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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

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????????????. [link] My email list for “unbloggable” thoughts and ideas – Venture Sprout. [.] link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.] [link] Tweets that mention Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog — Topsy.com. [.] that we would have received.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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It’s just getting easier to raise early rounds and harder to raise later rounds,” says Y Combinator’s Paul Graham over email, hewing to the latter view that this has merely become startup life in the Valley. “That’s independent of how much money VCs have or how many companies funded. November 29, 2012.