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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

Both Sides of the Table

It is the oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria that is Tweeted before people even know a disruption may happen. And even in this growth equity round led by Insight Partners we asked for our full prorata investment and took as much as we were allowed to. We knew we had a winner.

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Strategy Roundtable: Fall Call To Action

ReadWriteStart

In How Not To Sell Equity Too Cheap, Too Soon , entrepreneurs would find a discussion of what we recommend when it comes to selling incubation-stage equity. There were people from Argentina, Israel, India, France, New York, Washington, Nigeria, etc. You can listen to the recording of today's roundtable here.

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Why International Startups Love NY, and NY VCs Love International Startups

David Teten

To date, out of 17 companies, HOF Capital has backed 7 founding teams with roots in underrepresented regions: Egypt, Latin America, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey. At HOF Capital , we are particularly interested in investing in companies with international roots. In addition, two of our companies (12%) have female CEOs/cofounders.)