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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Leading Visual Content Creation App Developer Lightricks Raises $130 Million Series D

The Startup Magazine

The creator economy has changed the way we, as a society, experience social networks. At a time when we are seeing content creators monetize content on social media at new levels, it is clear that Lightricks’ platform has the ability to create a one-stop shop that will be meaningful to its users.”. Startup Journey.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. innovation in the U.S. China now has plenty of both.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. innovation in the U.S. China now has plenty of both.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. By 2015 we see more than 50 million femtocells being shipped annually with WCDMA femtocells making up the bulk of the market,&# Aditya Kaul, of Mobile Networks, ABI Research, said.