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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTĂș

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As you may know we co-lead the first round of financing of Maker Studios, the largest overall producer for online video content, along with Greycroft Partners. This was a marked change from the previous leadership of YouTube. She then toured all of the YouTube networks themselves and started forming relationships.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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He grew up in Colombia, South America. ” Well, I really wanted to be a general partner but there weren’t a lot of general partner openings. They said, “We’re going to go raise another fund, and when we raise the next fund, we’d like to bring you on as a partner.”

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Argentina Entrepreneurship, Endeavor, and Global Lessons

Reid Hoffman

As part of connecting with local Argentinian entrepreneurs and part of the amazing Endeavor networks here and South America, Wences and I recorded a podcast to share what I and Silicon Valley can learn from the robust entrepreneurial ecosystem down here.

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Why The Next Generation of Online Video Companies Will be Vertical

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Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. So Latino may be the single best vertical – but it certainly isn’t niche any longer.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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He not only has experience in dealing with the carriers where at JAMDAT he established all the carrier relationships but he also led the international expansion of JAMDAT in Europe, Asia & South America giving them a footprint in 40 countries. I fell in love with the team immediately as did my partners. I can do that.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Girls in Tech London picked the top women in 19 countries – the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Greece and Israel – on the basis of their leadership and excellence in innovation and technology.

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Bitesize Monday: eToro, Covertix, Iway, Tawkon, Grouper
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million from Mangrove Partners. Foreign direct investment in Israel - Caught between the need to raise interest rates to cool an overheating domestic economy and the threat that rate hikes will attract more foreign “hot money”, the Bank of Israel—like many of its counterparts in South America and elsewhere—is now trying capital controls.