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Getting Your Demos Right

Feld Thoughts

One of them, Oblong , as been working on spacial computing since John Underkoffler’s early research in the 1990′s at the MIT Media Lab. The demo is iconic and amazing, but it takes too long and is too abstract for their corporate customers buying Oblong’s Mezzanine product. Your next reaction is “I want one.”

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

If you’re from a major media outlet, please contact me to attend as a guest the pitch night in midtown Manhattan on June 27. For media and corporate sponsors interested in attending Pitch Night, contact Jennell Lynch, jlynch@naicpe.com. ###. Media Contacts. About Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

If you’re from a major media outlet, please contact me to attend as a guest the pitch night in midtown Manhattan on June 27. For media and corporate sponsors interested in attending Pitch Night, contact Jennell Lynch, jlynch@naicpe.com. ###. Media Contacts. About Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Tim O’Reilly, CEO, O’Reilly Media, argues , “Blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.” Mezzanine lending (a rough comparable) has a 18-23% required rate of return. If a company exceeds projected revenues, the effective rate increases. to 15.0%.

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This Friday at NYU-Annual Stern Private Equity Conference

David Teten

In addition, there will be 8 thematic panels: Leveraged Buyout, Real Estate, Energy, Distressed, Venture Capital & Growth, Media & Entertainment, Emerging Markets, and Limited Partners & Secondaries.

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Twitter Link Roundup #153 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! More than thirty percent of small businesses should quit using social media | Leaders West – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

One of the people I respect the most in the VC/PE media ecosystem is Dan Primack. Series C/D is the new Mezzanine. Because of this the first mention of a company in the press/media is usually concurrent with their Seed round financing announcement. Series A is the new Series B. (~6M-$15M Series B is the new Series C.