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Making The Most Of Your Business Capital

YoungUpstarts

You have a vendor network, you’ve touched up customer interactions, and you think the premise of your eatery is primed for success. While you may not be making feature films, the right tools can make an investment into video production a worthy expense. Specialize your equipment.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

40% of our deals are done in Los Angeles but 100% of our deals leverage the LA networks we have built for 25 years. We do deals in NYC, Paris, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, London?—?but We have a team of 7 in San Francisco (a counter bet on our belief that the Bay Area is an amazing place.)

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Trover, A Mobile Location-Based Discovery Network

YoungUpstarts

Trovers are passionate about sharing the unique things they uncover while exploring their cities or far away places,” says Jason Karas, CEO of Seattle, Washington-based Trover. Trover CEO Jason Karas. People find fulfillment in introducing something remarkable to another person.

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Announcing our investment in DemandStar, a marketplace for government procurement  

Version One Ventures

The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce – it connects local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. . Today we’re excited to announce that we led DemandStar ’s $2m seed round. It should come as no surprise that government procurement is riddled with inefficiency.

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The 4 Best Cities In America For Startups

YoungUpstarts

If you really want to make it, you need to go somewhere that allows you to network with the thriving tech community. Seattle might not be the biggest city on the map, but it’s got a reach that extends to all corners of the globe. With luck, we might even make some money doing it. There is just one problem – you can’t do it alone.

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The 20 Coolest CoWorking Spaces In The U.S.

YoungUpstarts

For workers who feel like nomads, drifting from Seattle coffee shops to libraries to living room couches, Office Nomads offers a space for “individuality without isolation.” Right near Microsoft’s campus in Seattle, Thinkspace is a cool coworking spot for startups. Office Nomads. Thinkspace. Metrix Create:Space.