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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Stanford List of Venture Capital and Private Equity Sources.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Social commerce is a thing – Over 76M people in the US will make a purchase via a social network at least once this year (38.4% of US social network users) according to Falcon.io’s 2021 digital marketing trends. Snap and Tiktok fighting for users (source: eMarketer ). Immersive ar/vr/xr.

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$43.2 Million That Can Help You

Growthink Blog

Now that summer is officially over, venture capital activity is picking up. I just reviewed the many companies who recently raised venture capital with an eye towards those that are offering products and services that could benefit other entrepreneurs and business owners. million led by Greycroft Partners and BV Capital.

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First Round Capital invests in SinglePlatform

This is going to be BIG.

For almost as long as I’ve been at First Round , we’ve been thinking a lot about the gap between the average experience of a local merchant and the huge marketing opportunity that the internet and social networks represent. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. Lobbying is ongoing by both the National Venture Capital Association and Angel Capital Association and James Geshwiler on the panel wrote a recent post on the ramification. Venture News. Steve Bennet.

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e(verywhere)-Commerce

This is going to be BIG.

I’m sure at some point, the best of these deals will be syndicated to Homerun , Groupon, Buywithme, etc., Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. and maybe those sites will eventually compete, paying for the right to run the best deals at the most highly sought after venues.

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