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Lindzon Gets Exit At Lifelock

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Lindzon said it was an early angel investor in the company, and made his investment in 2006 at "well under a $10M valuation". Lindzon said he sold half his shares on SecondMarket in 2010. LifeLock has its IPO this morning, pricing at $9 per share and giving it a valuation of around $900M. and $11.50

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014. With seed up massively between 2006–2014 and A and B rounds relatively flat what you see is a widening of the funnel going into traditional venture.

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Map of VC Investments

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Some very interesting graphics including this heat map: Very cool visualization tool!

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Pricing engine helps publishers ascertain ad inventory pricing by analyzing ad transaction data from the market/exchanges. MetaMarkets.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

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Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. – That’s a tough question that as of 2010 is a hard to know for certain. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011.

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Interview with Jim Carol, DonateGames.org

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However, in 2006, my own son got cancer, and I was thrown into the sad state of affairs that goes into that. It kept growing and growing on a grassroots basis, and by 2010, it had just taken off. if we don't have it in stock, you can use our crawler/spider and get guaranteed lowest prices, and still help people less fortunate.

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StartupDemo Is Shaping Up Nicely

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Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK. Event Details: When: Wednesday, Sept 22nd, 2010 - 5:00 p.m. Price: FREE. to 11:00 p.m. Where: Wokcano, 1413 5th Street, Santa Monica, CA. What: A Startup Demo event. RSVP: [link].