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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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Founded by James Reinhart out of Harvard Business School (semi finalist in annual business plan competition). Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Will become foundation for EMC’s Information Infrastructure business. Watch the show! We covered ‘em all. Venture Financing. ITA Software.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post).

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Student-Founded Fantasy Pollster Is Hoping To Pick The Next President

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The incentive for a voter to be well-informed is currently very low. While drafting the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, federal lawmakers intentionally carved out an exception for businesses like ours. Do you think your real competition will come from new sites or existing ones like PredictIt ?

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 What about your competition – how much do they charge? This information isn’t hard to find. This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice.

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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

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Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. And for some strange reason entrepreneurs didn’t share this information. It was accept the terms or go into bankruptcy so we took the money.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Page 3: Competition. My blog was wiped out. Can it really be a month since my last blog posting?

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StartupDemo Was a Huge Success!

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IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful.