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TechForward Wins Lawsuit Against Best Buy

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TechForward sued Best Buy in February of 2011 , over Best Buy's creation of a near clone of TechForward's business. TechForward was venture backed by New Enterprise Associates and First Round Capital, and had initially launched its services in 2007.

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

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Stocks that have a lot of people trading are said to have a lot of liquidity , which basically means it’s really easy to get into (buy) or get out of (sell) the stock. Then you can do a little bit of research and find out that very few companies ever achieve this valuation in a trade sale so you’re clearly gunning for an IPO.

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With Reverse Merger, Miragen to go Public, Get $40M Boost From Investors

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The combined company will be roughly 96 percent owned by Miragen stockholders, keep the Miragen name, be based in Boulder, and trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “MGEN.” Miragen was formed in 2007 and raised an $8 million Series A round from Atlas and Boulder a year later.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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We talked about the flow of people with hedge fund backgrounds into these areas where units can now be traded rather than necessarily bought in a bespoke RFP (request for proposal) way. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Founded in 2007. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

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A 1997 vintage is likely to perform much better than a 2000 vintage because the former got to ride the dot com bonanza and likely saw some quick IPOs and crazy trade sales while the latter is more likely filled with many companies that never reached the promise land (or are still trying). A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011.

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How TVC Aims At Acquisitions, Not IPOs, with Jeb Spencer

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Our 2011 exits of Accordent Technologies and Del Mar Datatrac (DMD) put us in the top decile of performance for 2007 vintage year, private equity funds. The Accordent team spent less money on PR, fancy trade show booths and expensive management team members. The second reason is that we are a hybrid fund with a unique strategy.

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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Data centers are a strategic layer of the value chain: data center efficiencies and deployments are some of Google’s key competitive advantages and trade secrets. It’s not publicly known exactly when Google began developing Chrome and Chromium, but it must have been late 2006 or early 2007 since Chrome launched in September 2008.

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