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The Most Important Political Show on TV

Both Sides of the Table

We have reduced our discussion to a reality TV show or People Magazine and thus we debate the price of Marco Rubio’s shoes, the length of Hillary Clinton’s bathroom breaks and whether being born in Canada should exclude Ted Cruz from the presidency. The featured a leading analyst from a bank who has been writing on the topic lately.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% And it’s driving up prices beyond their inherent value.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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The Future of Couponing | How Social-Local-Mobile has Changed the Game

Tech Zulu Event

The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. Statistics from 2008 show that digital couponing has rapidly grown but has yet to outpace paper coupons.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. The spending contraction is inevitable in a period of declining real prices of housing, high unemployment and tightening credit. We took $2.3

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Will People Ever Be Comfortable Sharing Data Online?

Startup Professionals Musings

His latest study breaks the online consumer audience into the following four categories, based on their level of comfort with sharing personal information, likes, and needs online: High-comfort consumers – 12 percent. They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data.

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March Capital Partners' Jim Armstrong On A New, $240M Venture Fund

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We'd do a Series A, and participate in the Series B, but when companies hit breakout, we would call a late stage VC and have them price the deal, and do all of that. Post 2008, LPs abhor illiquidity. If you thought about our last funds, where we came from, we were very conventional.