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TCA Stresses Mixers, New Website

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The Tech Coast Angels is stressing its mixer program, seed investment efforts, and a new website, as it kicks off a 2010 program, according to the angel investing group. Tags: tech coast angels funding venture capital seed fund. READ MORE>>.

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Feel Lost On LinkedIn? ExploreB2B Wants To help You Network With People Of Your Profession

Tech Zulu Event

We launched the first publicly available (German) Beta Version of exploreB2B at the end of 2010. Any funding yet? We received seed funding from Investitionsbank Berlin , a state bank investing in innovation and technological advancements. When was it launched and where? Who are its founders? Any strategic partnerships?

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. Michael Kleist: We''re seed funded, and have already raised money from twelve investors. Once you know the space, China really helps entrepreneurs.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Startups With Real Revenue Can Get Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

billion jump in funding over the same quarter of 2010 with a similar number of deals, so it clearly shows a trend to larger deal sizes for fewer startups. Sure, there is always some seed funding (10% of overall deal flow), but you can bet that this money goes to entrepreneurs who have been there before and won.

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What is it Like to Negotiate a VC Round?

Both Sides of the Table

The truth is that I’ve been warning about convertible notes since 2010 it was first declared that “convertible notes have won.” In the old days there usually weren’t convertible notes on early-stage deals and there weren’t party rounds with 20 angels or 6 seed funds.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010. In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. Read more: TechCrunch.