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The Startup Game ?? Then and Now!

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011 -- The Startup Game  Then and Now! Join SDVG for the September keynote breakfast with Bill Draper and Tim Draper. The father-son duo of Bill Draper and Tim Draper will share their inter-generational viewpoints on the venture capital business. The Startup Game  Then and Now!

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Genomatica Drops IPO Plans, Raises $41.5M

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The firm, which had filed for a $100M IPO in August of 2011, said in a withdrawal of its registration, that it has determined not to proceed with its IPO, "in light of current market conditions." The firm announced that instead, the company has raised $41.5M READ MORE>>.

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Local Startups Draw Far And Wide For Funding In Q4

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Among the top investors, some of the most active (500 Startups, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investment Partners) don't have local investment coverage. raised in Q4 of 2011, against the backdrop of an overall lull in venture capital activity for the year nationally. READ MORE>>.

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Active Network Plans Offering For Investors

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Those investors include ICG Holdings, TPG Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, TL Ventures, as well as others. The sales come around 9 months after Active Networks May 2011 IPO. In the filing, Active said it is planning to sell 1.5 per share.

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2011 May be the Year of the IPO for Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Draper III, in his new book titled “ The Startup Game.” According to Draper, in addition to the above Rule Number One, there are many other questions that need to be answered before a CEO should recommend to the board that it is time for an IPO: Do you really need the money?

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CapLinked Announces New Investors, Signs Up New Clients & Builds New Features

Tech Zulu Event

CapLinked didn’t just raise money but announced it had acquired several new clients, including Edwards Lifesciences, Draper and Kramer, and Proprietary Capital who join a growing and impressive roster of previously disclosed CapLinked clients such as Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital, and NextView Ventures.

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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

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The reason I was brought in, was because one of my board members, Tim Draper, who was a board member at my first company, encouraged me along with some of the other partners at Epic to come and spend a year there. We built that, and sold that to another, NASDAQ company, iManage, which sold to Autonomy, which is now HP.

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