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At The Pool Courts Millennials With New Social Discovery App

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At The Pool is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Canyon Creek Capital, and angels. social networking millenials discovery atthepool' Capecelatro--who is 25--said that eight five percent of At The Pool''s members are under the age of thirty five. READ MORE>>.

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Insights and Opinions: Idealab and the Bill Gross Legacy

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For today's Insights and Opinions section, we thought we'd share a recent article penned by Clearstone Ventures' William Quigley. as a social network for brands, but I still dont think Bill gets nearly enough credit for just how completely innovative Idealabs model and output was during the time I was there to witness it all.

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Web 1.0 Entrepreneurs: we are roadkill unless we learn to run as fast as today’s founders.

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They did it entirely through social networking. Capital to date? $20k Get Angel capital and build a prototype. Many, many thanks to Jim Armstrong of Clearstone who insisted that I needed visit an incubator or two. “I told you so” doesn’t begin to cover it. No wonder they just raised $1mm.

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Venture Conference Highlights SoCal Startups

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David Sacks, one of the co-founders of PayPal, pitched Geni.com, an online site focused on both family trees and social networking. READ MORE>>

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Interview with Phil Ressler, BigStage Entertainment

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We spoke with Phil Ressler--a former venture capitalist from Clearstone Ventures--who is now CEO of BigStage. They want a means of representing themselves that is animated, and changeable, and actively communicates in places like MySpace, Facebook, and other social networks. Venture capital seemed the obvious way to do that.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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He is currently a Managing Director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund and sits on the boards of IMI Exchange, Xfire, Playsino, ExpressCoin, GoCoin, FGL, Spicy Horse Games, KnCMiner.cn, Robocoin China and the Mastercoin Foundation. Mr. Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc.,

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