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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Of course it’s much harder to identify “emerging managers” who it turns out have been some of the best performers over the past 5-7 years such as Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, First Round Capital, True Ventures, Greycroft, Foundry Group, Thrive and Upfront Ventures. .” The iPhone was released.

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Explaining FNAC: Feature, Not a Company

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We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. But of course tens of thousands of people saw the headline while probably 10% of them or less watched the video. It’s about 10 minutes long. It’s a fun 10-minute interview that you might enjoy watching.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem. Today’s Normalization.

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

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I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. LinkedIn – Lots of people talk about LinkedIn as a social network. Of course I could go on and on including businesses like AirBnB, DropBox, Box.net, Yammer and so on. All deflationary.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 This is the same with competing activity streams in various social networks.

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