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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit FAST

Eric Greenspan

Our Director of Flow, Heather Burlesci will be attending these courses as she is looking to build up her skills in this area. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I of course agreed to get involved. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, A great trade!

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

Our Director of Flow, Heather Burlesci will be attending these courses as she is looking to build up her skills in this area. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I of course agreed to get involved. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, A great trade!

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

socalTECH

Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. The large acquirers, the Microsoft and Yahoo''s of the world, were buying 20-40 companies a year. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. Their only option is an IPO.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! And now, of course, UberSocial, Bill’s latest project. Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Of course I have. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! Venture Capital.