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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. In business you spend your life in email. Because email works!

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. ” When merchants sign up MyTime then helps them with marketing activities through marketing automation tools they’ve build across SEM, social, and email. The company was called Red Beacon. Nice sweep!

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

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If you’re working at a startup and the founding team is promising that they’ll “get around to creating an employee stock option plan&# soon – demand it now. Second – don’t send unsolicited emails to VCs. Bad behavior but prevalent. Minutes 11-16 in the video. <<