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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data. Swipely can even append transaction data with relevant information such as menus or store catalogs.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks. The site has since grown to nearly 7.5

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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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. They compete on features, price and execution. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. REAL information.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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My partnership was pretty bearish and scratched our heads a bit at price tags. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. It was a great learning time for me. tl;dr summary. We did not.

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