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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. 11:40-14:15). Tell us more about MetaCafe? (37:00-40:30).

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. Thus is venture capital. My blog was wiped out.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post).

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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

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Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. website allowed engineers and engineering firms in the industry to advertise their products online, posts events, and. If you want to participate in.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves.

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

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For example, when Tumblr announced it would roll out Post+, a paid subscription product, the company used fan fiction writers as an example of a content creator who could profit from the product. But monetizing fan fiction through online platforms is a trickier matter.

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