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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

One way to grab some cash and learn valuable entrepreneurial skills along the way is to launch mini-ventures or Venturettes. Entrepreneurs create opportunities by creating ripples, and mini-ventures are great ripple creators. Three examples of mini-ventures carried out by me and my fellow Wharton classmates are described below.

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. And what we think about Sequoia’s website , First Round Capital’s and True Ventures (we both like to copy stuff from True). Current round: $10mm in Series B by Norwest (lead), Storm Ventures and Adams Capital.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. They controlled distribution to the masses. Enter Facebook.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures. For every layer if I mention companies please don’t assume that I’m suggesting there aren’t other players in that category. Let’s say you wanted to launch Yelp today. Let me explain. We all know about IMDB.

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