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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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We started the company in the fall of 2006, launched in 2007, and have been offering our services to all kinds of mission critical websites since then. I think that's what is the main foundational element of a Web 2.0 We're privately funded today, with some equity from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

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Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing. We came to it, because we'd been around private equity, and it's always surprised me how inefficient the marketplace is.

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

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When I first got into the industry it was 2007. I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. Yesterday was a Monday.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. It was 2007. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, And I had all the VCs play head games with me. Don’t go into VC.”. I was baffled.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. It was 2007. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, And I had all the VCs play head games with me. Don’t go into VC.”. I was baffled.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Stay Positive

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. ► March (1) Office 2.0: It could take only one moment of negativity to ruin months or years of positive equity. Tell Your Friends Subscribe Newer Post Older Post Home No Comment Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Chocolate Candy Web 2.0 Where's Jack Bauer? All that powered by positivity. But be careful.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register?

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. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Smart move on Googles part and congratulations to the geniuses at the private equity firms (Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity) that identified this hole in the market and bought DoubleClick for a fraction of what they sold it for. Where's Jack Bauer?

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