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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

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I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. At Upfront, our partners have been fortunate enough to be part of 18 companies that have reached north of $1 billion and the average tenure of an investment that exits at this scale is more than 10 years. Why does that matter?

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Interview with Kevin O'Connor, FindTheBest.com

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billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Examples of that are if you're looking for a credit card, looking for antivirus software, or summer camp for the kids, or colleges. Kevin O'Connor: I've been really fortunate in life, in that I love technology, and love solving problems.

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Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

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Since its origin as an academic research project in 2007, Eucalyptus has become the dominant open source cloud solution, boasting over 25,000 clouds formed. Although Eucalyptus is still a relatively small company from a personnel standpoint, it already counts twenty one of the Fortune 100 as it customers.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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LegalZoom Founder Brian Liu Talks About His New Legal Startup, BizCounsel

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I thought it was about time to do something about that, to make sure small business ownersnot just multi-million and billion dollar, Fortune 500 companiescould have access to all of the benefits and protection of the law. I was at LegalZoom until last year, and I was the CEO of the company for its first seven years, from 2000 to 2007.

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Interview with Peter Hoskins, ManiaTV

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Los Angeles-based ManiaTV (www.maniatv.com) is one of the companies, having moved here in 2007 from Denver to take advantage of the local talent. We sell advertising and have been very fortunate to have the best brands advertise on our network. Peter Hoskins: In 2007, we took a fantastic soundstage at Pico and Fairfax.

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

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I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). Fortune Brainstorm. I don’t need to name companies for you to come up with your own examples. And we live in public so many people are able just to reach out. Web Summit.