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Energica CEO plots her Italian EV company’s reboot from lockdown

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From lockdown in her Northern Italy home, Cevolini shared perspective on the future of motorcycling, acquisition offers and plans to recharge her company when the COVID-19 crisis subsides. The venture is also one of the few e-motorcycle companies drawing engineering tips from competition. MotoE Worldcup racing, Image Credits: Energica.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia. Factoid: 99% of its employees are musicians.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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From Groupon Payments to Acquiring Savored To Up Its Yield Management

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However, Savored says it will continue to serve diners and restaurants independently even with the acquisition and is giving a free 30 day trial for new merchants. percent per swipe to beat the competition. Savored is a win for both merchant as they get their restaurant tables full as we dine while an automatic discount awaits us.

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What is the Right Amount of Money to Raise at a Startup?

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But there are also problems / risks: - the funding environment might change dramatically – there may never be a next round (see: March 2000, September 11, 2001 and September 2008). - there may be major competitive changes in the market that makes your next funding round hard (e.g. It should pop out of your business plan. -

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008.

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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Data centers are a strategic layer of the value chain: data center efficiencies and deployments are some of Google’s key competitive advantages and trade secrets. So they skipped over those steps of the value chain, and purchased Android in 2005 (launched in 2008) to backwards integrate to the OS layer. The post Why Google Fiber?

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