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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Remember the whole controversy over Facebook’s Beacon product where a guy bought an engagement ring for his wife and it was published to a stream and ruined the surprise ? So my gut says this will be a youth-oriented product. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. Wildfire Interactive.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. The Exit Problem.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008. A version of this article appeared October 5, 2012, on page M1 in the U.S.