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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. Competition: Gilt Groupe , Ideeli , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , OneKingsLane , department stores like Saks and Neiman Marcus. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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We all have one-click purchase power (Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay). The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Why is this? more than 5 years ago?—?and

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

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I’d like to offer you two “life hacks&# that I implemented in 2009 and one that I’m test driving in 2010. They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. OK, before you all tell me about Google Voice, let me say the following. Unfortunately I was wrong.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

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 Also, you mentioned an interesting rails session that you attended last month about security, and we've been studying Google's web app security guidelines. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind. Horvitz, is pictured above at left with founding members of the partnership, Francesca Rossi, IBM; Yann LeCun, Facebook; and Mustafa Suleyman, Google/DeepMind.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! As you can see below, investments have skyrocketed – up 300% since 2009.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.