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KPCB has already blown through much of the $600 million it raised last year

TechCrunch LA

Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. “Everybody thinks valuations are too high since 2011 and people are thinking there’s going to be a recession.

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Apple Patent Trial Goes to Jury | Why Fight When You Can License

Tech Zulu Event

Filed by California inventor Richard Ditzik in 2011, the lawsuit asserts that Apple’s iPhone 4 infringes on Ditzik’s patent 7,103,380, “Wireless handset communications system” The patent, filed in 1997, claims in part a handset device that sends email and communicates with multiple networks at varying power levels.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

Both Sides of the Table

That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. Would Microsoft have been such a powerful global business if IBM had recognized the importance of software as an independent phenomenon from hardware? That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails. It is good, steady, old-fashioned hard work.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara on Nimble, The Microsoft Accelerator, And The Cloud

socalTECH

Nimble's software connects to your email, social accounts, and more, and helps you track your customers, sales prospects, sales pipeline, and much much more. Businesses in 2009, 2010, and 2011, when they wanted to start a business, they didn't buy a Novell or use Exchange. They used Gmail and Gsuite for email and calendar.

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

SoCal CTO

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011."