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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Interview with Robert Blatt, MomentFeed

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By the end of 2012, Rob had done a really great job of identifying the opportunity, and being a visionary on how social, local, and mobile would change how consumers engaged with brands. That allowed us to bring in a new investor, Level Equity, and we raised a little over $16M in capital to scale the business.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. THE FULL STORY.

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

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It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. The idea immediately resonated.

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Interview with Scott Cannon, CEO of BigRentz

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Cloud Capital--has managed to coax those equipment rental yards into the digital age, and how the company has tackled other challenges in focusing its business. Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages. Cloud Capital. BigRentz is based in Irvine.

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RebelMouse Raises $10.25 Million In Series A Funding For Growth

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million from Oak and SoftBank Capital , betaworks, First Round Capital , Lerer Ventures , New Enterprise Associates with participation from individual investors to help it power its client’s sites. Based in New York, RebelMouse is set to use the $10.25 The firm previously raised $2.5 ” Phenomenal Growth.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

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Monday, August 27th, 2012. ” The new mansion will reportedly be inhabited mostly by Tyler, who will use it as his home base while launching West Coast operations of the brothers’ new NYC-based venture capital firm , Winklevoss Capital. Advertise Here. Advertise Here. © 2012 AOL Inc.

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