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Parabol Takes $8M From Microsoft, Others For Agile Meetings

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Los Angeles-based Parabol, a company which is developing technology to enable "Agile" meetings, announced that it has raised $8M in its Series A funding. The funding was led by Microsoft's M12 venture fund, and also included CRV, Haystack, Techstars, and others. million contract with the Defense Department.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). And the contractions always come back. Competitive (Athlete: skier & rowed at Princeton, hates losing at everything she does).

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 2/13/2015.

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Dauntless Takes Flight with New Business Model for Starting Biotechs

Xconomy

First came Inception Sciences , a holding company for spinning out biotech startups established by Versant Ventures and Peppi Prasit, the veteran San Diego drug developer. Dauntless says its simplified business structure is more capital-efficient, and there are important tax advantages for investors and other stakeholders.

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4 Startup Mega Campuses Coming to Europe

Tech.Co

As the founding head of Campus London , Google’s first physical hub for startups and now home to over 80,000 registered members, I thought it would be interesting to share the latest developments in this space from my perspective. Corporate partners include Google for Entrepreneurs, Deutsche Bank, Deloitte, Lakestar Ventures.

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Don’t Let Faux Unicorns Screw Up Your Financing

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Although mega rounds with high valuations can be an effective way for large VC firms to efficiently deploy their capital, this approach can actually decrease a startup’s chances of success. Social Contracts Are The Foundation Of Successful Partnerships. For you, the impact of a negative outcome is far more tangible and dramatic.

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