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Surf Air Acquires Rise, Backed By New Funding

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Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. Surf Air said it would work over the next 90 days to transition the RISE brand and experience into Surf Air, and that it eventually plans to merge the two networks, although it did not give firm dates on that merged service.

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AdventureLink Buys Competitor, Get Investment

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Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Denver-based Adventure Central provides a search engine and services for finding adventure travel. AdventureLink is also venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners and The Mail Room Fund. AdventureLink is also venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners and The Mail Room Fund.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. -DST invested $180mm last fall. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

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Whether it is launching a website, developing a minimum viable product, making strategic acquisitions or building out your sales team the founder must have a firm understanding of what it is they want to accomplish, the value it will create and how long the milestone will take to accomplish. Does your business model scale?

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I think everybody heard about this acquisition. 2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. M&A Discussion. Atebits dba Tweetie (acquired by Twitter). Twitter bough their most used iPhone client.

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Interview with Kelly Tompkins, AdventureLink

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The round came from Anthem Venture Partners and the Mail Room Fund. Their idea was to catch enough consumers to scale, but they didn't understand the cost of acquisition, of finding customers, marketing, and advertising. Tags: tompkins travel interview entrepreneur adventurelink services kelly adventure.

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