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Lalawag Goes To Silicon Valley's Valley Girl

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Los Angeles gossip and technology blog Lalawag , run by Sean and Laurie Percival, has been sold. The blog--which the Percivals had announced on September 16th that they would shut down--has been acquired by Valley Girl Inc. , a publication that is run by Jesse Draper, the daughter of venture capitalist Tim Draper.

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DFJ Co-Founder Jurvetson Exits Firm Amid Harassment Charges

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Steve Jurvetson, co-founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), confirmed via a Twitter post Monday that he has left the Sand Hill Road firm, where he has long focused on emerging technologies, from genomics to space exploration.

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Interview with Julie Novack, PartySlate

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I'd see these wedding blogs, but I thought, there has got to be more. He introduced me to Wavemaker, also in LA, and also Halogen Ventures, which is led by Jessie Draper, which invests in women-run technology companies. Julie Novack: The number one lesson learned, maybe it's obvious, is you need to have your technology in house.

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SPECIAL REPORT: 2019 Blockchain Outlook — Reality Check

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After a breakout year in 2017, the blockchain sector suffered a series of blows in 2018, from crashing cryptocurrency prices to increased regulatory scrutiny of crypto ventures and deepening skepticism about whether the technology was actually useful.

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Review: Inside the House of Lies at Theranos

Xconomy

These can be positive attributes in an entrepreneur, but in a more rational world, technology investors wouldn’t overvalue them. Fearlessness. Ruthless focus. Risk capital would be allocated based mostly on evidence, data, progress towards milestones—in short, on proof. In the real world, of course, proof is hard to come by.

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Graphcore Scores $200M to Scale Up A.I. Chip Production

Xconomy

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies.

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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks

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