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Congrats To The Presenting StartupDemo Companies!

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InVenture has created a market for "micro venture capital," whereby everyday investors can provide expansion capital to developing businesses. Current event planning tools (Facebook Events, Evite, Socializr) aren't useful for casual events, and don't let friends plan collaboratively. Organizing a group of friends is hard!

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How Classy Is Helping Nonprofits To Attract and Retain Supporters

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Scott Chisolm: The software came about, when we realized we had totally outgrown the system we were using to take registration for the events and to allow attendees to make donation, which was a combination of Evite, Paypal, and Myspace. The lead was Mithril Capital, the investment firm of Peter Thiel, and the co-lead was Salesforce Ventures.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. It would take 2 years to catch up but believe me they have the capital to do so. Want to eradicate Evite? I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand. TripAdvisor?

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Interview with Eden Jarrin, eDivvy

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The organizer might have a friend's birthday, and have five or six people who might want to go in on a gift like a Wii or and iPod, and you can custom pick a card--just like an Evite--custom card invitations which you can make look realy cool and where you can pick a theme--and you put in the information. How is this company backed?

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StartupDemo Was a Huge Success!

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InVenture has created a market for "micro venture capital," whereby everyday investors can provide expansion capital to developing businesses. Current event planning tools (Facebook Events, Evite, Socializr) aren't useful for casual events, and don't let friends plan collaboratively. Organizing a group of friends is hard!

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TechZulu Live from StartupDemo

Tech Zulu Event

InVenture has created a market for "micro venture capital," whereby everyday investors can provide expansion capital to developing businesses. Current event planning tools (Facebook Events, Evite, Socializr) aren't useful for casual events, and don't let friends plan collaboratively. Organizing a group of friends is hard!

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Cocodot Gets $4.25M More

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Los Angeles-based Cocodot , the online invitations service run by former MySpace exec Shawn Gold, has raised $4.25M out of an ongoing $6.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Source of the new funding was not disclosed.

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