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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). That will coincide with her developing her unique pipeline and starting to get a sense of her focus areas. Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures).

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. What do we like about OpenTable? ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video.

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Factual Opens New API

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The firm said it has launched a beta of its Factual Crosswalk API, which makes it easier to translate information about places into 3rd party APIs and websites. Los Angeles-based Factual , the big data startup headed by Gil Elbaz, said last night that it has launched a new API into beta.

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Interview With Brian McCarthy, Dentistry.com

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We created Dentistry.com as a destination for consumers, and a place where they can learn about dentistry, ask questions to dentists, interact with others, and find a dentist and book an appointment, all online. Talk a little bit about your startup-within-a-corporation, and how that came aboutand how independent are you able to be?

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Catalyzing Innovation In Pasadena, with Innovate Pasadena

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We caught up with Andy Wilson , who is behind the effort, to hear about why he thinks Pasadena needs its own technology identity. Even if you came to an event in Santa Monica, it''s so far away from this part of town, you''re already thinking about the challenges of getting home and how long it will take you. What is Innovate Pasadena?

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How Luxury Link Is Growing Its Travel Marketplace, With Scott Morrow

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Scott Morrow is an Internet and startup veteran, having run such companies as Oversee.net and ThisNext, and headed up product marketing for IAC/Citysearch. Talk about Luxury Link? The other important and exciting development is we''re introducing our brand to a new, younger group of visitors. I came out of that with two things.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. If you haven’t read my post about that, you should. I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. So they develop short-hand ways to qualify things better. Raising money is hard. Why buy me?

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