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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0 There has already been at least one high profile funding from this class, which is Thread – a product that raised $1.2 Seems an obvious fit.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

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We caught up with Greg Brogger , the firm's CEO, to understand the service and how it might help private investors. Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0 trillion asset class we realized there was a real opportunity here. Explain how your service works?

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Interview with Ross Levinsohn, Velocity Interactive Group

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We have a world class team that can scout out the next great companies, and we can help them as much or as little as those companies like, those we'd definitely like to take more of an active role, because this is what we know. I spent a lot of time watching the evolution of Web 1.0,

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Elements of Sustainable Companies

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I guess this is how a world-class firm like Sequoia Capital finds and invests in world-class companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Agility Stealth and speed will usually help beat-out large companies. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit I think this list is spot on.

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Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.

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It was an “enterprise 2.0” panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web 2.0.”. Even from a young age, my experiences as president of my college fraternity were more formative in my experiences as an entrepreneur than my economics classes were. My political science degree was more helpful than my economics degree.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Be Best at Something

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When companies wanted first class advertising placement and high-end marketing technology, we were the place to come. Sure, we lost out on some of the low end business, but in the end, that actually helped the business survive the dot-com bubble burst. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advertising

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Im working with a top-notch, first class, A++ team ( Craig, Duc and Julie ) -- that just happened to fall into place. We are going to target the publishers, arm them with the smartest, most innovative technology and help them work more efficiently with all of the advertising networks and advertisers that are available to them today.