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How More Women Are Becoming Angel Investors, with Eva Yazhari

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Venture and angel investing has long been considered a man''s world--with domination of the industry, executives, financiers, and others by men, with only a few exceptions. The Pipeline Fellowship--founded by Natalia Oberti Noguera--says it has been running angel investing bootcamps for women, looking to active more female angel investors.

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Len Short (Red)ily Discusses Google, Bono & Steve Jobs

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He was kind enough to conduct a video interview from his car. You can watch my interview with Len below or on YouTube here: [link]. In this capacity he worked with U2′s Bono, as well as Steve Jobs and a number of other notable celebrities whom Len encouraged to lend their brand equity to bolster RED’s cause.

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Tubestart: Tapping The Power Of The Crowd To Support Online Video

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Unlike the thirty five different categories on sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter, we only have video projects and YouTubers who need to raise money. We''d invested a lot of money in that, uploading clips to Youtube, and that went very well. Josef Holm: Equity-based crowdfunding. What''s Tubestart? What''s next for you?

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AirPush's Asher Delug: Bootstrapping Your Way To $100M

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Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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Interview with Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. Nick Hedges: Level Equity led the most recent round, have Sigia Ventures in Menlo Park, and we have DFJ Frontier, those are the main investors, but we do have a variety of other investors. Nick Hedges: It was almost exactly a year ago.

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Interview with Scott Cannon, CEO of BigRentz

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Our interview this morning is with Scott Cannon , the CEO of BigRentz (www.bigrentz.com), which is creating an online marketplace for big equipment--an industry known notoriously as not adopting new technology. We sold that to a very large private equity company. We went a little too fast, and took on too many categories at first.

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