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Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks

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They “don’t care what people ate for lunch.&# They’re fine on their existing social networks, which these days mostly means they’re happy with Facebook. Traditional social networks are more restricted to people whom I already know and information and updates are less discoverable.

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Julie Schoenfeld On Perfect Market's New Funding

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This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Congrats on funding. Right now, news organizations write off the news cycle. In our last round of funding, Tribune led the round.

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Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs?

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The truth is I have been thinking a lot about the topic, I just haven’t been writing about it. But this coming generation is much more likely to be inspired by The Social Network and want to be entrepreneurs. I plan to write about this phenomenon soon. But then the truth sets in. Even at 18. Back to women.

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Don’t Try to “Pull an Instagram.” Here’s Why …

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…” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along with Twitter. It’s understandably on everybody’s mind these days.

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Why Your Startup is More Likely to Succeed if You’re Authentic and Passionate

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Yet along with “authenticity” they are two of the key attributes I look for when I meet with companies I may consider funding one day. This is how Upfront Ventures came to fund Tristan Walker – one of the most talented and passionate entrepreneurs with whom we work whose new company is called Bevel. And we did.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Others I have not.

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

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Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018. More on that later.