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Bonfire Ventures Launches $60M Venture Capital Fund

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Accoding to Bonfire, it invests in early stage startups with a software-based product and a business buyer, and will make seed state investments with a typical initial check size of $1M, with initial investments as low as $250,000 and as high as $1.5M.

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Report: Snapchat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook

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According to the WSJ--citing "people briefed on the matter"--Snapchat turned down the offer after Chinese e-commerce firm Tencent offered to lead an investment valuing the company at $4 billion. snapchat merger acquisition exit facebook tencent mobile' READ MORE>>.

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What Mattered in 2012: Howard Marks, StartEngine

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. As the founder of an accelerator, I'm constantly being approached by ambitious people with big ideas, and generally we invest in 1/100th of what comes to us. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Patrick Kennedy, Sidebar

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For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content.

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What Mattered in 2010: Jim Andelman, Rincon Ventures

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All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. Also, we had an investment in a company that went public this year, BroadSoft, which is one of 2010's best-performing IPOs. 1) Mobile web. I'll list three, not necessarily in order. (1)

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Digiday Mobile: The Future Of Mobile Media Live

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TechZulu will be streaming Digiday : Mobile live from 8:00am - 5:00pm PST Monday 3/8. Checkout this amazing lineup of keynotes, panels, and talks during this high-level full day event. Checkout this amazing lineup of keynotes, panels, and talks during this high-level full day event. Presenter: Scott A. Presenter: Scott A.

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Putting Tom Perkins Comments into Context

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There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. ” “ end quote (some people on mobile devices having a hard time seeing where quote starts / ends so I want to be sure I’m not attributed with Mr. Perkins letter).

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