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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

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Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. The retention rates were low, which mean they could not invest in marketing like we can. What is Ulevate? What's different about our business model is to bring them customers.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. We spoke briefly about why.