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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital.

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FairClaims Finds $1.8M For Online Dispute Resolution

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The funding came on top of an earlier, $285,000 in seed funding the company received from Brian Liu (co-founder of legalzoom), Mark Goldstein, and Mark Goines (NOLO, Intuit Turbotax). FairClais said its software provides claims management, chat, settlement, mediation, and other capabilities. FairClaims is led by CEO Stephen Kane.

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Early-stage investment firm Defy updates the venture partner model

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Shoedazzle and LegalZoom; and Patel, whose deep background in enterprise software comes from years spent as a co-founder and executive of Isilon Systems and later at EMC, are “longtime friends of the firm” according to an interview with both Sequeira and Vassallo.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Elect 1-2 representatives and even invite a local VC to invest personally and sit on the investment committee or be an advisor.

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Interview with Jeff Zwelling, Convertro

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Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. One of the venture capitalists we had met along the way, hearing that we had sold YLighting, asked us what we were doing now, and because they liked the software so much told us to count him in, he'd write a check right now, and that's what we did.

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