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TradeYa Gets $1.1M

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in a venture capital funding, to launch its social platform for trading goods and services. TradeYa''s platform focuses on letting users trade electronics, gift cards, sporting equipment, vacation homes, as well as services like cooking, web design, medical care, and more. The startup is led by Jared Krause. READ MORE>>.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

As a fourteen-year veteran of the venture industry I have often heard the phrase, “value added investors”, which is usually touted by certain VC’s as their biggest differentiating quality.

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Mark Suster Invests In Treehouse

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Mark Suster , the highly visible venture capitalist blogger at GRP Partners, has invested in UK-based TreeHouse , an online, video-focused site for helping users learn web design and development. Other investors in the firm include Kevin Rose, Reid Hoffman, David Sze, Josh Elman, and Chamath Palihapitiya.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

As a fourteen-year veteran of the venture industry I have often heard the phrase, “value added investors”, which is usually touted by certain VC’s as their biggest differentiating quality.

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LaunchpadLA Application Deadline Nears, As Class Graduates

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails. The company’s CEO, Brendon McQueen, graduated from Columbia with 12 loans that totaled over $120,000.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

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Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . The web is constantly changing—ne. Entrepreneurism / Monetization collaboration, Side-Projects, web design. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Pitch Session, Startups / Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital (VC) / Angels / Investors. .

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