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APRIL 23, 2011

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. How did the experience of pitching Iron Planet to investors affect you as a VC? In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I’m not looking to invest there – I’m looking to understand the trends, the people, the innovation, the regions and how China can become an integral part of any of my portfolio companies as they scale. Were their consultants? In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I’m not looking to invest there – I’m looking to understand the trends, the people, the innovation, the regions and how China can become an integral part of any of my portfolio companies as they scale. Were their consultants? In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. It just so happened that the consultant they hired to chose a software vendor worked for a company that had owned one of our competitors. Were their consultants? The momentum had shifted.

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