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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

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This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all. It’s amazing to me that a company that just a little over 5 years ago was struggling to attract capital at much more than $100 million valuation can now ACQUIRE companies for this amount. Entrada Ventures? —?that

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How the New York City innovation community can still lose (and what you can do about it)

This is going to be BIG.

But I am also someone who is very colored by my past experience of seeing the venture implosion after the first bubble and walking through the fundraising tumbleweed of late 2008. I'm all for people putting $25k to work to try something out--and if it works, having the momentum to raise more capital.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Competitors: Gowalla.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. Here’s a summary of our interview.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. Fundraising for the Series A looked like it was going to be difficult--and that''s when Rich Levendov from Avalon Ventures stepped in. Venture Capital & Technology' It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky.

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VCs at Freestyle, Plexo Capital and Sequoia join Startup Battlefield judges

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Prior to joining Sequoia, Chen worked at Emergence Capital and McKinsey. The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups. The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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I had an hour to interview Mike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures. This lasted from about 2001-2004. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Venture Financings we Discussed. Competitors: Google.

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