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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. Here's how you can prevent this NYC renaisannce from being a forest fire: Fail fast. If it doesn't, you pack up your marbles and go home to try something else.

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

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-Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Competitors: Gowalla. Kontagent. -A

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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. Confidence is good, cockiness is not. •

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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. Total raised: $18.3mm.

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Why venture capitalists are investing in international startups

David Teten VC

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Venture capitalists like us are investing in three overlapping models of international startups: Companies founded overseas. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Companies founded by immigrants.

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5 questions emerging managers should ask before selecting LPs

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Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. They controlled distribution to the masses. then bought GeoCities for $3.6