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A Seed Fund Grows in Brooklyn: Announcing Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

It is the first venture capital fund based in Brooklyn--the city’s most exciting and creative borough. In fact, it’s what Henry Blodget told me I should do the first time I met him--back in May of 2007 during a pre-Business Insider lunch at Coffee Shop.

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Spotting, Nurturing and Mentoring Talent – The Power of Troy Carter

Both Sides of the Table

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. The history of tech will always tell you there was a defining moment for companies (like Twitter at SXSW in 2007) but the reality is often more nuanced. Same with Gaga. “It was a series of inflection points.

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

Both Sides of the Table

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate.

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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

StartupNation

businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. The economists who conducted the study analyzed administrative government data on the founders of all U.S.

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Playbook, which aims to be the ‘Dropbox for designers,’ raises $4M in round led by Founders Fund

TechCrunch

Finance teams were constantly needing them for things like creating pitch decks. Plus, in his view, there has been very little innovation in cloud storage since Dropbox launched in 2007. . “We spent a lot of money on photo shoots because we couldn’t find new things, or people would have to recreate designs,” she said. .