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

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. I know in 2010 this doesn’t seem obvious to everybody but it’s my judgment.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

I don’t think my unwillingness to use it is generational (as in I’m 42 and don’t “get it&# ) – I think it’s a life stage issue. 11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. 13mm in Series B.

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New capital fuels Purely Elizabeth’s next natural food phase

TechCrunch

As Stein, CEO, worked with clients, she saw the need for specialized foods, like gluten-free, and what started as a side project — a blueberry muffin mix — was the catalyst for Purely Elizabeth and became her first product before moving into granola, which is what the company is known for today. billion valuation.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving. New arenas.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money. Luckily, a mutual contact got wind that Sequoia was on the lookout for interesting companies in the region and Klarna’s name was promptly thrown into the mix.

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SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs and vulnerabilities

TechCrunch

An alarming report from Veracode and Enterprise Strategy Group found that nearly half of organizations knowingly ship vulnerable code despite using cybersecurity tools, often to meet release deadlines. In 2010, SonarSource’s open source project hit a milestone of over 2,000 downloads per month. It’s an acute problem.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.

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