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Photobucket Story: How VC Insiders Made Big Personal Returns

When Fox Interactive Media bought Photobucket last year, IVP founders Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdock, who each invested $300,000 into the company and personally made 20 times their money—or $6 million more...
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What's next for Venture Capital?

Since things have been rather slow on the VC front, IPO market, a lot of theories are going around about what is the next thing for VCs? What are they looking for and where are they willing to put their more...
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RIP: VC Keith Benjamin

Silicon Valley has lost a valuable friend and mentor in the form of VC Keith Benjamin. Still in the prime of his life, Keith suffered from subdural heamatoma, a form of brain injury from which he did more...
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Google starting venture capital group

While sitting pretty on a cash pile of about $12.7 Billion dollars, Google is extending into the VC market with a big fund (amount unknown) and led by senior vice president David Drummond and entrepreneur more...
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Glum VCs mull over the startup horizon

The startup crisis (hey, didn't you know there was one?) is growing larger. On the heels of the recent spate of news that exits are going south and there was not a single IPO in the last quarter, VCs more...
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Question is - To VC or Not to VC?

Every entrepreneur will face this pivotal question and needs to carefully evaluate raising PE/VC money as he/she thinks about scaling their ventures. The barriers to entry and capital requirement to start more...
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True or Not: Are VCs Shunning Infrastructure?

As part of Structure 08, Gigaom got together 5 honchos to discuss this hot topic. Rajeev Batra, Principal, Mayfield, Tom Dyal, Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures, Maha Ibrahim, General Partner, Canaan more...
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An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists

Fortunately, engineers are trained problem-solvers-- I want to harness that power. Engineers, armed with better information about how VCs operate, can work for more equitable solutions. I'm not offering more...
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When pitching for VC money, do reviews matter?

Michael Arrington has a post on theFunded.com, which is the now well-known website for either throwing bouquets or brickbats at VCs who either funded you or chose to ignore you through their own unique more...
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Fred Says We Need A New Path To Liquidity

Fred Wilson has come out with a blog post that is rocking the blogosphere saying that the big giants (Yahoo, Google, News Corp, etc) are treating the internet assets like toys while smaller services like more...
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