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3 VCs - Growing Up Green

These are 3 hot VCs in the Clean Tech area: Aileen Lee, 38, and Trae Vassallo, 35, are partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the third is 33 year old Samir Kaul who is the right hand man of more...
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Gotta move south in California for VC opps

Sumant Mandal who is managing director at Clearstone Venture Partners in Santa Monica, says that SoCal is brimming with opportunities and growth for VC investment and with 1.10 billion invested over 66 more...
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Startup provides Venture Capital Wear

Josh Kopelman, Managing Director of First Round Capital shares this funny one about a company that provides speciality wear for VCs - check out their site for really funny T-shirts that say what the VCs more...
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Yelp Raises $15 Million Fourth Round, Valuation $200 Million?

Started in 2004, based in San Francisco, local guide and review site Yelp is going into its fourth round of funding boasting some impressive numbers: 8.3 million uniques in the past 30 days and over 2.3 more...
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Startup Disqus Gets VC Funding

New York City-based VC Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures), along with well-known angel investors Naval Ravikant, Howard Lindzon and ex-Googler Aydin Senkut are putting in half a million dollars in Disqus more...
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VC firm 3i quits early-stage investments

Inspite of some successes, 3i’s venture capital business has shrunk steadily since it suffered about £1bn of writedowns from the technology crash of 2000 and therefore it is closing down its worst-performing more...
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Slideshare: A VC looks at it

Fred Wilson, a VC who blogs has given his inputs and shared his experience with the startup Slideshare which converts your Powerpoint presentation into Flash, but seems to take a really long time to do 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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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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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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