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There Is Now a Meetup for New York Venture Capitalists With Preteen Kids
Is it possible for a networking event to jump the shark? If so, meetups may be very close. In Adrianne Jeffries' feature this week on start-up fever affliciting New Yorkers with a bad case of...
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Venture Capitalists Bring Back Pay-to-Pitch, Rebrand It as a Deli Counter...
Hey, Mickey (Photo: hollywood-elsewhere.com) Mark MacLeod, a partner at the Montreal-based seed fund Real Ventures, recently posted a list of venture capitalists to avoid that quickly got passed around...
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Marc Andreessen Helps Us Understand Why Silicon Valley Investors Flock to...
(Photo: Charlie Rose) The Rosewood Hotel on Sand Hill Road, conveniently nestled near almost every important VC firm in the Valley, has long been a hotspot for wealthy VCs to meet potential mates. This...
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Prudish VCs Refuse to Fund Your Sex Toy Startup
Jimmyjane "Form 6" vibrator. (Photo: Jimmyjane) Apparently it's not all O-faces and happy endings for sex toy companies trying to receive funding from venture capitalists. No matter how established or...
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Millionaire VC Compares “Progressive War” On Rich to Nazism
The idiot in question, Tom Perkins (Getty) Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tom Perkins might have just written the most insulting and insensitive article of all time, and the Wall Street Journal...
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10 Unusual Things I Didn’t Know About Google (Including the Worst VC Decision...
I made the worst decision in venture capital history in late 2000. I was a partner at a venture firm called 212 Ventures. What? You never heard of it? We had $100 million from Investcorp, $5 million...
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V.C. Firm Names Robot To Board of Directors
Make way for one computer! (Wikimedia Commons) In case you needed more proof that all our jobs will one day be occupied by robots, a Hong Kong V.C. firm has just named an artificial intelligence tool...
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Argentina: Y Combinator with Hotter Girls
Jordan Metzner started a burrito chain in Argentina. Without knowing Spanish. (CNN en Español screencap) Forget fancy incubators like yC. If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur seeking Silicon Valley...
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