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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

mashable.com

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. What is your viral coefficient? Also, most leads will have their own network of co-investors with whom they can share the deal, but make sure to ask that they share on AngelList too. Social Network Lists.

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Is 2009 the year of mobile computing?

BeyondVC

  Through various forms I have been involved from an investment perspective in wireless-related companies since 1996 when I made an investment in a company called AirMedia.    It raised an additional $30mm of venture capital after we invested and subsequently was long on buzz but short on customer adoption. 

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our journey to an oversubscribed fund iii for first check enterprise

BeyondVC

This is a story about starting an enterprise seed fund called Boldstart in 2010 and our journey in enterprise since 1996. We set out to build boldstart at the height of mobile app mania and viral growth and were faced with questions about our focus on enterprise and NYC.

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Is 2009 the year of mobile computing?

BeyondVC

  Through various forms I have been involved from an investment perspective in wireless-related companies since 1996 when I made an investment in a company called AirMedia.    It raised an additional $30mm of venture capital after we invested and subsequently was long on buzz but short on customer adoption. 

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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our journey to an oversubscribed fund iii for first check enterprise

BeyondVC

This is a story about starting an enterprise seed fund called Boldstart in 2010 and our journey in enterprise since 1996. We set out to build boldstart at the height of mobile app mania and viral growth and were faced with questions about our focus on enterprise and NYC.

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Social Media Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Board Effect

New apps are continually being introduced to help interconnect social media platforms which can help automate content and spread it virally using a few clicks. Once you’ve posted something on the internet, it can go viral within seconds, leaving no room for a do-over. Once they’ve cut wood or another material, it can’t be undone.