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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

I wont go into the details of the bill, but at a high level, it allows entrepreneurs to raise funds over the Internet up to a maximum of $1M annually (or $2M with audited financials). My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. Steve Bennet. 7.5 - 10.5%

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Episode 3: A Startup Comic Book Company, How to Find a Mentor, and #BigData – The Bcast

Up and Running

Someone tweeted out of San Jose, they did a really amazing review of the book. These companies, SageWorks, SizeUp, and there’s others, basically aggregate anonymously thousands and thousands of companies’ information. People more and more now with the internet, now having been around for how many years now?

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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences

Occam's Razor

Why not, at least, show me "Current Deals from San Jose" (my closest airport)? by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators! Everyone on the Internet loves speed. Does the internet stink at branding? Sad, right?

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). return on investment after 3.5

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. I think it was December of 2010, and happened to just be reading that paper on the internet one day and just immediately captivated my attention. And I actually really liked doing this. So that was my first interaction with it.

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Cracking The Code: Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. I attended yesterday the 10th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends organized by the Churchill Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. internet. (6). Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.