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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. No big shocker since it is co-founded by Biz Stone and Adam Ruegel. Founded in January 2000 in Oakland by Tim Westergren; new CFO, Steve Cakebread was previously CFO of Salesforce.com. Competitor: Slide.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. I had no network on the West coast.

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A Conference, a Dad, an Idea, a Team, Funding, and a Launch: Brooklyn's Own Tinybop is Live on the App Store!

This is going to be BIG.

Joining me in the investment is fellow Brooklyn native, Mitch Kapor , as well as KEC Holdings and Stickerbrush—but this wasn’t an easy round for Founder Raul Gutierrez to close. Another major factor in my decision to invest was that Raul was working out of Studiomates , a creative co-working space built by Tina Roth Eisenberg.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. I live in Oakland with my husband and now my dog. Could we start spreading what's working from state to state, with having a network of people that we've worked with over the years that we could start to tap.

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The Power of Video Throughout the Customer Journey

Duct Tape Marketing

It’s imperative to keep communications strong after purchase to earn loyal customers who will spread the word about your business to their own networks. About Brad Jefferson, CEO and co-founder, Animoto. Prior to co-founding Animoto in August 2006, Brad spent eight years with Onyx Software, an enterprise software company.

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Green Austin! April 19–20 Cannabis Event

Austin Startup

Those are the words of investor Bill Marcus of the networking business Green Table talking about the cannabis business as part of an interview broadcast Monday on the National Public Radio show Hear and Now. With medicinal cannabis now accepted in a majority of U.S.

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Why Are Venture Capitalists Ignoring The Future? The Emerging Domestic Economy

David Teten

In addition, 83% of companies had a racial composition that was entirely Caucasian, while only 12% of founders were Asian and less than 1% of founders were African-American. Conventional Founder Background. Quadrant I : Most VC-backed companies, e.g., Mark Zuckerberg, Founder/CEO, Facebook. Non-Majority Markets.