Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking. Join a local investment group.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

4G/ LTE (Long Term Evolution) -the fourth generation of networks, enabling faster downloading in 4G phones (100 megabit per second compared to today’s 21 megabit/sec in 3G phones). Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G, 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking. Join a local investment group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2020

Every reputable investment firm is registered with FINRA and files regular reports with the SEC. The Internet has just made it easier and faster for vultures to feed on investors tempted by the possibility of an “inside deal.” Has the firm ever been disciplined by the SEC or a state regulator? Avoid “insider deals.”

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2014

In the last two weeks there’s been a flurry of articles about the implications of a 25% decline in the public market value of a bunch of Internet stocks. We probably had about $150m committed and were running around trying to get to $300m for what we had positioned as a dedicated Internet VC fund.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

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). These investments would be exempt from registration under the 1933 SEC Act. There is a reason the SEC exists. ► January. (1).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Every reputable investment firm is registered with FINRA and files regular reports with the SEC. The Internet has just made it easier and faster for vultures to feed on entrepreneurs tempted by the possibility of an “inside deal.” Has the firm ever been disciplined by the SEC or a state regulator? Avoid “insider deals.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2023

Every reputable investment firm is registered with FINRA and files regular reports with the SEC. The Internet has just made it easier and faster for vultures to feed on investors tempted by the possibility of an “inside deal.” Has the firm ever been disciplined by the SEC or a state regulator? Avoid “insider deals.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2011

Every reputable investment firm is registered with FINRA and files regular reports with the SEC. The Internet has just made it easier and faster for vultures to feed on entrepreneurs tempted by the possibility of an “inside deal.” Have you or your firm ever been disciplined by the SEC or a state regulator? Avoid “insider deals.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2016

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking. Join a local investment group.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

“ But hold on a sec. In software and the Internet, that’s near zero so your capital costs more or less reduce to your cost of building the product. at 6:13 pm Hi Rob, Not sure your the Keyword Tools shows “search partners, content partners, and the entire AdSense content network&# anymore. 4 dixon on 09.30.10

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 6, 2010

Comcast won a major legal case it filed against the FCC regarding Comcast’s attempt to throttle BitTorrent traffic on their network. As I’ve written earlier, the FCC could also try to reclassify Internet services under the common carrier rules of Title II, where it has extensive regulatory powers. From A Few Words on Comcast v.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Of course, the real thanks should go to a startup - Gogo Inflight Internet - that I was lucky enough to meet at a recent workshop. The IT and networking "big boys" rule and any start up apps are summarily squashed on the premise that they may upset the status quo re: IT infrastructure. Thanks guys!) Amen to this topic!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2010

Every reputable investment firms has to file regular reports with the SEC. The Internet has just made it easier and faster for vultures to feed on entrepreneurs tempted by the possibility of an “inside deal.” • How do you get paid? Have you or your firm ever been disciplined by the SEC or a state regulator? By commission?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Meanwhile, SEC filings indicate that Frazier Healthcare and Voyager Capital — both of Seattle — are on the prowl for more money. Gist provides the only full view of the contacts in your professional network by creating rich business profiles that include the most news, status updates and work details. GEEKWIRE ANNUAL SPONSORS.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

When did the board last discuss whether the company’s disclosure of cyber risk and cyber incidents is consistent with SEC guidance?​ It’s incredibly easy to create fake networks, which are so hard to differentiate from the real thing. How does the board evaluate the effectiveness of the company’s cybersecurity efforts?​

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Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

When did the board last discuss whether the company’s disclosure of cyber risk and cyber incidents is consistent with SEC guidance?​ It’s incredibly easy to create fake networks, which are so hard to differentiate from the real thing. How does the board evaluate the effectiveness of the company’s cybersecurity efforts?​

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

Many Internet companies are struggling. Len and I co-founded Interliant (originally Sage Networks) with Steve Maggs and Rajat Bhargava in 1996. The NASDAQ peak is in the rear view mirror. I’m sitting at the breakfast table at Len Fassler’s house in Harrison, New York drinking a cup of coffee and chewing on a bagel.

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David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

It allows small businesses to raise $1 million, from a limit of 10% of income or $10,000 from individual investors, without registering their companies with the SEC. It was created before the Internet age to protect investors by promoting full disclosure of information.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company takes a starkly different approach than its closest competitor by offering ad-free, subscription-based search that does not track users’ internet activity. It’s part of the reason why people like network effects as a way of doing this. And I want to dive deeper into Neeva for a sec, you’ve already referenced it.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company takes a starkly different approach than its closest competitor by offering ad-free, subscription-based search that does not track users’ internet activity. It’s part of the reason why people like network effects as a way of doing this. And I want to dive deeper into Neeva for a sec, you’ve already referenced it.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2014

In the last two years, regulations set by the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) have undergone several changes. Both aim to make it easier for companies to tap into a diverse network of investors, and both harness the potential of new technologies to raise capital quickly and cheaply. What is legal now?

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

They would exempt companies looking to raise $5 million or less from standard SEC filing requirements and lighten the virtually impossible to follow rules on utilizing social networking and other Internet-based communications to market offerings. With relationships initiated, cultivated and maintained online.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Network storage has many challenges today, but it wasn’t always like this. Pre-Internet: The Birth of Network storage. But in the absence of real breakthroughs, PCs continued to network in a peer-to-peer fashion to provide some semblance of collaboration. The Internet Era. The SAN market was born. SANs mushroomed.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 26, 2021

It’s a new neural network that creates images based on text inputs, and the worlds of artificial intelligence and machine learning recently got their first glimpse. In the first segment (0:00) : Take the surrealistic images of Salvador Dali and cross them with Pixar’s animated film Wall-E and you’ve got … Dall-E.

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Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In September of this year, the SEC voted to overturn the ban on “general solicitation” that made it illegal for companies to publicly advertise that they are raising capital. How Crowdfunding is Affecting Angel Group Investment. An easing on some of the U.S. An easing on some of the U.S. Want To Learn More?

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. Regarding social networking, Yahoo!

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. That’s why we gathered a collection of 20 online resources for European startups that will help you with business plans, recruiting, publicity and networking.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

With declining span of attention, unless something appeals in first 20 secs, people move onto something diff (generally, because there are so many choices). Successful startups today more than ever, grow in Internet time. Trying to regain internet connection. At the end of the day you need both to make it a successful business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? 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. I studied computer science also, but when I first read the paper, my thought was, wow, this could be kind of like the internet.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

While the crowdfunding portion of the bill still needs to go through SEC rule-making, the die is clearly cast that a whole new social networking – based world of start-up and small business investing and financing is coming fast upon us. This week, the President is expected to pass H.R.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

A few months ago, I got a pitch from a company providing a kind of “last mile” for computer vision—an always-on human network that would take images that computers couldn’t identify, and spit back whether or not a roof tile was broken or if a signature matched. Some investors who rewrite the history of innovation.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2017

While that might not sound like a traditional role of a state Attorney General, when it comes to fighting for access to broadband Internet technology and building partnerships that support economic success, Phil is unique. It’s not often that I have an opportunity to support a leader like Phil.

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