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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Read More
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The appetite for private comany investments continues to soar. Private transactions on SecondMarket were $435 million in the Read More
Venture debt is looking pretty seductive to investors these days. TriplePoint Capital, a six-year-old Palo Alto, Calif-based debt Read More
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Shopify fills its cart with $15 million funding
Shopping website platform Shopify announced Monday morning that it’s secured $15 million in financing from Bessemer Venture Read More
Fred Wilson is a VC at Union Square Ventures, based in NYC. Back when we were doing our Read More
Fred Wilson is a partner at Union Square Ventures in Manhattan. The Wall Street Journal has a story Read More
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This week in Greenstart – Week 3
Greenstart is a cleantech accelerator program providing a fast runway to success for entrepreneurs addressing the energy challenge. Greenstart provides Read More
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Nokia as ‘He Who Must Not Be Named’
I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. (Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team Read More
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Tribeca Venture Partners debuts with $100M fund
Gird your loins, there’s a new VC fund in town. Not this town—it’s actually in New York City. Read More
Tumblr announced Monday morning that it’s secured an $85 million round of financing. Greylock Partners and Insight Venture Read More
Independa, provider of a “telecare” health monitoring solution, announced Thursday that it has secured $1.6 million in funding Read More
Multimedia software developer ArcSoft announced Monday that it has received a $20 million investment from Intel Capital, Intel’s Read More
(Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist with Union Square Ventures in NY) I’ve been reading Eric’s book which Read More