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Posted: Saturday 4 February 2012
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I first heard the word "grinfucker" a decade or so ago from a close friend who was a former investment banker. He said, in response to a meeting we were in with a person who was very polite and charming "he's such a grinfucker." I loved the word and, as I found out later, it [...]
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Posted: Saturday 4 February 2012
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This is the kind of thing that happens in the age of the Internet and Kickstarter. My daughter Emily told me one of her friends was involved in opening an art gallery and they are using Kickstarter to raise the...
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Posted: Friday 3 February 2012
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The WSJ has a story on what goes into the price of a shirt that shows why so many of the current batch of hot apparel ecommerce companies (e.g. Shoedazzle*, Bonobos*, J Hilburn, Warby Parker, IndoChino etc) are vertically integrated. The retail value chain has a significant markup built into both the wholesale and retail channel [...]
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Posted: Friday 3 February 2012
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CEOs are feeling pretty good about revenue and hiring in 2012.
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Posted: Friday 3 February 2012
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There is less than one week left to help the Puget Sound Business Journal identify the best in-house counsel in Washington state for the 2012 Corporate Counsel of the Year Awards. Nominations are due Feb. 8.
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Posted: Friday 3 February 2012
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A round-up of venture-capital news and analysis from VentureWire and around the Web.
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Posted: Friday 3 February 2012
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Last year we invested in Petflow, an online petfood retailer. We believed that Alex and Joe, the two cofounders, would be able to repeat the success they had in founding Azoogle (now part of Epic Media Group) and that the repeat purchase behavior inherent in petfood would generate loyal repeat customers and high lifetime value, [...]
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Posted: Friday 3 February 2012
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Since the beginning of the year I have been running an experiment to see if I can consume all my print media digitally. That means only buying Kindle books and getting my morning news fix exclusively on one of my tablets or my phone. So far, with two caveats that I will return to, [...]
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Posted: Thursday 2 February 2012
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The venture-backed company abruptly shutters a social game.
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Posted: Thursday 2 February 2012
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The company has separated itself from competitors with its firewall technology.
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Posted: Thursday 2 February 2012
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Concur Technologies, which bought TripIt for up to $120 million last year, has now invested in Room 77, a hotel search and booking website.
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Posted: Thursday 2 February 2012
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Amazon is buying TeachStreet, a Seattle startup that helps people find tutors and online classes in subjects ranging from cooking to guitar lessons to preparation for graduate school admissions examinations.
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Posted: Thursday 2 February 2012
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Over the past two years I've been struggling mightily with the dynamics of "classical VC funded board of directors" and how these boards work. When I hear a VC say "I'm an active board member" it gives me the same nauseous feeling I get when someone says "I'm a value added investor." I've been on some awesome [...]
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Posted: Thursday 2 February 2012
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A round-up of venture-capital news and analysis from VentureWire and around the Web.
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Posted: Thursday 2 February 2012
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Ever find your team debating a decision in which there are two very different yet justifiable solutions to a given problem? We all have. Very often these are the most contentious and most complicated decisions simply because despite rigorous review...
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Posted: Thursday 2 February 2012
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When they released fourth quarter earnings data last week Netflix broke out their streaming and DVD businesses for the first time. A quick analysis of the data reveals that in the US the revenue and profit per month for each streaming customer was $21.94 and $2.40, whilst the average DVD subscriber paid $33.04, which [...]
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Posted: Thursday 2 February 2012
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The rise of sites like Facebook has made reputation management a newly crucial function.
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Posted: Thursday 2 February 2012
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Attached are my quick thoughts on the Facebook S-1 along with some quick stabs at valuation. As a quick disclosure, Benchmark Capital has a minority position in Facebook as a result of the acquisition of FriendFeed, a company that was incubated in our offices. I thought it would be useful to look at Facebook using [...]
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Posted: Wednesday 1 February 2012
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It might not seem like Facebook should fear much, but there are plenty of potential problems.
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Posted: Wednesday 1 February 2012
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Kirkland-based technology consulting firm Allyis has promoted Jason Herman to CEO.
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