Posted on: March 10, 2011 by Alastair GoldfisherNo Comments »
BlueRun Ventures, Ignition Partners, Founders Fund and angel investor Scott Banister (co-founder of Zivity) joined a $15 million Series C round for Topsy, the San Francisco-based company announced today. Western Technology Investments joined the round, which brings to $30 million the amount of equity and debt that Topsy, a provider of real-time search engine services, [...]
Posted on: June 15, 2009 by Connie Loizos18 Comments »
When I was first introduced to San Francisco-based social networking startup Tagged.com, it was 2005 and the nascent company was limiting its service to pre-teen and teenage users. The implicit message was that Tagged would protect its young base from the sexual predators trolling around MySpace (which, at the time was generating a slew of negative [...]
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So really Steve, the title of your articles should have read: “How VCs are killing Silicon Valley”, and I’d wholeheartedly agree. Especially since their thesis determines what can be discovered (Einstein).
Georges
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