Courtesy of Draper Richards It’s not a stretch to say that the story of Bill Draper is the story of venture capital. The iconic 83-year-old founder of Draper Gaither & Anderson, Sutter Hill Ventures and Draper Richards virtually created the West Coast incarnation of the industry when he and his partners founded DGA in 1959 and […]
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Bill Draper Takes Stock Of A Venture Industry He Helped Create
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Can Anything Stop The Facebook Juggernaut?
More...So. Facebook. $35 billion valuation; 600 million users; 25% of all US Web traffic — and all that with fewer employees than Google has job openings. The inventor of the World Wide Web recently warned that the web may be endangered by Facebook’s colossal walled garden. A Google engineer was recently paid $3.5 million to not jump […]
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8 things I wish I knew before starting a business
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Groupon copies eBay’s playbook in international buying spree
More...Trying a little of its own medicine, social buying juggernaut Groupon went on something of a shopping spree Tuesday, announcing that it has bought Japanese and Russian rivals Qpod and Darberry, respectively. While the terms of the deal were undisclosed, the company plans to assimilate both into the Groupon brand, according to the Wall Street Journal. […]
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PAY ATTENTION TO THIS STARTUP: Shopkick, Launching Today, Is Foursquare For Shopping — With Actual Rewards
More...Foursquare has become a popular mobile social networking app with some shopping perks. But another iPhone app, launching today, is much more focused on shopping, and has the combination of early deals, big-name backers, and buzz that makes it worth watching. Shopkick, a San Francisco-based startup, launches its flagship iPhone app today, and it’s right […]