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Startups Singing Badly – The First Round Capital Holiday Card Is Here (VIDEO)
VCs in the front seat, VCs in the back seat Beautifully executed, as always, but it was a lot less painful to watch when it was ripping off a hilarious Old Spice ad and not Rebecca Black.
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Former First Round Capital Principal Charlie O’Donnell Launches Brooklyn...
via BrooklynBridgeVentures.com On his blog this morning, New York City tech stalwart Charlie O'Donnell announced the creation of a new seed investment fund called Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. Mr....
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Aereo Picks Up $20.5 M. for a Thumbnail-Sized HD Antenna to Stream Local TV...
How I Live-Streamed Your Mother A magical thing happened at IAC's headquarters this morning. A startup called Aereo displayed the most compelling argument for cord-cutting we've heard in awhile. It...
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Jack Leidlein, First Round’s New Head of Talent, Wants To Hire You
Mr. Leidlein (redeye.firstround.com) Jack Leidlein, who was hired last week by First Round Capital to be their head of talent, really loves to use the word “exceptional.” It makes sense, though; the...
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Dog Vacay, the Airbnb for Dogs, Launches In New York City
The Hirschhorns Accumulate enough animal-loving friends and you're likely to find yourself on the receiving end of emails like: Anyone want to stay in a sunny 2-bedroom apartment next weekend FOR FREE...
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Oprah and Eric Schmidt Back Cory Booker’s New Startup #waywire, a Media Site...
(Photo: waywire.com) While you were clinging to your A/C unit over the weekend, Newark mayor and Twitter addict Cory Booker was ushering his new startup out of stealth mode. The company, called...
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Fab Raises Another $105 M. from a Skype Cofounder Just Seven Months After...
Mr. Goldberg on stage at the Fabby Awards last night (Photo: Laughing Squid's Instagram) A scant seven months after Andreessen Horowitz "plowed" $40 million into Fab at a $200 million valuation, the...
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Booting Up: Hacking Press Coverage for Fun and Profit
Time for school! (Photo: flickr.com/slambert) First Round Capital has built a brand-new platform for startups seeking press coverage: HackPR, designed to connect them with journalists. The firm is...
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With Its $9 M. Series A, Percolate Might Become the Next Buddy Media By...
Mr. Gross. Smart pivots can pay off handsomely. Earlier this week, Percolate, a fast-growing New York City-based startup that helps brands curate content, announced a sizable Series A led by GGV...
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Shopping Sites According to Their VCs? First Round Capital Showcases...
Here's a novel idea for flexing your consumerist impulses on Cyber Monday: organize your shopping by a company's cap table. For Cyber Monday, First Round Capital, which specializes in ecommerce, has...
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First Round Capital Couldn’t Choose Between ‘Call Me Maybe’ and ‘Gangnam...
We thought for sure First Round would go with "Gangnam Style," Silicon Valley favorite. But apparently, the spray-and-pray strategy favored by investors also applies to parodying viral hits. Hence the...
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Here Comes Aereo! Service Expanding to 22 New Cities [UPDATED]
Killer Diller. (Photo: flickr.com/techcrunch, by Dave Getzschman) Hey, look: It's some actual news out of CES, which has absolutely nothing to do with Evernote-integrated refrigerators! New York-based,...
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MessageMe, the Addictive App Facebook Tried to Buy Before Cutting It Off,...
There have been a rash of reports recently about Facebook's mercurial approach to third-party developers. The social network may not want to be "in the business of king-making," by boosting--or...
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Best Tech Events This Week (Open Tech NYC, First Round Capital...
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties....
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DogVacay Just Raised a $15M Series B Somehow Not Led by Marc Andreessen’s Dog
(DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP/Getty Images) Get ready to wail and gnash your teeth: DogVacay, the L.A.-based "Airbnb for dogs" that allows you to board your dog with vetted hosts, has just raised a $15...
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