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So what does an EIR (at First Round in New York City) do?
When Josh Kopelman and I first spoke about me joining First Round Capital, we talked a lot about alignment of interests - what First Round Capital was interested in with regards to investing in New York City, and also what my interests were with respect to my own career. Comment?
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Foodzie Lands The Man Who Invented Google Gadgets As Its VP Engineering
... ss of 2008, and last winter it raised a $1 million funding round led by Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC with First Round Capital and some other angel investors participating. Comment?
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Watch First Round Capitala s Startups Sing About Their Big Dreams
This is quickly shaping up to be my favorite holiday tradition. First Round Capital has once again rounded up all of its portfolio companies to create a video holiday card that's as hilarious as it is heartwarming. Comment?
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First Round Capitala s Got Talent
First Round Capital has outdone itself. Not with a new investment, but with a new video holiday card. Comment?
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Last Chance for First Round Office Hours in 2009
It's been a great year of meeting entrepreneurs here at First Round Capital , in no small part due to the community outreach we've been doing via our Office Hours program. Comment?
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One Kings Lane Raises Funding From KPCB, First Round And Reid Hoffman
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One Kings Lane , an e-commerce startup that operates a private sales website dedicated to home furnishings, decor, and related products, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , with First Round Capital and angel investor Reid Hoffman participating. Comment?
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Online Home Decor Sample Sales' One Kings Lane Raises 1st Round
One Kings Lane , which runs a members-only ecommerce site for home decor, has raised an undisclosed amount from First Round Capital and Kleiner Perkins. Comment?
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Valleywag is Intimate Attention
... Bundles - Valleywag mashup. Reminds me of when Brecht travelled to Hollywood to write screenplays At the First Round Capital dinner at Bibibbo in Menlo Park, I ran into Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed Ventures who leaned over and apologized for not ... Comment?
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... started by Matt Galligan and Joe Stump, has raised $1.5 million in funding. The seed round was led by First Round Capital, which has offices in San Francisco and West Conshohocken, Penn., but other investors, including Boulder-based TechStars ... Comment?
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Six-Month Update: Our Startup 2009 Finalists Are Raising Money, Cutting Deals
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... two feet;" they should be done by Q1 Cofounders got new day jobs: CEO Charlie O'Donnell now working for First Round Capital and CTO Alex Lines working at Betaworks Portfolio Monkey Was featured in the WSJ as one of "The Best Tools for Online ... Comment?
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From The Classroom to the Board Room: VC Office Hours Take Hold
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... eventually spread out into other markets. The gold standard for geographic diversity in office hours is First Round Capital, which arguably was the firm that first appropriated the academic tradition. The West Conshohocken, Penn.-based firm so far ... Comment?
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Why startup SimpleGeo abandoned game making to sell location tools instead
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... familiar names in the Valley VC world. Co-founder and CEO Matt Galligan confirmed that bicoastal firm First Round Capital led the round. A total of $1.3M in seed funding came from Redpoint Ventures, Freestyle Capital, and a mostly well-known set of ... Comment?
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Location-Aware Startup SimpleGeo Raises $1.5 Million
... to easily make their web and mobile apps location-aware (Read more about it here ). The round was led by First Round Capital. Angel investors Ron Conway, Digg founder Kevin Rose, Delicious founder Joshua Schachter, and Napster founder Shawn Fanning, ... Comment?
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Location start-up SimpleGeo maps out funding
Venture firm First Round Capital has led the Series A funding round for start-up SimpleGeo , a buzzed-about new company that has built a product for easy integration of "location" features into Web and mobile apps, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal. Comment?
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Will the Ace Hotel embrace the innovation community?
... enough--an tech entrepreneur. Just this week, as I was taking meetings in my relatively new role on the First Round Capital investment team, I got to meet Charlie Rose, spotted Tobey Maguire, and most notably, Boxee 's Avner Ronen and Jetsetter 's ... Comment?
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Hot Potato Is Ready to Eat: Do Twitter, Facebook Users Want Another...
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... (I had originally reported that it was raising "about $1 million"), and in addition to VC backers First Round Capital and RRE Ventures, the start-up has an array of high-profile angel investors who have pitched in. Here's the roster: Super-angel ... Comment?
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Hot Potato Raises $1.42 For Event Social Networking
... ensue. The clear challenge then is that the functionality is not terribly hard to replicate by others. First Round Capital and RRE Ventures co-led. Other investors were Ron Conway; realtime start-up incubator Betaworks; Huffington Post co-founder ... Comment?
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Real-Time Data Start-Ups Carve Out Niches as Revenue Question Looms [Voices]
... sporting event or private events such as a person buying a car. The company is backed by $1 million from First Round Capital and RRE Ventures. Using the service, people can see a stream of the text updates for the events, as well as photos directly ... Comment?
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Will the Ace Hotel embrace the innovation community?
... enough--an tech entrepreneur. Just this week, as I was taking meetings in my relatively new role on the First Round Capital investment team, I got to meet Charlie Rose, spotted Tobey Maguire, and most notably, Boxee 's Avner Ronen and Jetsetter 's ... Comment?
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Investors Dig Into Hot Potato
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... on connecting friends and fans through live events, has raised $1.42 million in first-round funding. First Round Capital and RRE Ventures co-led the deal, with Josh Kopelman of FRC and Will Porteus of RRE taking board seats. Also on the Hot Potato ... Comment?
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