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Tiny Bubbles, In The Whine…Make Your A Round Happy, Feel Fine

Most people younger than 40 may not even recognize the name Don Ho.  It’s probably not even vaguely familiar; not stored even on a single synapse way in the back there from  when you were channel surfing and accidentally heard … Continue reading

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Have Big VC Funds Become a League of Their Own?

I needed to read this story twice.  http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/is-late-stage-the-new-early/ There are so many implications that I’m glad TechCrunch plans to follow up on it.  They chronicle a handful of funds that are investing $100′s of millions in companies that probably don’t … Continue reading

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Yeah, We Need More Finish-Ups…

Excellent post from Don Dodge.  http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2011/03/start-ups-we-need-more-finish-ups.html While he probably isn’t aware of us, Ben Franklin Technology Partners TechVentures, and other incubators, have been focused on finish-ups for a long, long time.  Our conversion rate of start-ups still in business after … Continue reading

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