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Alfred Lin To Leave Zappos, Join Sequoia Capital

Alfred Lin, the COO/CFO of Zappos, has left the company and will join Sequoia Capital. Lin was the no. 2 executive at Zappos at the time of its acquisition by Amazon, and has had a nearly flawless resume as an entrepreneur over the years. Every company he’s worked for has been acquired, and the [...]

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Fri, April 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Top Ten VC Firm Websites By Traffic

Larry Cheng, Managing Partner at Volition Capital recently put together a list of the top VC blogs according to traffic. On that list, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures is the top VC blogger, followed by Guy Kawasaki of Garage Technology Ventures and Paul Graham of Y Combinator. But which VC firm Websites attract [...]

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Tue, February 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

VC Leaderboard: Top 25 Most Active Dealmakers Of 2009

Which venture capitalists funded the most companies last year? We went through our funding data in CrunchBase to come up with the Dealmaker Rankings below. The most active VC was Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which invested in 57 deals throughout the year by our count, followed by Kleiner Perkins (49), New Enterprise Associates (47) [...]

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Fri, January 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments