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John Battelle's New Reverse-Conference Is Coming To New York... You Go To The Companies! External-link
John Battelle, the founder of Web 2.0 Summit, Federated Media, and many other companies and conferences, has launched a new kind of business conference: OpenCo. Billed as a cross between a business conference and a music festival, OpenCo takes the typical conference model--in which companies present to auditorium fu...
Salesforce Joins Datahug's $4M Series-A, While Valley VCs Love Its ‘Who Knows Who' Platform External-link
Last October, Datahug, a ‘business networking automation’ startup, which is also being used by VCs, secured a €2.5 million Series A financing led by European VC DFJ Esprit. But it's now adding to that pot. We've confirmed Salesforce has decided to join that round in an "expansion" of its Series A, which in...
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4 Of The Most Inspiring New Startup Founders, According to Silicon Valley Investors External-link
SV Angels' Ron Conway, Brian Pokorny and David Lee were asked who the most inspiring, up-and-coming tech founders are right now. SV Angel is one of the most well-know, early stage VC firms, investing in hundreds of startups around the world. Here's who each investor said. Ron Conway told TechCrunch's Collee...
Who Is Tech's Most Inspiring New Founder? SV Angel's Ron Conway, David Lee, And Brian Pokorn... External-link
Ron Conway, David Lee, and Brian Pokorny meet new startup founders practically every day as investors at renowned angel funding firm SV Angel. So when they came backstage at this week's Disrupt NYC event after their on-stage talk with Michael Arrington, I asked them to talk about the most inspiring up-and-coming fou...
SV Angel's Brian Pokorny Says Facebook Isn't As Much Fun Anymore - It's A Utility External-link
Brian Pokorny, who recently rejoined SV Angel as a general partner, weighed in this afternoon on the future of a number of high-profile companies — Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo. Pokorny was interviewed at Disrupt NY, where he was joined onstage by his partners David Lee and Ron Conway. When TechCrunch founder Micha...
SV Angel Team Counters Chamath Palihapitiya's Startup Skepticism: ‘Innovation Is Not Dead' External-link
Michael Arrington began moderating a panel at Disrupt NY today with Ron Conway, David Lee, and Brian Pokorny of SV Angel by noting that he was "pissed off" by investor Chamath Palipitiya's comments on Monday that startup quality is at an "all time low." "I don't agree," Lee said, expla...
Mark Zuckerberg's Political Group Is Trashing Obama And Obamacare And Promoting Oil And Gas ... External-link
If you want to get a feel for how American politics really works, as opposed to the way they tell you it works, look no farther than what's going on behind the scenes at the new political action group started by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and dozens of other Silicon Valley tech leaders. This organization, FWD....
Mark Zuckerberg's Political Group Is Trashing Obama And Obamacare And Promoting Wildlife Oil... External-link
If you want to get a feel for how American politics really works, as opposed to the way they tell you it works, look no further than what's going on behind the scenes at the new political action group started by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and dozens of other Silicon Valley tech leaders. This organization, FWD....
Announcing The Agenda For TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 External-link
A big city needs a big tech event, which is why I’m pleased to announce the massive TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2013 agenda. It’s a schedule chock-full of amazing speakers, great panels, and all the excitement of our Startup Battlefield – in which 30 amazing startups will compete for the Dis...
What Were The CEOs Of Dropbox And Tumblr Doing At Facebook Today? (FB) External-link
As we walked into Facebook headquarters today to cover the launch of its new Home app, we ran into Tumblr CEO David Karp. We chatted with Karp, who said he got out to the Bay Area from time to time—as he should, since the blog-platform operator has investors out here, like Sequoia Capital's Roelof Botha. L...
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