A rare defense of venture capital classic!!!!

A rare defense of venture capital classic (via Pando Daily)

By Sarah Lacy On August 30, 2013 One of our most popular stories this week was about the future of venture capital. It traced the asset class’s history from its boutique roots to the age of mega-brands to the rage around international expansion and…

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A sign that the new Gmail is really solving core emails woes!!!!!!!!!!!!

A sign that the new Gmail is really solving core emails woes (via Pando Daily)

By Sarah Lacy On August 23, 2013 Good God, my inbox has become where sales pitches go to die. Or multiply. I can’t decide. Nordstrom. Bloomingdale’s. Neiman Marcus. When have I ever even shopped at Neiman Marcus? Google Priority Inbox nicely throws…

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Aaron Levie, elephant hunter: Why the cloud’s consummate poster boy is actually an outlier!!!!!!

Aaron Levie, elephant hunter: Why the cloud’s consummate poster boy is actually an outlier (via Pando Daily)

By Sarah Lacy On August 21, 2013 Do you ever have one of those dreams where everything seems mostly normal, but it’s not until you wake up that you realize something really reality-alteringly bizarre was going on? That moment when you’re sipping…

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Nigerian movie mogul raises $2 million more for local angel investing!!!!!!!

Nigerian movie mogul raises $2 million more for local angel investing (via Pando Daily)

By Sarah Lacy On August 16, 2013 When I last saw Jason Njoku it was over a nice glass of wine in a restaurant in San Francisco. The time before that, he was bribing a Nigerian vigilante gang to release me. Such are the two poles of the worlds Njoku inhabits…

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Stop your bitching: Why we should welcome celebrities to Kickstarter, Twitter and any other digital platform!!!!!!

Stop your bitching: Why we should welcome celebrities to Kickstarter, Twitter and any other digital platform (via Pando Daily)

By Sarah Lacy On July 23, 2013 There’s a lot of whining going on around the Web about real, actual celebrities doing campaigns on Kickstarter. “Waaaaaaah,” it goes. “That was for us! You have real studios and backers!” It reminds me of the…

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Indiegogo’s global reach: “If we’re limiting ourself to the US, we’re not providing access to capital for all”!!!!!!

Indiegogo’s global reach: “If we’re limiting ourself to the US, we’re not providing access to capital for all” (via Pando Daily)

By Sarah Lacy On July 8, 2013 Crowd funding company Indiegogo recently announced it was launching a Spanish-lanuage version of the site, which may not be the world’s most exciting news. But what is pretty cool is how global Indiegogo has become —…

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Why Israel should reconsider too much high-fiving over Waze!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why Israel should reconsider too much high-fiving over Waze (via Pando Daily)

By Sarah Lacy On July 5, 2013 Earlier this week our wonderful contributor from Israel, Mick Weinstein, wrote a story about a new fund launching and he lead with this: While the Israeli startup community basks in the glow of Waze’s recent $1.1 billion…

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“Either you will be a global company, or you won’t be a company”!!!!!!!!!

“Either you will be a global company, or you won’t be a company” (via Pando Daily)

By Sarah Lacy On June 24, 2013 Our PandoMonthly with Fred Wilson was one of our most popular so far, and it was brought to you by Smartling – a company that makes it possible to adapt your website into multiple different languages and manage all those…

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Tom Preston-Werner: If you only hire in the Valley, you don’t have the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom Preston-Werner: If you only hire in the Valley, you don’t have the best talent (via Pando Daily)

By Sarah Lacy On June 21, 2013 I always love when a member of the audience asks our guest a more insightful question than I do. It takes a village, people! Last night, one of our attendees asked GitHub’s CEO and co-founder Tom Preston-Werner about how he runs GitHub as a distributed company. You…

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Friday bonus video: The lost Fred Wilson mediocre super power!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday bonus video: The lost Fred Wilson mediocre super power (via Pando Daily)

By Sarah Lacy On June 21, 2013 Last week, we had a bizarre glitch with our video producers for PandoMonthly. Somehow Fred Wilson’s mediocre super power got cut from the full video. For regular viewers, that’s sort of a punch in the face. You’ve somehow made it through the whole video and then…

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