Our newest portfolio company, HeyZap, is looking for the fourth member of their team. HeyZap is a platform for game developers to get wide viral distribution for their flash games and monetize them. They are looking for: a talented engineer...
Topics: Listings, Venture Capital and Technology

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I love Hacker News (aka news.ycombinator.com). I read it at least once a day and it sends this blog more traffic than anything other than Google and Twitter. This is the refer log for AVC for the past month. But...
Topics: Cloud computing, mongodb, Venture Capital and Technology

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I just spent a half hour composing a longish thoughtful post on the art of saying no in the venture capital business. It was inspired by Brad Feld's post on the same topic a few days ago. However, when I...
Topics: Venture Capital and Technology

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A survey of VCs by Polachi Inc. has been making the rounds of the internet the past couple days. I was asked to participate in this survey but did not (not for any reason in particular). I looked over the...
Topics: Business, Venture capital, Venture Capital and Technology

{"title":"What VCs Are Worrying About","post_url":"http:\/\/www.avc.com\/a_vc\/2009\/06\/what-vcs-are-worrying-about.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/AVc","author":"fredwilson","date":"2009-06-30 03:55:50","summary":"A survey of VCs by Polachi Inc. has been making the rounds of the internet the past couple days. I was asked to participate in this survey but did not (not for any reason in particular). I looked over the..."}

Let's say you want to track how something you are working on is doing. You can look at it's web traffic on comScore, Compete, Quantcast, Alexa, etc. You can check out how it is doing on Google Trends. But if...
Topics: Mark Ghuneim, Trendrr, Wiredset

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