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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
TEDxSV: Reid Hoffman On Philanthropic Movements On The Web	We’re at TEDxSV, a Silicon Valley outpost of TED’s conferences on innovation, which is taking place today at Stanford University. First up is LinkedIn founder and angel investor Reid Hoffman, who is addressing the concept of iMovements on the web. I’ll be live-blogging his remarks. Hoffman says that one of his ambitions is to be a public intellectual, to be able to influence millions of people with innovations and change. Hoffman thinks that the internet, which is scalable a...	December 12, 2009
Credit Karma Raises $2.5 Million To Take The Mystery Out Of Credit Scores	Credit Karma, a site that looks to help consumers understand, track, and improve their credit scores, has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round led by QED Investors, with participation from SV Angel, Aydin Senkut, and Founders Fund, via FF Angel. Credit Karma, which launched in March 2008, is a site that features free credit checks, educational guides, and tools for analyzing your credit score’s current status (presented as a ‘report card’) and for optimizing your cred...	November 04, 2009
Unstable Value Funds (5 - CMBS Edition)	Over the last two months, the assets underlying most stable value funds have done well, and short ABS, CMBS, and RMBS bonds have rallied. Insurance debt as well. But just when you think you can relax, S&P comes in to jolt confidence. Here are some articles: More on S&P and Possible CMBS Downgrades Potential S&P CMBS Downgrades S&P Awakes From Slumber, Downgrades CMBS Commercial Mortgage Bonds Weaken As S&P Flags Downgrade Risk In Commercial-Property Market, Hope for Re...	June 02, 2009
Ooma Offline: If You Wanna Be A Phone Company, You Can’t Go Dead (Redux)	Exactly one year ago today, a widespread outage hit Google’s GrandCentral (recently upgraded and relaunched as Google Voice). At the time, we wrote “If you want to be a phone company, and get your users to rely on you to manage all of your incoming calls, this simply cannot happen”. A year later those words ring true as a widespread outage has hit another VoIP provider: Ooma, the device that offers users free phone service for life. Beginning around five hours ago, Ooma u...	April 13, 2009
TC50: Angel Investors Say Now Is Their Time	We’re in the middle of a wider economic downturn, there are no IPOs, funding is getting thin, but are the Angels unhappy? It looks like not. The downturn has sorted out the wheat from the chaff, the bar has been raised and they feel well-placed against even some of the biggest VC funds. Lucky, then, that working with startups remains a passion for these guys. Jason Calacanis chaired the panel. Panellists: Ron Conway, Angel Investor Yossi Vardi, Investor and Entrepreneur David Kidder, Found...	September 08, 2008
The Matt Cohler Exit Interview	Early Facebook executive Matt Cohler announced his departure today to join top tier venture fund Benchmark Capital. I spent nearly half an hour this afternoon talking to him about his decision to join Benchmark Capital, his predictions for Facebook and a variety of topics that we touched on via various non sequiturs. Joining us was Benchmark Capital General Partner Bill Gurley as well. This was a surprising move in many ways. Cohler was definitely one of the “inside guys” at Facebook...	June 20, 2008