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David Lane, Managing Director of Diamondhead Ventures

David Lane has, for the past 26 years, created, built and financed information and health care technology companies. During the past 20 years, he has directly managed venture capital funds totaling in excess of $2 Billion.

David was also a Managing Director of Onset Ventures and cofounder of Diamondhead Ventures, where he led the firm’s investments in Danger Inc. (acquired by Microsoft), Entercept Security Technologies (acquired by McAfee), Truviso (acquired by Cisco) and UPEK (acquired by AuthenTec).

Prior to Diamondhead Ventures, David was one of the senior venture capital investment officers at the Harvard Management Company, where he focused on making direct investments in seed to later stage opportunities in the information technology and health care sectors. During his investment career, David has sponsored more than 20 investments in the information technology software, semiconductor and services areas. Some of his prior venture capital investments include: Harmonic, Inc. (IPO), TriQuint Semiconductor (IPO), NexGen (IPO), Viewlogic Systems (IPO) and Harbridge Merchant Services (acquired by First Data Corporation). Read More...

Bink! A Treasure Hunt That Gives to Charity

Check out Bink, a fun and philanthropic Indiegogo Campaign:

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Sukanta Ganguly, Angel Investor & Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur who loves to build great products and build successful businesses. As an entrepreneur, I have an insatiable desire to do more. I stay hungry.

Always build with a global vision where I setup and managed global teams on many occasions. It has been hard work but very rewarding. I have had multiple opportunities to build out business in Asian continent, North America and Europe. I am a technocrat who builds businesses backed up with great products.

I am eager to see Mobile Payments grow globally, huge market and great opportunities lie ahead and I intend to be a part of the mobile growth. It makes me even more excited to see the proliferation of the payment models within the industry. Big Data has evolved as a huge market driver and has driven an amazing room to drive great businesses into play. Love the momentum of large data analytics with real time needs that the market is starting to expect from the technology offerings. Read More...

GrubMarket Raises $2M from Jerry Yang & GGV Capital

GrubMarket, a recent Founders Space Alumni, just raised another $2M. This comes on the heels of raising $600k.

The $2M comes from Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang and GGV Capital. Read More...

Boycott Pando Daily

“BOYCOTT PANDO DAILY!” Their article today on Weev glorifies and promotes the ideas of a white supremacist. No matter what Pando may think, this is not a balanced article. Clearly the blogger who wrote it admires aspects of Weev’s philosophy.

http://pando.com/2014/11/21/troll-tales-catching-up-with-weev-in-beirut/

Weev loves Bashar al-Assad, hates minorities, and admires terrorists like Timothy McVeigh. Read More...

Xspaced

Xspaced is a San Francisco based startup that specializes in interactive virtual tours for residential and commercial real estate: apartments, homes, offices, retail spaces, event venues, hotel suites, etc.

Hellow is Finalist in TNW USA Boost

Good news! Hellow, one of our alumni, is one of the finalist of the TNW USA Boost program. Check it out… http://thenextweb.com/voice/2014/11/19/tnw-usa-boost-program-almost-full-heres-20-awesome-startups/

Distill

Distill is offering a special startup marketing package. Just contact Jeff at [email protected] and mention Founders Space Special.

Many of you have met Jeff Goldsmith and love his work. He’s an active mentor at Founders Space. He also has an incredible team of designers, writers, marketers and coders, who have launched great marketing programs for over 20 years. Read More...

Startup Marketing: a Gift or a Re-gift?

by David Hattenbach, CEO of Hugg Technology

Tell me if this sounds familiar. You came up with what you think is a really great idea. You spent countless hours developing your idea into a workable demo. Then you developed an elevator pitch that went something like this – we are the (blank) for (blank). You then networked your ass off, selling yourself, your team and your elevator pitch to prospective investors and partners until you were able to raise some capital. You did it by telling everyone how great you are… and it worked! Now you’re ready to ramp up the marketing machine and grow the business to enormous heights.

Here’s where things can go sideways. What worked to get you where you are now may not get you to where you want to be. One of the biggest marketing mistakes I see startups make as they try to grow their customer base is that they talk about themselves too much. While this may be an effective way to get VCs excited about your business, it often fails to excite the target consumer. Read More...