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A man rides a unicycle across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan.

Gowanus-Based VC Still Favors New Companies With New $15M Fund

"If they’re not going out of business, I probably didn’t take enough risk.”
By Brady Dale
Deniz Nazarov (left) and Jesse Walden, Mediachain's co-founders.

Mediachain Automates Attribution Online—Here’s How

What if people could locate content by its concept rather than the server it happens to live on?
By Brady Dale
There is some doubt as to whether driverless cars can make the same snap judgments as human drivers.

Self-Driving Cars Will Be Good Investments Long Before They Go Fully Automated

First Round Capital's founder predicts that no one will learn to drive anymore in 35 years, but as the field proceeds incrementally, it could be lucrative sooner.
By Brady Dale

DogVacay Just Raised a $15M Series B Somehow Not Led by Marc Andreessen’s Dog

By Kelly Faircloth

Best Tech Events This Week (Open Tech NYC, First Round Capital Business+Startup, Columbia University Earth Summit, Fashion Disrupted, Startup Grind, NYC Gaming)

By Gary Sharma

Here Comes Aereo! Service Expanding to 22 New Cities [UPDATED]

By Kelly Faircloth and Nitasha Tiku

First Round Capital Couldn’t Choose Between ‘Call Me Maybe’ and ‘Gangnam Style’ for Its Holiday Video

By Nitasha Tiku

Shopping Sites According to Their VCs? First Round Capital Showcases Exclusive Deals from Its Portfolio

By Nitasha Tiku
Mr. Gross.

With Its $9 M. Series A, Percolate Might Become the Next Buddy Media By Turning Brands Into Microbloggers

By Nitasha Tiku

Booting Up: Hacking Press Coverage for Fun and Profit

By Kelly Faircloth

Fab Raises Another $105 M. from a Skype Cofounder Just Seven Months After Locking Down a $40 M. Series B

By Nitasha Tiku
John Yoo (Photo: Facebook)

Oprah and Eric Schmidt Back Cory Booker’s New Startup #waywire, a Media Site for Millenials

By Nitasha Tiku

Dog Vacay, the Airbnb for Dogs, Launches In New York City

By Nitasha Tiku
Mr. Leidlein (redeye.firstround.com)

Jack Leidlein, First Round’s New Head of Talent, Wants To Hire You

By Jessica Roy

Aereo Picks Up $20.5 M. for a Thumbnail-Sized HD Antenna to Stream Local TV in NYC

By Nitasha Tiku
via BrooklynBridgeVentures.com

Former First Round Capital Principal Charlie O’Donnell Launches Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, a Seed Stage Fund

By Nitasha Tiku
VCs in the front seat, VCs in the back seat

Startups Singing Badly – The First Round Capital Holiday Card Is Here (VIDEO)

By Ben Popper
Mr. Blier with his daily brew.

Percolate Raises $1.5 M. and Turns Away from Consumers to Helping Brands Curate Content

By Nitasha Tiku

The Great Coffee Shop Boycott

By Adrianne Jeffries

Chloe+Isabel Raise $8.5 Million Series A Led By General Catalyst

By Ben Popper
Reap what you sow

Fund Em’? I Barely Know Em’!

By Ben Popper

Charlie Hit On Me! One Silicon Alley VC’s Quest for Love and Other Startups

By Ben Popper and Adrianne Jeffries
The broker techies (and venture capitalists) trust.

The Online World's Brick-and-Mortar Man

By Daniel Edward Rosen

GroupMe’s Exit to Skype a Big Win for New York’s Young Tech Investors

By Ben Popper
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