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TechCrunch  5 days ago:

Silicon Valley To London, Passion Capital Hires Ex-Facebook Recruiter As Head Of Talent -

Hoping to lighten the recruitment burden for its portfolio companies, Passion Capital, the London-based early-stage VC, has announced that it's hired ex-Facebooker Melissa Trahan to the new position of "Head of Talent".
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CrunchGear  May 20 13 :

Founders Fund Backs Its First Food Tech Startup, Hampton Creek Foods, With A $1M Investment -

Founders Fund, the firm founded by Peter Thiel and other PayPal executives, famously declared that it wants to back companies with big, ambitious visions (not just dinky web startups).
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CrunchGear  May 03 13 :

Roelof Botha On Why Sequoia Isn't Giving Its Billion-Dollar Companies IPO Pressure [TCTV] -

A funny thing has happened in tech in recent years. It used to be that you could expect a venture-backed company to file for an IPO soon after a few rounds of funding -- after, say, its Series C or Series D raise.
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CrunchGear  Mar 19 13 :

With Increased Student Interest In The Enterprise, Kleiner Perkins Debuts Second Engineering Fellows Program -

In 2011, Kleiner Perkins debuted its plans for a summer internship program to place top engineering talent from colleges at the firm's portfolio companies.
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TechCrunch  Mar 18 13 :

Enterprise-Focused Emergence Capital Takes On Alison Berkley Wagonfeld As Operating Partner -

Emergence Capital Partners, an enterprise-focused venture firm that has backed Salesforce.com, Yammer and Box, just took on a new operating partner with the hiring of Alison Berkley Wagonfeld.
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Redeye VC  Feb 06 13 :

Hiring Female Engineers -

We host 50+ events for our portfolio companies a year -- and historically we've held off on sharing the content widely, since we viewed it as a benefit that came from being a member of the First Round Capital community.
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TechCrunch  Jan 22 13 :

Lazada, Rocket Internet’s Amazon Effort In Asia, Gets Nearly $20M More From Rocket Regular Tengelmann -

Rocket Internet, the Samwer brothers' e-commerce startup incubator, is today announcing yet more money for one of its portfolio companies.
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TechCrunch UK  Jan 16 13 :

MuckerLab Graduates Its Class Of 2013, Its Last Class Has Raised Over $15M To Date -

MuckerLab, the up-and-coming L.A.-based accelerator program is hosting its demo day for the 10 portfolio companies in its winter class today.
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