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Aileen Lee, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner, talks about opportunities for women in technology

Aileen Lee is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, having joined the firm in 1999. Her primary area of focus is working with consumer-oriented digital companies. Aileen has worked closely with the teams at companies such as Blue Nile (Nasdaq: Nile), Bloom Energy, Friendster (acquired by MOL Global), Good Technology (acquired by MOT), shopkick, Tellme (acquired by Microsoft) and Zazzle. She currently works with companies including Callaway Digital Arts, Offermatic, One Kings Lane, Plum District, Rent the Runway, Trendyol and RMG Networks (formerly Danoo), where she served as the founding CEO for two years.

Before joining KPCB, Aileen worked at Gap Inc. in various operating roles. She has also worked for Odwalla and for The North Face in brand and product marketing. Aileen began her career at Morgan Stanley in technology mergers and acquisitions.

Aileen has a bachelor of science degree from MIT and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She is also a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

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Michael Moe (NASDAQ: GSVC), Social Media 2.0 King

Michael T. Moe's Experience

co-founder and CEO
GSV Asset Management
September 2010 – Present (1 year 3 months) Silicon Valley

GSV Asset Management is a growth focused money management firm that has a hedge fund and a public closed end fund on NASDAQ (GSVC) that primarily invest in leading VC backed private companies.
co-Founder and CEO
The Next Companies
September 2008 – May 2011 (2 years 9 months)

the Next Companies is a constellation of interrelated firms that invest, provide insight and advise in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Co-founder, Chairman and CEO
ThinkEquity Partners LLC
Public Company; 51-200 employees; PMR; Investment Banking industry
June 2001 – September 2008 (7 years 4 months)

*growth focused investment firm with 300 professionals globally with instutional brokerage, investment banking, research, weath management and asset management.
Director of Global Growth Research
Merrill Lynch
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BAC; Financial Services industry
1998 – 2001 (3 years)

Senior Managing Director
Montgomery Securities
Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Investment Banking industry
1995 – 1998 (3 years)

Vice President
Lehman Brothers
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; LEH; Capital Markets industry
1993 – 1995 (2 years)

Michael T. Moe's Education

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Economics
1981 – 1985

newBrandAnalytics raises $26 million in venture funds

newBrandAnalytics raises $26 million in venture funds. D.C.-based newBrandAnalytics has raised $26 million in venture funding.
NewBrandAnalytics, which specializes in ferreting out customer feedback on hospitality businesses, said it would use the funds to accelerate its growth and sign up more customers. The company uses a software product called Social Guest Satisfaction to scour a variety of social media sites for credible customer feedback. It then analyzes, interprets, and categorizes each customer mention, using them to create business intelligence reports for hotels, restaurants, retailers and leisure companies.

Skimlinks Continues Rapid Global Growth, Raises $7.5 Million To-Date for Its Leading In-text Monetization Platform

Skimlinks, the leading in-text monetization platform for Web publishers, today announced it has raised $4.5 million in Series B funding. Led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), the new investment will help continue Skimlinks' rapid growth in existing and new vertical markets within the United States and around the globe. It will also finance product research and development that will deliver even higher yields for publishers, improve consumer experience, and increase ROI for advertisers.
"We chose BDMI to lead this round because of its stellar experience in both online publishing and advertising," said Alicia Navarro, CEO of Skimlinks. "We're delighted that all of our investors continue to believe in the value Skimlinks delivers, and we look forward to using this investment to continue our rapid expansion throughout Europe and the United States."

Lot18 Raises $30 Million in Series C Funding - Accel, NEA, FirstMark

Lot18, the New York-based company that is changing the way Americans buy wine and gourmet food, today announced that it has completed a $30 million Series C financing led by Accel Partners. Sameer Gandhi, who led Accel's investments in Bonobos, Spotify and StumbleUpon, will join Lot18's board of directors. Lot18's earlier backers, New Enterprise Associates and FirstMark Capital, are also contributing to the new round of financing. The funds will support continued growth, as well as further technological and product development, particularly the expansion of Lot18 Gourmet and Experiences, the company's food and travel verticals, respectively.

Lot18 was founded in 2010 by Kevin Fortuna and Philip James. Fortuna was formerly the CEO of Quigo, an advertising technology company that was sold to AOL Time Warner for $360 million in November 2007. James was the Founder and CEO of Snooth, the world's largest wine website.

Lot18 connects its members with exclusive, limited-time opportunities to purchase directly from wineries, gourmet-food producers and other makers of artisanal goods. Each product or experience featured on Lot18 is individually evaluated for quality by Lot18's team of experts. Lot18 is headquartered in New York.

Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned. Simplify Your Life

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revolutionizing data storage. David Flynn, co-founder CEO of Fusion-IO (NASDAQ: FIO)

About Fusion-io
Fusion-io is a pioneer of a new storage memory platform that significantly improves the processing capabilities within a data center by moving process-critical, or active data closer to the CPU where it is processed. Called shared data decentralization, this significantly reduces latency while increasing data center efficiency. Fusion’s integrated hardware and software solutions leverage non-volatile memory for enterprise-grade performance, reliability, availability and manageability.
The Data Supply Problem: Servers Sitting Idle
Founded in 2005 by a management team with experience in transaction processing, high-performance networking, storage, superclusters, and computing and image processing, Fusion-io recognized that mechanical storage architectures do not keep pace with advances in digital processing power. This meant that despite major advances in technology, data processing was limited to the speed of legacy storage infrastructures. Without a solution designed to maximize their capabilities, modern CPUs sit idle while they wait for data to process.

David A. Flynn
David A. Flynn is one of our founders and has served as a director since July 2006 and was appointed as the Chairman of our board of directors in May 2011. Mr. Flynn has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President since March 2010 and previously served as our President from inception to February 2009 and Chief Technology Officer from inception to March 2010. From November 2004 to October 2006, Mr. Flynn served as chief scientist of Realm Systems, Inc., a company offering research and development services for developing mobile computing platforms. From January 2002 to November 2004, Mr. Flynn served as chief architect software engineer of Linux Networx, Inc., a developer of high performance computing technology. From 1996 to 2002, Mr. Flynn served as senior software engineer of Liberate Technologies, Inc. From 1995 to 1996, Mr. Flynn founded the Utah research and development satellite office of Oracle Corporation, which subsequently became a founding part of Network Computer Inc., later renamed Liberate Technologies. Mr. Flynn holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.

...and so it begins. Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) begins life as a public company

Groupon sold 35 million shares at $20 apiece, setting its initial market value at $12.7 billion. Shares closed at $26.11 a share in its first day of trading on Nasdaq, up 31% from its IPO price.




About Us
Launched in November 2008, Groupon features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in 45 countries, and soon beyond (read: Space). We have about 10,000 employees working across our Chicago headquarters, a growing office in Palo Alto, CA, local markets throughout North America and regional offices in Europe, Latin America, Asia and around the world.

Our company philosophy is pretty simple: we treat our customers the way we like to be treated. That boils down to a few key things:

We sell stuff we want to buy. A great price is only half the battle - it's also got to be a great product or service. Between our top-rated business partners and unbeatable prices, you should feel comfortable venturing out and trying something new - just because it's featured on Groupon. We want Groupon to be an addiction you can feel good about.