fbFund is a $10M seed fund supporting developers and entrepreneurs on Facebook Platform.
We provide funding, mentoring, and marketing.
We provide funding, mentoring, and marketing.
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- September 2007
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- Get ready for fbFund REV 2009! 1:06pm May 28|20 Comments
- fbFund 2009 Top 50 Finalists 12:57pm May 28|15 Comments
- fbFund 2.0: It Takes a Village (of Geeks)... announcing our first 25 of 50 Finalists 11:31am May 18|11 Comments
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fbFund Demo DayCreated about 12 months ago
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fbFund fbFund REV startup, Weardrobe, got acquired by Like.com. Congrats to the team!
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I'm a big fan of street style focused-fashion, microblogging sites, like Weardrobe, where anyone can post pictures of their coordinated outfits for others ...
Now that the 2009 fbFund REV social incubator program has wrapped up, i thought i’d post some slides from a talk i’ve been doing recently. The talk is about our experience at fbFund REV, and about incubator programs in general, as well as some lessons learned from what worked (& ...
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Of course! I can name many successful tech companies that started outside of Silicon Valley. However, after spending 12 weeks working out of the fbFund Rev incubator program in Palo Alto, it was clear that NutshellMail needed to maintain a presence in the Silicon Valley Geek-o-system. You hav...
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As fbFund REV wraps up for the summer, many have asked what we’ve gotten out of our experience and if we’d recommend it to future companies. I’d answer with “lots” and “definitely yes.” REV was a huge momentum shift for Thread, and here’s how.Vote...
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REV was a big commitment for GroupCard. It meant moving our development team from Milwaukee to Palo Alto, subletting a small two-bedroom house for the team (at thirty-three freaking hundred dollars a month), and saying farewell to friends and family for the summer.So was it worth it? Without a do...
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Yesterday, we wrapped up a great event for our first fbFund REV social incubator. Congratulations to the fbFund REV companies! They showcased their progress and accomplishments to over 300 investors, press, and other members of our community.Announcement highlightsThread.com (formerly Frintro) ra...
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fbFund Some thoughts on domain acquisition!
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, an internet consultant at ACS, stopped by fbFund this afternoon to talk about domain acquisition, breaking it down into what he sees as a five step process: Brainstorm, Research, Approach, Negotiate, and Acquire +Test.
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Deep-dive on quick and dirty user testing featuring Cindy Alvarez
http://www.cindyalvarez.com/
Featuring Cindy Alvarez
Time:12:00PM Wednesday, September 9th
Location:fbFund REV Garage
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Lessons from Y Combinator:
-How has Y-Combinator changed since its inception? Lessons learned, market adaptations?
-What startup/entrepreneur habits have you noticed that help your companies be more successful?
-As each incubator program wraps up, how have your startups been successful in closing on funding?
Paul Graham ...is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired a new generation of filters. He's currently working on a new programming language called Arc, a new book on startups, and is one of the partners in Y Combinator.
Paul is the author of On Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1993), ANSI Common Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1995), and Hackers & Painters (O'Reilly, 2004). He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
Paulgraham.com got 10.6 million page views in 2008.
http://www.paulgraham.com/
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Stay afterwards for BBQ and drinks!
Time:4:00PM Friday, September 4th
Location:fbFund REV Garage
fbFund via Facebook Platform . fbFund REV: "Oh! The Places You'll Go" blog post recaps the Demo Day event.
developers.facebook.com
Yesterday, we wrapped up a great event for our first fbFund REV social incubator. Congratulations to the fbFund REV companies! They showcased their progress and accomplishments to over 300 investors, press, and other members of our community.
Check out our live stream and slides below! Webcam chat at Ustream | Get your Presentation Pack Share on Facebook
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fbFund Join us LIVE for the event at 12:30pm!
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Today, at one of our old offices in downtown Palo Alto, it's graduation day for our first fbFund REV social incubator program round. We're wrapping up a packed summer of innovation, collaboration, and hard work with a packed house of VCs, press, Facebook employees, and entrepreneurs who will be on h...
What do you love about travel?For me, it’s the anticipation of the adventures to come, the cool, new experiences, the GOOD FOOD and the awesome people you meet.Traveling is the fun part.The process that leads up to the moment that you finally have that boarding pass in hand, waiting to hop on tha...
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Raising capital is something that almost every startup faces at some point in their development. Over the course of my career as an entrepreneur, I’ve discovered a number of tips and tricks, some by trial and error, and some by listening to the sage advice of other investors, advisors and ...
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