John Furrier on Venture Capital: Freestyle Capital Closes Early Stage $27 million dollar venture fund September 13, 2011
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Freestyle Capital Exploding on The Scene Closes $27m Fund, More Exits Coming
Two respected tech entrepreneurs Josh Felser and Dave Samuel officially announced their early-stage VC firm Freestyle Capital. Although Dan Primack of Fortune Term Sheet blog 
reported that Freestyle’s fund been public for sometime, it appears the Freestyle team wanted to announce exclusively at the Techcrunch event.
Freestyle’s two founders are entrepreneurs and have been together for over 14 years. Their magic is their knack or nose for good deals plus they have experience to add value on startup execution.
John Furrier on Venture Capital: Menlo Ventures $20 million dollar fund September 13, 2011
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Menlo Ventures Launches $20 Million Early Stage/Talent Fund
Shervin Pershevar announced on stage at the AOL TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference 
that he and Menlo Ventures has started a $20 million fund. The fund will be called the Menlo Talent Fund.
Shervin and his team at Menlo Ventures will invest $200,000 in early stage startups. According to the news Menlo will turn around a decision super fast – within two days.
