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October 22, 2007
Puzzler Winner - VC Know-Who
Last week's puzzler question
Since early 2006, at least three European venture capital firms have recruited former Yahoo (Europe) executives to their rosters. Name two VC firms that are benefitting from some Yahoo know-how and know-who.
The answer could have been any two of the following
3i - Daniel Waterhouse
Index Ventures - Dominique Vidal
Accel (London) - Simon Levene
This week's Puzzler was a bit too puzzling, and as a result we have only one winner. The first to write in was Yakov Sadchikov (image right in London), founder of VC-backed Quintura, a multi-lingual search technology company.
He is well-informed, which you would expect from a search engine CEO, and often tips us off to news from Russia when he has time. (For more on Qunitura, see our Q&A published last year here)
Just three other readers wrote in with the correct answer to this stumper of a question. We were hoping for at least thirteen. So we thought to give an honorable mention to those that did. Two who answered correctly are venture capital professionals, Max Niederhofer who recently joined Atlas Venture (he has a blog ) and Fredrik Cassel, a principal at Creandum Advisor in Sweden.
The other reader to write in with the correct answer, like this week's winner, is a co-founder of a search engine company. But we are not going to mention his name just yet -- his startup is still in stealth mode.
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