Bijan Sabet, a Tumblr director who is a general partner at Spark Capital, is optimistic.
Partner Bijan Sabet for example had previously spent ten years in Silicon Valley and is regularly in Silicon Valley.
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Knowing he was out of his depth, Seibert turned to one of his own investors, Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital.
Bijan is one of KL's best Malay restaurants, offering traditional dishes in a dining room that spills out into a tropical garden.
The larger fund is partly so that the firm can make selective larger investments when an opportunity arises, says Bijan Sabet, partner at Spark.
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"Almost all of our companies are looking for Android and iPhone developers, " said Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Spark Capital, a Boston venture capital firm, whose portfolio includes Twitter Inc.
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Bijan Sabet, our lead investor, is somebody who back when I was running my little consulting company, before Tumblr, we were a little software company called Davidville and I was working on a bunch of start-ups at the time, a couple start-ups that got funded both through Spark Capital and Bijan.
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Not long ago it was hospitable to foreigners: As oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, an ally of powerful former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in the late 1990s pushed through billions of dollars in agreements with Shell, France's Total, Italy's Eni, Schlumberger and Halliburton to develop large and technically challenging projects, such as Iran's huge South Pars field, which is believed to hold 7% of the world's natural gas supply.
Not too long ago it was hospitable to foreigners: As oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, an ally of powerful former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in the late 1990s pushed through billions of dollars in agreements with Shell, France's Total, Italy's Eni, Schlumberger and Halliburton to develop large and technically challenging projects, such as Iran's huge South Pars field, which is believed to hold 7% of the world's natural gas supply.
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