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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. What gives? The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000.

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JULY 14, 2010

The round was led by Global Gateway Investment Group (G2iG), and also includes Frontera Group LLC, CSK Venture Capital Co. Morphlabs said that the funding will go to accelerate expansion in the United States and Asia. Morphlabs is developing a cloud-based computing appliance which is used to manage and deploy elastic computing clouds.

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JUNE 28, 2011

The trend of funding anything from the first $25k to funding $50 million at a billion+ valuation is unlikely to last as the skills and style to be effective at all stages are diverse enough to warrant focus. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well.

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MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

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MAY 22, 2010

One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. billion (plus an earn out that could have totalled $4 billion but didn’t in the end) in 2005 before selling 65% of the company in 2009 for $1.9 “Huddle helps businesses connect, share and work better together.

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