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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. Public stock market trades by senior executives of corporations. Same with university data. Healthcare data.

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