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

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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. As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing). What gives?

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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Since 2006 I have been lamenting what I see as “the Facebook problem&# – they are trying to lump me into one big social network. We are also seeing the growth of social networks around topics of interest like StockTwits for people interested in investing in the stock market. I predict this will come before the end of 2012.