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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. They are, in fact, great news for traditional venture capitalists. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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I guess it may be impractical for Twitter to acquire Seesmic given it has raised considerable amounts of venture capital (reportedly $12 million) but the broader point for me is that I always believed Twitter should control the client versions of its product. Think about the creative tension. Kind of obvious, huh?

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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It required content sites to develop totally new content. I’m now a VC. Everybody and their mothers are coming into my offices proclaiming that their developing the latest iPhone App. And being gateways to the customer they naturally extracted their pound of flesh from mobile application developers.

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