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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds. But rest assured valuations get reset. And reset they must.

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Startup Professionals Musings

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. Product or service readiness.

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Understanding the Dreaded Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process. Product or service readiness.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Bad times often require more capital but ironically this is when capital is dried up. I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking.

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

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If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. The short version of my review is: “Enchanting? At the beginning of the index, Guy writes, “I hope Robert Cialdini checks this index.” Positive ROI.

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

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The book is a layman’s guide to understanding how we as humans make decisions and is underpinned by data-oriented studies to prove his claims. Before booking a hotel I always check out Trip Advisor and read reviews. If you haven’t read it you should definitely buy it – other people just like you did.

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