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What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?

Both Sides of the Table

In fact, if you add the capital flows of the past ten years, there have been just shy of $50 billion in net cash outlays. And that’s real cash that LPs can’t put to work in other asset classes. Another Area of Concern is in the Seed Investor Class. Final upfront lp survey data 2016 from Mark Suster.

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United Dwelling is one startup building something to solve California’s housing crisis

TechCrunch LA

After wrestling with recalcitrant homeowners, husbanding their parcels of land to keep their property values high, the state’s leadership passed a law that increased the availability of new rental units and put more money into homeowners’ pockets in 2016. “We go to the homeowner and say you have this property here.

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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. These terms refer to a class of professional investors who invest their own money, like angels, but have the larger resources and scope of venture capitalists with other people’s money.

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Bio Roundup: FDA Says No, PCSK9 Value Fight, CRISPR Intrigue & More

Xconomy

And once in a while, a defender uses his or her face, inadvertently, to block a ball spiked over the net. Data from the other three trials should come in late 2016 or early 2017. Talk about sacrifice. If drug approval were an Olympic sport, rejections would also be high drama.

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Reflections on 2016: Greg Cohn, Burner

socalTECH

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. It's a fantastic demonstration of the potential of "open" phone numbers, which are traditional phone numbers enhanced with first-class consumer applications. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.