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When should you go for equity financing?

Berkonomics

In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. Here is a class of investor we’ve covered before, one usually focused upon you and less upon your business case. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. Accelerators.

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

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At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. 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.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . Why do they invest in venture capital?

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The 5 Criteria That Matter When Evaluating A College Entreprenurial Program

InfoChachkie

In my role as a Professor of Practice within UC Santa Barbara’s entrepreneurial Technology Management Program (TMP), I have worked with approximately 8,000 students over a ten year period. Practitioners, Not Professors – classes should be taught by people who have fought hand-to-hand combat in the startup trenches.

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

InfoChachkie

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? The time spent reading Enchantment will net a significant return. Positive ROI.

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Please go see “Waiting for Superman.” Here’s Why:

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It has long been believed that people from lower-income neighborhoods can’t learn as well as middle & upper class ones due to environment issues such as problems at home and trouble in the neighborhood. It is a country that by foundation believes in capitalism as the best model of producing an equal society.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source.