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TechStar Co-Founder @BFeld: Are We Experiencing A Startup Accelerator Bubble?

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In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. By mid-2011 he noted, “As seed accelerators have exploded in number world-wide, it’s become nearly impossible to keep this (Google Doc) working.” That said, is a two or three or year program that goes away…a net negative?

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

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Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. Sending the docs via email is less friction than making people come to a data room.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

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That said, there are times where you need to cast a wider net. But as it goes to the legal docs naturally 20 issues arise the require negotiations. On balance I usually prefer to recruit people from my network both in terms of saving costs as well as hiring people I know & trust. You want the deal to close in 4 weeks.