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

Both Sides of the Table

Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014. With seed up massively between 2006–2014 and A and B rounds relatively flat what you see is a widening of the funnel going into traditional venture.

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Reflections on 2018: Richard Wolpert, The Soul Of A Deal

socalTECH

We do, as of the writing of this in early December, seem to be seeing a correction at this time. The biggest news was the continued bullish market now coming on ten years even though historical cycles show markets don't usually last more than 7-8 years. I had expected a correction much earlier in the year and I was wrong.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

I’m writing this series because if you better understand how VC firms work you can better target which firms make sense for you to speak with. I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

This is my sole objective for January of 2010. Today, I received this email from the BBB: We’re writing to let you know that during the past month the Reliability Report that we publish on Make It Work was accessed 6 times. 2006 Closed Complaints – 1. Now it gets good! Here are some stats.

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Flying With A Wounded Wing: Why Twitter Still Has More Than A Chance

Tech Zulu Event

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. What Twitter looked like soon after launch in 2006. Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) September 4, 2010.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

301 Please use the canonical URI&# , TRUE, 301); header(&# Location: $absoluteUri&# ); header(&# X-Canonical-URI: $absoluteUri&# ); // experimental header("Link: ; rel=canonical"); // experimental exit; } Subdomains are so 1999, also 2010 is the year of non-’ www’ URIs. It was fun to write, so go get the best out of it.

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