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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing). What gives?

Venture Capital 328

Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

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JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. They knew the venture math that if only 50 companies / year are sold North of $100 million the entry price for their investments mattered.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

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JUNE 3, 2010

And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Current round: $3.35mm in Series A by TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s personal investment vehicle), Saban Ventures, Founder Collective, SK Telecom Ventures. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. LibreDigital. Orchard for e-Books”. MetaMarkets.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318