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

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Round sizes of > $100 million or more now account for 47% of all VC dollars (62% if you count rounds > $50 million) This has made venture capital significantly more valuable for VCs and LPs who invest in the best companies As part of our study we noticed a trend many have spotted but few have explained?—?why

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Study: $48 Billion In Value Created Over 15 Years In SoCal IT VC-Backed Firms

SoCal Delicious

A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. Funk then focused the analysis on the 731 documented exits for the period 1995-2009. IPO in 1996).

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OK, So Maybe Not ALL MBA Entrepreneurs Are Oxymorons

InfoChachkie

According to a recent Pitchbook Data study , the number of VC-backed entrepreneurs at the top three MBA programs from 2006 – 2018 were de minimis , as a percent of the total graduates: Stanford 8.1%, Harvard 2.9% That said, the great majority of MBA graduates are best suited for a life on Wall Street or as a big company consultant.

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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By late 2005 and 2006, we saw the return of 3D movies, made possible by the digital projectors. Our system uses a different technique, based on the study of the human brain over the past 40 years. Gene Dolgoff: Back when I was doing holography work in the late 60's, I was also studying physics and making some amazing discoveries.

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Race 4 My Place Brings $200,000 Mortgage Payoff To Social Gaming

Tech Zulu Event

Model Home, LLC, a model purchase/lease back company that worked with some of the biggest names in the home building industry, and was riding the high of housing market boom until the 2006 real estate market crash. Shortly following, PopRox was able to raise a significant chunk of money.

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Google For Icons | IconFinder Providing The Best for Developers and Designers

Tech Zulu Event

Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Steffen was working in another startup called 1Calendar and studying as well. We both studied at Copenhagen business school. What were you doing before IconFinder?

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The 1/9/90 Rule of UGC & Why It’s OK to Have Lurkers

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And more embarassingly to me Garindra Prahandono gave me this link to an article written by the guru of web design, Jakob Nielsen about the 1/9/90 rule written back in 2006. It’s existed in every online community and multi-user service that has ever been studied. But perhaps the lurker category is smaller.