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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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Firms like Baseline, Felicis, ff Ventures, Founder Collective, Freestyle, HomeBrew, IA Ventures, K9, Lowercase, NextView, Resolute, Rincon, Crosscut and the countless other great firms we all now know didn’t exist. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures. I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. But if cloud was to be more economical than this there had to be a better solution.

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