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

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If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. Time will tell. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Want To Be A TechStar? Read Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson’s New Book: Venture Deals

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You can watch my interview with Brad below or on YouTube here: [link]. Brad is also the Co-Founder of TechStars , an acclaimed startup boot camp which has spawned a number of promising companies. It falls into three categories. There’s the category of VCs who are all for more transparency.

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How ConsumerTrack Has Created A Growing, Profitable--and Mostly Unknown Business

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In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. However, this town is also full of very profitable, growing, and revenue generating companies-- which have for the most part been below the radar.

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Interview with Adam Bernhard, HauteLook

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To understand why investors are finding the firm so interesting, and why the company raised such a large round, we spoke with Adam Bernhard , CEO of the firm, about the company and funding, how email has allowed the firm to get past the "Google trap" of marketing on the web, and where the firm is going.

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Interview: Seth Epstein of SocialStay

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Seth attended UCSB but dropped out to start a denim company. . Do you have any advice for emerging entrepreneurs regarding how they can be frugal without compromising their company’s value prop? Yeah, I have made plenty of mistakes in this category in the past. constantly looking and interviewing.”. Meredith Publishing.

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

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Webtide is designed to be a company which is the expert on using Jetty in companies. Adam Lieber: I think the business model for any particular open source company depends on the open source. They all were very different companies. Adam Lieber: Skype and IRC is our main communications channels in our company.

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