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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

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The problem with VC Seed Funding – Chris is right to raise the issue with entrepreneurs because there have been instances where large VC funds have set up seed programs where the investments have been used as “options.&# There are many problems with this. Let me explain: 1. million investment.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. Index Seed : Index Ventures carves out seed fund from existing $400mm fund.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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But I promise you nobody I know is actively enjoying the correction in the way that some entrepreneurs seem to think VCs are. Back then Michael Arrington accused some of Silicon Valley’s top seed funds of “colluding” by meeting secretly to talk down the valuation of startups. That was written in September 2008.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

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. ► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. It turned out that this drove even more demand for StrongMail. ► October (1) New Video!

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.