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What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?

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” I suspect that over the next 18 months, they’ll see another phenomenon that they likely haven’t seen since 2008-09: mark-downs of the VCs’ portfolios. I have also heard LPs express concern over the last few years about the seed stage of venture. We’ve also become very adept at partnering with seed funds.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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” The new narrative is “will my seed funds be able to fund the prorata of their winners?” ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Seed funds now represent 67% of all funds being created now, which is up 100% from 6 years ago. The iPhone was released.

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

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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. Of course a group of 10 seed funds can’t fix the prices of a market. That was written in September 2008. In Summary. What hogwash.

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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. Venture Capital Funding 7. ► October (1) New Video! . Relaxing 2. Incubation 3.

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