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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m Across more than 10 years we have kept the size of our Seed investments between $2–3.5

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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What is it Like to Negotiate a VC Round?

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This was until about 2009 because most the investments in companies came from one, maybe two, sources. In the old days there usually weren’t convertible notes on early-stage deals and there weren’t party rounds with 20 angels or 6 seed funds. So how DOES a VC think about financings at early stages? It’s very simple.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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But when I’m looking to write my check I need to look in the eyes of the captain — the maestro who brings the whole orchestra together. He wanted to raise angel money. I joined GRP Partners in 2007 before they raised their current fund (we closed a $200 million fund in March 2009). I told him to quit his job first.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. I am not suggesting these are bad sources of capital – they are not.

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