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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.) My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) This is cheaper for them than waiting for big competitors and buying companies at big prices.

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