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Sell at the top? Avoid the race to zero!

Berkonomics

Competitors, seeing a successful development of a niche, flock into the competitive void with products or services built with a fresh view of the current environment. So, the question: load up with more equity and dilution? Or sell now?

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. dot-com bonanza. Ten years on much has changed.

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KPCB has already blown through much of the $600 million it raised last year

TechCrunch LA

“This could also be due to changes in the competitive landscape … and there may be changes with First Round Capital itself,” says one investor. “Everybody thinks valuations are too high since 2011 and people are thinking there’s going to be a recession. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020.

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Interview with Simon Anderson, DreamHost

socalTECH

However, the founder recognized back in early 2011 that they wanted to take the platform to another level, and get DreamHosting in front of a much bigger audience, worldwide. I was hired back in the middle of 2011, and have now been ceo for about two and a half years. So, for us, competition is good.

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Data Collective | New Dawn for Big Data Entrepreneurs

Tech Zulu Event

A 2011 McKinsey Global report says Big Data is the next frontier for innovation,competition and productivity, this could be reason the seasoned investors and executives believe these are big data days. 35+ Equity Partners on board. Big Data Shift. They say they have run Hadoop jobs and built VM farms.

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CapLinked Announces New Investors, Signs Up New Clients & Builds New Features

Tech Zulu Event

Essner added, “They have a beautiful, modern, workflow-friendly transaction management solution for corporate development teams, sell-side advisors, and private equity firms, as well as an extremely driven and impressive team that is perfectly positioned to take advantage of this big opportunity to disrupt the financial technology sector.”.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). o Put a timeframe/money – competition in the picture. Don’t and you might make one catastrophic mistake that leaves you in the annals of Effed Companies. He told them it was now or never.