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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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The market was down considerably with public valuations down 53–79% across the four sectors we were reviewing (it is since down even further). ==> Aside, we also have a NEW LA-based partner I’m thrilled to announce: Nick Kim. First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds.

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

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There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. I actually really enjoyed many of the points Muhammad made about marketing in general and I found myself nodding through the entirety of the article except for it’s core premise. Doesn’t.

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6 Ways To Improve Your Odds Of New Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus I was pleased to see my own insights covered in a new book, “ Why Startups Fail ,” by Tom Eisenmann, a Harvard Business School professor, who has mentored many more entrepreneurs, and authored more than a hundred HBS case studies from real-world startups. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills.

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7 Costs To Consider Before Taking Your Startup Public

Startup Professionals Musings

According to TheStreet , US IPO market results in Q2 2020 posted a strong bounce-back from Q1 with 58 IPOs, after a slow start due to the Covid19 pandemic. Key drivers for the drop this quarter are the general negative numbers for Q2 earnings, and concerns about how quickly or slowly the world will emerge from the pandemic.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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Talk about Telesign and what you do? Telesign was the first thing we were working on, but there were a bunch of different little businesses we started all about the same time. Ryan Disraeli: I was studying business with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. I was about 19 at the time. What were you majoring in?

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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VC's love to talk about their successes. I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. com> 4/25/08.