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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

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But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. And while the US had FANG (Facebook, Amazon/Apple, Netflix and Google) China has BAT (Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent). Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather.

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

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I do regular (almost daily) “Snapstorms” of content around one topic for entrepreneurs and VCs. It has Vice, Tastemade, Vox, ESPN, Comedy Central, BuzzFeed and more. In fact, it’s the most important tool for media to come along since Twitter, FB, YouTube and Netflix. But I promise to elaborate another day.

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