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What’s your business “end game?” 

Berkonomics

Accepting venture capital or angel money is to create a contract between the investors and the entrepreneur that the business will someday be sold or even go public to create an exit for the investors. Is your business one that may be sold for profit someday? It starts with each early step in the process of building the enterprise.

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Understanding What’s Going on in #LATech

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See in the end, in LA VC firms are far more collaborative than competitive. for future Upfront Ventures growth :) but when we heard a year ago that they were joining forces we were super happy for them and for LA. We love LA!

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What if your business runs out of money?   

Berkonomics

If fixed expenses, especially payroll, are paid out before cash is received from services or shipments, the company is financing its growth with ever-increasing working capital needs. It seems that the first subject that comes up in such assignments is the health of the competition. Such bargains; so little time.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. I will use some examples from Parachute and some other portfolio companies to give you examples from our experiences of watching successful brands grow.

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Why I Look for Obsessive and Competitive Founders

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He wants to compete to be the lead drummer in the competitive ensemble and study under Terence, an obsessive instructor who is hell bent on winning competitions for the school. But the film has my brain buzzing all week about obsessive and competitive people. I absolutely loved the film. I loved the music. We revere musicians.

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Why Venture Capital is So Much More Compelling Now

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It’s not hard to find people willing to write the narrative that “venture capital is not an asset class” or “venture capital has performed terribly.” Having worked through the data with Glenn I am even more optimistic about venture capital than I was even a year ago.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.