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Praying to the God of Valuation

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Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? They were a way to gather cheap capital.

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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

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million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5 I pointed out that the storage market in the US alone is ~$30 billion / year and there is no dominant provider — the largest player has < 10% market share.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

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This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. Look at Josh Kopelman over at First Round Capital. The contra is also true.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). Today, innovation is happening at an increasingly faster rate and , that being true, Thomas thought it was more efficient to match capital to ideas than execute the ideas himself. The hard part is always the execution.

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