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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Enter P2P lending. Online peer-to-peer lending. 14.7mm in Series D.

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Start Business Planning Now For The Holiday Season

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet you can never forget the seasonal business cash flow and activity demands that are approaching, so to be prepared – you need to start the planning now. Even though these last few years have not been great financially for entrepreneurs, it always helps to look at the cup as half full, rather than half empty.

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10 Reasons Why Capital Shouldn't Make Or Break Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The caveat is that these young entrepreneurs have to drop out of college to do it. Thiel is providing his mentees with capital to make their startups a reality. When you don't accept capital from someone else, you aren't beholden to anyone else's input. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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Venture Capital is a tricky industry. When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. Suffice it to say it will drive much demand including from a very close family member of mine who always travels with an EpiPen.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

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I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. They are also driving down the margins they make and are offering products that are initially lower functionality than their competitors. Venture capital will be easy and then hard.

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