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The Changing Venture Landscape

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We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. Seed has become an option factory for many. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way. We also have a world that is, as Thomas Friedman so elegantly put it?—?“ Hot, Flat & Crowded.”

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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” The new narrative is “will my seed funds be able to fund the prorata of their winners?” ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Seed funds now represent 67% of all funds being created now, which is up 100% from 6 years ago. .”

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. And of course the funding problem coincided with the stock market correction that took away most exit options for years to come.