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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. There are of course many Seed VCs who take board seats, don’t over-commit to too many deals and try to help with “company building” activities to help at a company’s vulnerable foundations. Hot, Flat & Crowded.”

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. But not many others.

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Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos

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If your culture rewards those who seek the truth, your team will be prone to objectively identifying tactical course corrections. But we do it anyway, because we believe that the short-term metrics probably aren’t indicative of the long term.”. Obsess About Customers, Not Colleagues Or Competitors. “We

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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%. And of course the funding problem coincided with the stock market correction that took away most exit options for years to come. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry.