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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

The market was down considerably with public valuations down 53ā€“79% across the four sectors we were reviewing (it is since down even further). ==> Aside, we also have a NEW LA-based partner Iā€™m thrilled to announce: Nick Kim. First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds.

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Startup Professionals Musings

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. This is the dreaded ā€œdue diligenceā€ process. Sustainable competitive advantage.

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Understanding the Dreaded Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. This is the dreaded ā€œdue diligenceā€ process. Sustainable competitive advantage.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why Youā€™ll Lose if You Donā€™t

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. So they’ll have to look for other competitive advantages for distribution. My argument is pretty simple.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source.

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What Startup Owners Need to Know About Employee Medical Benefits

Tech Zulu Event

These two developments represent the potential for major disruption in employer-sponsored medical benefit programs over the next decade or so, according to several studies. In fact, health care exchanges are expected to represent an increasingly competitive alternative to employer-sponsored health insurance plans in the future.

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Makers Making The Sci-Fi Tricorder A Reality With VOXearch

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A number of teams have recently been looking to turn that vision into reality, as a result of the Qualcomm Tricorder Prize , a $10M competition being run by the X Prize Foundation to create a real life Tricorder. That''s essentially how the Tricoder competition was formed--it''s time for this to happen. Mann implantable device area.

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