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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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[Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. ” The new narrative is “will my seed funds be able to fund the prorata of their winners? .” 2007 was the watershed year. The iPhone was released.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

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An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. For what ever reason we’re wired to have amnesia during the run up and prescient memories of how we ‘knew it all along’ as soon as the slide begins. And importantly we’ve had revenue. ROI studies were published.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape. A gentleman had stopped by our booth multiple times and then wrote me immediately after the conference and said that I “HAD to come and meet with his partners the very next week.” Slides, please.”