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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). ” 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 and the bigger funds can’t get in directly. Where are we today?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem.

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When VCs Play Defense

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The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Before skimmers race to the comments or Twitter to complain – I’m not saying intro’s aren’t valuable – of course they are. They are known.

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