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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” ” The new narrative is “will my seed funds be able to fund the prorata of their winners?” Where are we today?

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. .” ” The approach was clever and novel.

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Interview with Constance Curtis, The List

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We've taken matchmaking onto a mobile application, as a modern matchmaking company. As I was driving home from that meeting, I decided to work from there, and ended up writing a business plan and fundraising from family and friends. Constance Curtis: We just opened up our $2M seed funding round, which just opened last week.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. You can write an angry email to get your emotions out but you shouldn’t necessarily send it (or wait 1 hour and then make a decision). Before GUBA, Thomas worked at Sony on the VAIO computer.

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