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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. If you’re going to play in the big leagues you need to be writing checks from a $700 million?—?$1 of the fund. Are we in a bubble?”

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. Although the first draft of this post began when Kluge was a proud member of NextSpace; as of this writing we have moved to a bigger office to accommodate our expanding team. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

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Feel Lost On LinkedIn? ExploreB2B Wants To help You Network With People Of Your Profession

Tech Zulu Event

Members can also enhance their expert status by writing informative articles and position themselves as a contact person for other professionals to get information from. The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Users can also endorse another platform professional to recommend them as an expert.

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Huddlewoo Wants To Connect You To Mentors You Admire Through Online Video

Tech Zulu Event

Huddlewoo a live video platform set to launch early 2013 to give people the ability to access extraordinary people for one-on-one conversations and mentoring. We are a platform that facilitates the most important conversations of people’s lives! The calendar, payment and live-video are all facilitated through our platform.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. Although the first draft of this post began when Kluge was a proud member of NextSpace; as of this writing we have moved to a bigger office to accommodate our expanding team. Unwinding at an Amplify party.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And covered we did.