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Changes in the Venture Capital Funding Environment

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Rise of Seed. Prior to then the concept of “seed funds” barely existed and as I’ve argued before the seed fund phenomenon was largely driven by: Open source + horizontal computing + Amazon AWS. Explosion in Seed Funds. Now seed funding is conventional wisdom.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (5/11) – Inspiration

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Often entrepreneurs show me their management team slides with the names of the people who are going to join him once they’re funded. All traits of an entrepreneur must be exercised in concert. In fact, tenacity with no inspiration is often annoying yet with a little ‘inspiration’ and charm it can be motivating.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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It eventually closed at 11,204 in April ’10 before sliding back around 10,000 as I sit here and type. Sounds obvious now, but as I wrote the original piece the DJIA had already come roaring back from 6,600 to 9,865 so it was certainly against conventional wisdom.

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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

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in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. Talk a bit about your funding, and how you got to it? The only thing we knew, is you sent around this set of slides which was supposed to convey what could bette rbe conveyed in conversation. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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Understanding a VC’s Seed Funding Policy is Critical

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There has been much discussion about VCs doing seed funding in the past year. I’ve written about it myself (Is VC Seed Funding Dead?) and (Is There Really a Signaling Problem with VC Seed Funding?). Knowing What the Seed Funding Policy of your VC is. Short summary of my posts: 1.

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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? .”