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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. 2007 was the watershed year.

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My Chat with Dan Primack of PEHub

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In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. Specifically we talked about Slide having gotten a $550 million valuation before being sold to Google for $182 million.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches. Slides, please.”

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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. We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence.