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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

Uber , Zenefits , Tanium , Lending Club CEOs of companies with billion dollar market caps have been in the news – and not in a good way. This era was a “buyer’s market” – there were more good companies looking to get funded than there were VCs. And while new markets were created (i.e. Board Control.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. He holds a Master of Science in Finance from the London Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University.

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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)

Steve Blank

If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. Public market comparables. Venture capital flows. A basic driver for a private technology market bubble is the over-supply of venture capital into the sector.

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Lean Startup Conference Speaker Andy Rachleff on his 35 years in Silicon Valley, Wealthfront and telling stories

Startup Lessons Learned

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. Probably the biggest change that I've noticed in the Valley is the transition from startups focusing on hardware, to startups built on software, and what that implies about the venture model as well. The question was, did anyone want it?

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Provigent, which was founded in 2000, raised $55 million from international and Israeli venture capital firms. Broadcom, which has a market cap of $21.7 Barclays Capital is opening a financial technology research and development center in Israel and plans to hire up to 200 people. Unemployment fell to 6.1%

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