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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

We got to know stellar entrepreneurs in the space and backed them early – 50% of our portfolio is comprised of companies who are defining this computing paradigm, and FPV continues to be a go-to fund for entrepreneurs looking for sector expertise. When we launched, few had heard of blockchain, and bitcoin was a dirty word.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

We got to know stellar entrepreneurs in the space and backed them early – 50% of our portfolio is comprised of companies who are defining this computing paradigm, and FPV continues to be a go-to fund for entrepreneurs looking for sector expertise. When we launched, few had heard of blockchain, and bitcoin was a dirty word.

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Be a Pioneer not an Opportunist

thebarefootvc

I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. I am not interested in the opportunists, either as co-investors or as portfolio CEOs. The most exciting part of this future is the far-reaching global innovation and increased participation by women that I haven’t seen in previous cycles.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Updated July 10, 2012, 7:57 p.m. About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4%

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Update March 2012: See also my expanded critique of Colin Wheildon’s legibility research. 5; in Lund, 1999 ). Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). What is important to bear in mind is that in almost all legibility studies, reader preference or perceived legibility tends to be inconsistent with user performance ( Lund, 1999 ).

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. Alexia Tsotsis: Let’s see, what about other companies that aren’t in your portfolio? Marc Andreessen: Yeah, exactly! Exactly right!