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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. The Exit Problem.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened?

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. About this same point in time, the journalists that focus specifically on the venture capital industry noted something quite profound.

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Andreessen Horowitz: No bubble but rebalancing from IPO to late stage venture

The Equity Kicker

Firstly this table comparing 1999 and 2014 on key bubble-related metrics. But second there has been a big shift from IPOs to late stage private rounds. That makes sense, but it looks to me as if they have less valuation discipline than we normally see in either the public markets or in smaller venture rounds.

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History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme

Feld Thoughts

The questions were great, but some of what they were hearing about venture capital was scary as s**t. A handful of them had jobs in venture capital firms and we talked about how to be effective as a freshly minted associated. billion going into venture capital. ” Um.

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Bullpen Capital's Duncan Davidson on VC Funding and "The Era of Cheap"

ReadWriteStart

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. There used to be the Four Horsemen of the IPO world, back in the '80s and '90s. The question is why?

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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

An article on the New Enterprise Associates blog by Partner Tom Grossi , however, makes an interesting point: most of the megafunds were raised since 1999, a period in which the entire industry did poorly. Counting IPOs gets us only a short distance to an Answer. We thought that you’d be interested in our conversation.

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