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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

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In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980’s. American Home Video: Video Stores. None of these companies fit Mr. Neumann’s definition of the era’s venture deals and each generated returns we would welcome today.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. was starting.

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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

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Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. NOTE: In the video I talked about how VC’s and entrepreneurs decide the total number of shares at the first major funding round and why it’s often a high number.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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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. THAT is disruption.

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Are Things Moving Faster Than In 1999?

Feld Thoughts

After I sold my first company, I started a company called Intensity Ventures to make all my personal investments from. When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. In 1999 things were moving so theoretically quickly that everything was a total blur.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

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On the former I mentioned a video that I shot for This Week in VC talking about how Farb Nivi solved this problem: “Farb talks about how he got Rob Lord on board at Grockit. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis Term Sheets. He first worked hard to get him to be an advisor to the company.

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

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Greycroft is Alan’s venture capital firm that recently raised its second fund ($130 million) with offices in both New York and LA. The deck is below and I’m attaching a link to video that has a very similar presentation (he spent more time in our session on “customer development” than apparently he does in this video).

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