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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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In their startup post-mortem, Nouncer discussed their decision to be in NY as one that hurt their company stating : In my case, New York didn’t lack money, community, able workers, or smart people with good advice. I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve met in New York meetups and events that fit this description.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

I'm from New York, upstate New York. But you go to New York City and people just kind of. And when I got to RISD, there was this new movement happening. And of course, this is 2000. This one really started getting legs in the late '90s, early 2000s. 500,000 to New Orleans.

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%. One are investors in truly new asset classes, e.g., frontier markets like the Pakistani stock market, which really do provide new opportunities for investors to put capital to work. In aggregate, angels are significant investors.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. before finishing the new product (ACS 4.x); I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

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Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. Bates: You know Josh—.