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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

Both Sides of the Table

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Use Case I: Payments and Finance . 1) Generalizable Payments . 6) Identity Issuance .

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE. Thank you for the kind introduction.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. The Funding Problem. The Exit Problem. Today’s Normalization.

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Kernel column: Falling costs enable regional startup hubs

The Equity Kicker

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. Sometimes the companies simply struggle and grow as best they can with inadequate financing.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google.