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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned. Seed funds back to basics in 2019: We highlighted the barbelling of VC in the year-end 2017 update and see this continuing in 2019. Consider this a back to basics approach the way VC used to be in the Arthur Rock days.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011.