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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

First in Wuhan, China, and then the fact that it can spread so quickly in Italy and continental Europe really surprises me and I think a lot of others as well in the scientific community. Alpha Lee : I was initially hoping that the pandemic would be a slightly worse version of the common cold or flu. Eric Ries : Wow. Eric Ries : Yeah.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. And what AngelList is doing differs from the crowdfunding market, with the criteria for startup participation and the requirement to be an accredited investor. European M-Payments Startup SumUp Partners With Revel Systems, An iPad POS Provider, For Its Push Into Europe.

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Two Important Reports from the NVCA: VC Fundraising Declines 53% in Q3 2011 and U.S. Medical Innovation is in Crisis

Pascal's View

The report “revealed that US venture capitalists are reducing their investment in biotechnology and medical device companies and shifting focus overseas to Europe and Asia, primarily due to regulatory obstacles at the Food and Drug Administration.” Shift focus away from the United States towards Europe and Asia.

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. This is likely to be controversial for adherents to Lean Startup thinking because we traditionally think of pivoting to improve the product-market fit in the external marketplace.

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What the AngelList Debate Means for the Future of Startup Investing

www.readwriteweb.com

Based on my experience as the co-founder of StartupDigest , I believe that the startup investing industry is quickly being organized more like the public investing market, and what we are seeing now is a battle of two major investment theses: the index approach and the concentrated investment approach. s 500, and the Nasdaq composite Index.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

So it is a combination of markets and people. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. The contextual ad market was attractive. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. 16:35-19:35).

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A tale of two IPOs

BeyondVC

.” The company has a blue chip list of customers like Cingular Wireless and Sprint PCS in the United States; Globe Telecom, KDDI Corp, NTT DoCoMo, Optus and Singtel in Asia Pacific; and mmO2 and Orange in Europe. What bothers my partner, Ned Carlson, even more is that some of the investors are even selling in the $100mm raise.

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