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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

Kelly Slone, director of the Medical Industry Group of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA ) posted an important article on October 7 on the NVCAccess blog, clearly calling out that the unintended consequences of FDA regulations have precipitated a full-blown crisis in medical innovation in the U.S.

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Europe’s growing share of $1bn startups

The Equity Kicker

Aileen Lee of early stage fund Cowboy ventures wrote a post for Techcrunch yesterday looking at the characteristics of 39 startups founded since 2003 that are worth over $1bn. Fred’s Hackpad lists $1bn+ value companies founded after 2003 and founded before 2003. Now the list is not complete (e.g.

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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. needed to launch the venture initiative, and then must work to retain that support over time as conflicts arise (which they will). As Steve would say, this is a big idea.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. 16:35-19:35).

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What the AngelList Debate Means for the Future of Startup Investing

www.readwriteweb.com

The quantitative combination of an initial approach that is high-volume, but later selectively filtered results in a higher percentage outcome of winners, and larger dollar-weighted bets on companies that are successful. startupcto

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Splunk Founder Now Launches Entrepreneurs, Not Startups

ReadWriteStart

Michael Baum : You remember what happened in 2003 in Silicon Valley, right? We work with leading colleges, universities and research institutes throughout North America and Europe to advance student entrepreneurship. The Founder.org sister venture capital fund invested in seven of them. Were you insane?

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

Many entrepreneurs claim that there’s just not enough money, and that investors in Europe fear failure. This was reported as being untrue by British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) about a year ago. This is a representation of 2003 – 2013. Europe could do with an attitude more like that.

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