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Academic Research on Accelerators

Feld Thoughts

The first accelerator, YC, was founded in 2005. Now that we are 13 years into the accelerator journey, an accelerator is a well-established construct that is part of the global startup ecosystem. I was asked if any existed the other day by an LP, so following is a list of papers I am familiar with.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

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. Thomson Reuters data shows that around $10 billion of LP money went into VCs per year pre bubble. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. This is a major issue and the role of data analytics will continue to expand as per a January article from Global Banking and Finance Review which cited that the world’s top investment banks were fined a total $43 billion over the last seven years for failures in customer reporting.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

And if you look at what percentage of the global population lives within commuting distance of one of our offices, it's a tiny fraction of the world, far less than 1%. And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. People like [inaudible 00:04:49] from WordPress who'd had a remote company for a long time.

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