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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. I’m looking for ones that understand that in order to build huge, meaningful companies they’ll need to likely build through these boom years and some lean ones.

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The Enlightenment, the lean startup and Steve Jobs

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In 1999 when I started in venture capital there were no blogs and very few business books that were useful for entrepreneurs. If I was to pick a watershed moment in the emergence of ‘entrepreneurship as a science’ it would be the publication of Steve Blank’s Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2005.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

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TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

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When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. Then from the mid 2000s, value add began moving beyond the partner to the firm as VCs began employing people who’s full time job was helping their portfolio.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. Member since 01/2005. Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean. venture capital.

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