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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). The fundraising environment is certainly tougher for later rounds.

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

October 2007 (This essay is derived from a keynote at FOWA in October 2007.) Larry and Sergey only started Google after making the rounds of the search engines trying to sell their idea and finding no takers. Theres something interesting happening right now. Its a pattern we see over and over in technology.

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