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Fellow VCs: Here’s Where to Invest $1B+

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The dotted red line above shows the average amount of capital raised by HBS founders between 2008 and 2010: $416M per year. Even if we remove 2011 as a potential outlier, that billion-dollar estimate is still a very resonable prediction.

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VC Paradox: The Best of Times & Worst of Times (Part I)

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This conclusion seems counter-intuitive given the anecdotal stories about the challenges that many venture capital firms have experienced in fundraising since the 2008 collapse as the industry has contracted into two distinct winning strategies of either a macrobrew or microbrew 1.

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It's Always Sunny on the Web

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He says “’do’ is where the web is headed in 2008,” citing social networks and other social services (e.g. While the web started with people passively receiving content from AOL, it soon transitioned to people hunting for information with Google. editing spreadsheets on Google docs, watching bank account with credit card balances, twittering).

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It's Always Sunny on the Web

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He says “’do’ is where the web is headed in 2008,” citing social networks and other social services (e.g. While the web started with people passively receiving content from AOL, it soon transitioned to people hunting for information with Google. editing spreadsheets on Google docs, watching bank account with credit card balances, twittering).

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