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The Changing Venture Landscape

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.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. dot-com bonanza. Ten years on much has changed. each with partners as the lead.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

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Montgomery believes there will be 50 IPOs in 2010 as there is pent-up supply and a higher risk tolerance amongst institutional public investors harmonizing at 40 deals / year for the 3 years starting in 2011. Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital hopes IPO’s will pick up in this CNBC Video but stopped short of saying it would for sure.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). if you don't have experience with venture debt you might want to listen to this bit in the video - we talked a lot about how it works]. On Entrepreneurship: What makes a great entrepreneur?

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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

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In a way, startups have become kind of like the video game industry. And so it occurs to me that many startups in the consumer world are now truly hits driven like video games or movies. So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. Not solving a real problem.

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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

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In 2011 I started using Instagram. I started doing SnapStorms, which are short burst of video around a certain startup or financing topic. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. It was a break from information overload of Facebook.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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This 1-minute video shows exactly what Invoca does. The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. And while this data is from mid-2011 I can assure you that data is not going down. They have grown at a 200% CAGR over the past 4 years. THE FULL STORY. There are 2.9 billion by 2014.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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But a certain amount gets lost in the headlines – especially when not everybody actually heard the video and knows the nuance of the message. But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category. Fair enough. That may be.