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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

Median valuations for early-stage valuations tripled from around $20m pre-money valuations to $60m with plenty of deals being prices above $100m. But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. What is a VC To Do? So it’s about 20%.

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Revisiting the Craft Beer Metaphor for the VC Industry

View from Seed

At the time, this metaphor really rang true and resonated with both founders and LPs. Similarly, I’d argue that the early-stage venture “product” has elevated across the board. The same can be said of the venture industry, but time shifted forward thanks for the covid-induced bubble in 2020 and 2021.

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The Essential Nature of In-Person Work For Early-Stage Startups

Hunter Walker

2020 has turned out to be a really interesting test of what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. What I meant to say is 2020 has provided us a bunch of forced learnings around collaboration given that much of the tech world shifted from “mostly together in offices” to “mostly apart, at home, supported by software.”

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Pitching in the Pandemic

View from Seed

The simple truth is that all venture capitalists have told their portfolio Founder/CEOs that if they don’t absolutely need to raise capital now that they shouldn’t be out there attempting to do so. If founders must raise now, or soon, then there are three approaches to addressing the current situation. Wait until fall. Wait until 2021.

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Why Startup Communities are Essential

Duct Tape Marketing

Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars. What part does distributed work play in creating startup communities? Why it’s so hard to predict where we are going in 2020. Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987.

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In Q4 2022, founders face tough choices

VC Cafe

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. The later the stage, the bigger the impact. What is a founder to do? billion in 538 deals.

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My Thoughts on the Current Market: on 20-Minute VC

Both Sides of the Table

Biggest Advice I Give to Portfolio Founders? Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020.

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