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2021: The Version One year in review

Version One Ventures

Society’s newfound reliance on virtual interactions reduced the importance of location: geography is no longer a limiting factor for companies to access the best talent and raise capital from the best possible investors (and consequently, we officially announced that we are now investing globally ).

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Deflationary Economics now favors us. Stuff you may not know about LA?

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Confronting A Radically New B2B Marketplace: The Storytelling Secret That Will Rock Your Result

YoungUpstarts

Companies as disparate as FireEye, Zuora, Virgin America and Salesforce.com have leveraged these breakthrough marketing changes to win over customers and become industry leaders. Three years later their IPO valued the company at more than $2 billion.

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Book: Where The Jobs Are

Feld Thoughts

Launch an Education Reform Dialogue Among America’s Educators. Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market. Jump-Start America’s Trade Agenda. When I know, work with, and respect more than 50% of the board of a new non-profit, I pay attention. .” Award “Graduation” Green Cards. . Negotiate a U.S.-China

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. business model that drives job growth in emerging growth companies is IPOs. More on this below.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

One of the most highly anticipated startup IPOs of recent years, we now get a peek inside Airbnb’s business. Airbnb’s bookings have rebounded to roughly 70-80% of what they were in 2019 pre-COVID whereas global hotel companies like Marriott and Hilton are operating at roughly 35-40% of where they were in fall 2019.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #2: What’s in a name?

Austin Startup

the voice of customers would indeed sound “bizarre” to all of the corporate people that had been locked away in their towers instead of walking their store aisles like Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, used to do to “keep it real” and then taught his children in his book Made In America. Fourth, it had global appeal?—?bazaar

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