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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. While their domain was good, the scale they would have required to get the exposure for their non-existent brand would have broken the bank many times over.

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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

And how much are variable expenses (salaries, consultants, commission, travel, AWS/Azure charges, supplies, etc.?). This time around, the health of the venture business may depend on what hedge funds, investment banks, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, and large secondary market groups do.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Venture capital. The Bing Fund will invest $50,000-$100,000 in early-stage startups, through standard convertible notes (loans that convert to equity at Microsoft’s option). From $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage.

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Viola Private Equity Pumps $7 Million into Zend

VC Cafe

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure) for both training machine learning models and deploying inferences. The opportunity is so large that there are hundreds of AI accelerator startups designing their own chips, funded by 10’s of billions of venture capital and private equity. We’re Just Getting Started.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Windows Azure. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital. Founder Equity Issues. About VC Cafe.