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The End of Syndication

View from Seed

For early stage VC ‘s, Syndication is the process of sharing investments with other potential co-investors. At this point, the investor and the entrepreneur work together to develop their perfect list of potential partners, and then do targeted outreach to try to bring this investor into the round.

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On Human Capital & Venture Capital

thebarefootvc

As an entrepreneur at heart, I often innately grasp the potential of entrepreneurs and ideas that I meet with. These days, I am seeing a large number of first time entrepreneurs with great ideas, which is fantastic to see. There is inherent risk taking when you haven’t done it before, which often leads to true innovation.

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How we can fix online video advertising’s weakest links

The Next Web

No matter how you look at it – bandwidth consumption, number of viewers per hour, virality – online video has taken over the Web. Entrepreneur Social Media Analysis and Opinion' Yuval Brener is CEO of Carambo.la , an interactive video enrichment platform. billion online videos before the day ends !

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Netflix / Qwikster Split Was Brilliant (and Necessary)? 2 Long Term.

Agile VC

If you’re a Netflix subsriber with a mediocre bandwidth connection (DSL, esp in rural areas), DVD format will remain a must have for awhile. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

Both Sides of the Table

I know many super experienced entrepreneurs who don’t understand the basics of how fund size and age can affect them so I thought it was worth establishing a baseline. In a world of The Funded, VentureHacks and entrepreneur blogs this kind of informations spreads like wildfire. Bandwidth and hosting charges were expensive.

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Not Building a Unicorn

Austin Startup

TL;DR: In a market that has historically idolized huge, splashy financings and exits, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are realizing that everyone else’s definition of success — particularly among certain large VCs — isn’t necessarily aligned with their own. Most individual VCs can only support about 7–10 companies at a time.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Budget the time leading up to the expo appropriately to guarantee enough bandwidth to send out email campaigns, put a link on your company website and even post on your organization’s social networking channels to make sure that all your customers, past, present and LV Outlet future know exactly where you are going to be.