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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

There are some obvious structural reasons why a shakeout in the venture capital industry takes a long time. This was also the period when VC started expanding seriously in emerging markets like India and China, and many LPs put new capital into these OUS funds. 2) Rebirth of Some Firms - Mobius Venture Capital is now defunct.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) Was it using government money as a private SBIC firm?

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Seed Investments in Insurrection

This is going to be BIG.

They had raised nearly $2 million of venture capital money to hire an army of workers whose job it was to mindlessly stare at images all day and no one asked about working conditions or if the existence of this company and others like it had costly societal consequences. No other VC asked questions like this.”