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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

Innovation is Becoming More Broadly Distributed. The biggest rise, unsurprisingly, was China, which enjoyed a huge surge in venture capital dollars over the past decade and enjoyed its fair share of blockbuster exits. The SF-Bay Area continues to dominate the rankings, with 56% of investors based in that area.

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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

Both Sides of the Table

It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. While this it total FDI as opposed to just venture, it should give you an indication of the international trend. But it’s not just China and Singapore.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital.

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What Do Diversity Hiring and Work From Home Jobs Have in Common?

Transformify

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. Over the last decade, a new trend emerged as tech talent was scarce where it was needed the most.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. After Meebo launched, his friends helped him get the word out and soon they were getting coverage as far a China and India. Background: Seth grew Meebo from 0 to 170 million uniques in five years.

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Why Uber Should Go Public

Both Sides of the Table

And there was a great discussion about generational change at Venture Capital firms handled so well by Benchmark & Sequoia and how Fred is thinking about it. He takes on the question of why China, with its vast population and resources and the Ottoman Empire, which clearly had a dominant position over the West, crumbled.

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Silicon Valley Will Suffer a Shameful Legacy for Introducing Inequality to the Great Equalizer

Austin Startup

Fortunately, Europe and Asia as well as Africa are making great breakthroughs in technology such as mobile payments, blockchain and distributed ledgers and artificial intelligence as well as robotics. China has built up beautiful and diverse tech hubs that will make anybody forget about Silicon Valley existence altogether.