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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” [Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

taketheinterview.com , New York, NY) is a cloud-based solution that streamlines the recruiting process. HBSAANY members embody try capitalists, particular accredited investors, and other institutional investors. Take the Interview ( www. domestic market.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

taketheinterview.com , New York, NY) is a cloud-based solution that streamlines the recruiting process. HBSAANY members embody try capitalists, particular accredited investors, and other institutional investors. Take the Interview ( www. domestic market.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service.

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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. But not many others.

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Gazzang Banks $3.5M Series A

Austin Startup

the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5 million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc.,

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