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Seed Stage Firms are Dead, Long Live Micro VCs

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Micro VCs will continue to come in many flavors with slightly different strategies, but there are a few distinctive defining characteristics: On a per partner basis, each investor is investing less than $25M in any given fund. The capital deployment velocity is notably higher than a traditional 1-2 investment per partner per year.

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Beer Kegs and the Future of Venture Capital: What It Means for Entrepreneurs

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Founders benefit of having more funding options is certainly preferable, but there is a substantial onus on entrepreneurs to navigate an increasingly crowded and clouded landscape. Big Data, mobile, cloud-only are all dedicated sub-sector funds examples I know of in the IT space. What’s pouring = individual partners matter.