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A Technical Cofounder Tells You How To Find Your Technical Cofounder, Where The Stuff We Return to Amazon Goes, a Benchmark VC on Rethinking Your AI Startup, and More….

Hunter Walker

Holiday weekend here in the US means links for you to read Playing Different (Stupider) Games The Other End Of The Valuation Stick [Kyle Harrison, Contrary Capital] – Kyle puts out a new essay (almost) every Saturday and I really enjoy his consistent and clear eyed POV on venture capital.

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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. Scalable startups require risk capital to fund their search for a business model, and they attract investment from equally crazy financial investors – venture capitalists.

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We’re all coders

Start Up Blog

As a startup entrepreneur I often get asked if I’m coder. This code is very lucrative when you understand its depth as it pertains to equities, venture capital, property and other income streams. Yes, we’re all coders. I used to say no. I sometimes use other codes, including the investing code.

Coder 99
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Now Any Accredited Investor Can Invest in Texas Startups with Capital Factory and AngelList

Austin Startup

Capital Factory has an early investor in many of the most successful startups in Texas over the past decade including Aceable , AlertMedia , BigCommerce , Coder , data.world , ICON , Spredfast , Storable , WP Engine and ZenBusiness.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. But you’d have to be a pretty heads-down coder to not have noticed the past 2+ weeks in the DJIA. Venture capital is an industry best served up from 7-year aged casks.

Stock 305
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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. We handed our offices over to our friends at General Assembly , who now use the space to train LA’s next generation of coders. She joined Mesa Global where she is doing both venture capital and investment banking.

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A Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

There are no tours of companies or venture capital firms. Hang out at the Red Rock Café at night to watch the coders at work trying to stay caffeinated. Sand Hill Road – Adventure Capital. Startups and innovation have exploded here because of the rise of venture capital. Go to a Techcrunch event.