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6 Keys To Recognizing Business Bubbles Ready To Burst

Startup Professionals Musings

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In finance, “this time is different” is the beginning of a new bubble. Government actions sometimes meddle with normal supply and demand equilibriums, or money allocations. Overconfidence. Policy-driven distortions.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

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Create a New Business Bubble, Don’t Chase Old Ones

Startup Professionals Musings

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In finance, “this time is different” is the beginning of a new bubble. Government actions sometimes meddle with normal supply and demand equilibriums, or money allocations. Overconfidence. Policy-driven distortions.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. Everyone wanted to work in finance. Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government.

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Avoid Startup Opportunity Bubbles Ready To Burst

Startup Professionals Musings

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In finance, “this time is different” is the beginning of a new bubble. Government actions sometimes meddle with normal supply and demand equilibriums, or money allocations. Overconfidence. Policy-driven distortions.

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Is Your VC Founder Friendly?

Steve Blank

They understand that now’s not the time to hire a senior VP of Sales to start to scale the sales force or to look for a finance department to create income statements that say zero each month. Filed under: Durant versus Sloan: Startups Verus Companies , Venture Capital.

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How The SEC Is Violating My Wife’s First Amendment Rights

Feld Thoughts

The common description of pay to play is “ the practice of making campaign contributions and related payments to elected officials in order to influence the awarding of lucrative contracts for the management of public pension plan assets and similar government investment accounts. &# Yup – sounds like bribery to me.

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