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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.).

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

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Generative AI: Incumbents vs. Upstarts

VC Cafe

More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products. The company is shutting down its consumer product in early June.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. Everything I’ve been talking about smart companies have already figured out.

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There’s more to generative AI than picks and shovels

VC Cafe

Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

Some of our latest investments in NYC include founders building companies in serverless, open source data streaming, decentralized biometric security, splunk for customer data, and developer productivity for dynamic code testing. There will be more deep enterprise tech startups founded, funded, launched, and scaled out of NYC in 2018.

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