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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

VC Cafe

In smaller funds, ticket sizes tend to be lower, so pre-seed is the only stage where micro funds are able to secure their minimum equity targets. Carta reports that 20% of the rounds in 2023 were down rounds, but I believe the actual number is much higher. who’s talking to customers?)

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations.