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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

This is going to be BIG.

You know, because sometimes startups just simply don't make it [shrug] but you gotta watch out for those financial hucksters who are looking to take your money and run off to kick it in Fiji. You can get a list of the biggest pension funds and endowments and it wouldn't take that much legwork to figure out who manages their venture programs.

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The Bastardisation of the Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Babbling VC

After exiting (and deciding to not spend the rest of their lives on the beach in Fiji) they were looking for something to do. Typically they are at some kind of unknown incubator or accelerator. Usually EIR''s were guys who had already exited at least one if not more startups and were most likely venture-backed.

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