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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). The problem was that he was still working out the lock-up period in his big company. Not my problem.

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Trimming The Hedges, Planning For A Rainy Day

Haystack

At the end of 2016, folks in the startup tech ecosystem looked toward 2017’s impending “uncertainty.” Yet, looking back, not much changed — there’s more money than every in the early-stage ecosystem, bigger financing rounds, large private pre-IPO growth rounds, and much more.