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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital.

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Update on America’s Slipping Global Competitiveness– Implications for Intellectual Property Development of Senate Bill 515

Pascal's View

My remarks explained the relationship between the long-term decline in America’s global competitiveness, the impact of the capital markets crisis on new investment in research and development, and specifically addressed Senate Bill 515 , the pending U.S. legislation that will transform the U.S.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

When you outsource…at least in the early days…it matters little wheter you pick a local bank or a global one. One consideration that comes up often when outsourcing is whether to go with a local or offshore vendor. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on.

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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

Move R&D offshore Operations Follow your customer growth, don’t grow data center and support capacity ahead That said, I would like to close this post will a couple of more cheerful comments. Venture Capital. (3). Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Explore Venture Capital.

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Why So Many Small Emerging Managers Don’t Use Placement Agents

David Teten

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. Private equity/venture capital managers have a much longer duration than most any other fund type. For example, Backstage Capital recently used Republic to raise $4,856,800 from 7,021 investors in one day. .

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Drinking from a Firehose

thebarefootvc

Interestingly, Satis, a blockchain advisory firm, published a report this past week (link below) that predicts offshore markets for cryptocurrency will be main drivers of crypto market growth, citing a loss of confidence in government monetary policy around the world.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Global and Local. I caught a glimpse of this energy during my Venture Partner tenure with the folks at GGV Capital , who’ve been successfully investing exclusively across China and the U.S. and seen the rise of absolute juggernauts with deeply global ambitions such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi.