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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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In addition to FOMO it is partly driven by massive increase in valuations for earlier-stage companies who raised money at bit seed prices but who still have product risk. million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment).

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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

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But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. So if funding from VCs slowed, valuations dropped and burn rates were slashed, WTF happened to winter again? Ok, Suster. So WTF happened? Why no winter?