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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Thomson Reuters data shows that around $10 billion of LP money went into VCs per year pre bubble.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor VC

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. I'm doing a new academic experiment now - an incubator at Menlo College where we are bringing the start-ups to campus and giving the students an opportunity to see how they develop and work as interns.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

– SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks. I’m also incubating a startup, Action Tank , to help other NGOs accomplish their goals using their supporters’ unique expertise.