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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. “Reality is, at the seed stage, most rocketships look more like the cardboard variety you’d make as a kid than something NASA developed.

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The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue to The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

Almost two years ago, in a private/closed meeting with K9 Ventures’ LPs only, I claimed that: What was being referred to in the press as the “Series A Crunch” was not because fewer Series A deals were being done, but because there were too many Seed deals being done. Seed stage was super tough. Implications for Founders.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries. “software”); 43 invest in 2 types of technology (e.g., software” and “deeptech”), and so on. 2) Business model-defined funds. These firms also sometimes target startups that serve a specific kind of customer (e.g.

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Opportunity is everywhere: we’re now investing worldwide

Version One Ventures

From the start, we have limited ourselves primarily to startups within North America, with a handful of exceptions: Nexus Mutual and Drover (UK), Guesser.com (Spain), and Headout (India). We still look for pre-seed & seed stage opportunities, as we believe this is the stage where we can add the most value.

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Billion or Bust?

thebarefootvc

I think that later stage valuations are frothy (for reasons I explain below) while earlier stage valuations are starting to stabilize from previous highs (with the exception of the superstar serial entrepreneur) - turns out scaling in a sea of competition (both startup and entrenched) is not so easy. Or so it seems.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here? Will the Bay Area’s cost structure compress the precious runway these newco’s have?

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How Can Israeli Startups Raise Funding in Silicon Valley?

VC Cafe

Jeff Clavier, Seed stage investor in 90+ consumer internet startups, said: We all have a different approach to non Silicon Valley opportunities. I’m from India and lucky to be part of the Winter Silicon Valley 2010 session. And what do the investors think? link] is another great one to apply.