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The Coming Brick Wall in Venture Capital & Why This is Good for US Innovation

Both Sides of the Table

This is the final part of a 3-part series on the major changes in the structure of the software & the venture capital industries. The opportunities for tech startups today are more immense than they’ve ever been with billions of people now connected to the Internet nearly all the time.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

If you’re thinking of hiring a Partner, I suggest see How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm. HOF Capital provides hands-on support through our in-house team, plus a network of outside mentors who work with portfolio companies on an as-needed basis. For more, see the Startup Studio Playbook.

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10 Keys To Surviving Startup Cash Flow Requirements

Startup Professionals Musings

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. According to a well-researched Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. You go onto the Internet and can control what people hear on terrestrial radio. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital VC Industry.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

He said that from what he read, the path to building and funding a company seemed to be: 1) come up with an idea, 2) form a team, 3) start testing minimal viable products, 4) raise seed funding, 5) then obtain venture capital. Today there are around 720+ venture studios across the world – half are in Europe.

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

(Researchers believe this tipping point is result of the complex interactions between the neural network architecture and the massive amounts of training data it has been exposed to – essentially everything that was on the Internet as of September 2021.) Other economists are just realizing the ripple effect that this technology will have.

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17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading

Up and Running

David Cohen is the founder and Managing Partner of Techstars, the #1 ranked internet startup accelerator in the world. Venture capital is a male-dominated business and it’s rare to get the perspectives of female VC. Interested in venture capital investment? If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It.