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Want to Raise Venture Capital More Easily? Clean Up Your Own Shite First

Both Sides of the Table

If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. But I’m not prepared to damage my reputation for this deal.&#. Reputation.

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After Ringing the IPO Bell

Seeing Both Sides

Last week''s successful IPO of e-commerce giant Wayfair (market cap $3B) and this week''s impending IPO of Hubspot (if it prices in the range, market cap $600m) has many in the Boston tech community celebrating. Your venture capital investors and many early employees head for the door and you are left holding the bag.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

Venture capitalists like us are investing in three overlapping models of international startups: Companies founded overseas. They achieve product/market fit while based abroad, and then sometimes gradually move key business functions to the US and Western European tech hubs. Companies founded by immigrants.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

Venture capitalists like us are investing in three overlapping models of international startups: Companies founded overseas. They achieve product/market fit while based abroad, and then sometimes gradually move key business functions to the US and Western European tech hubs. Companies founded by immigrants.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

And while many of the people bringing you the great applications and infrastructure you now rely on are benevolent, there is of course an inbuilt incentive for these companies to use their scale advantages to continue to dominate the markets they’re in, making it harder for upstarts to compete. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.