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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Leverages persistent cookie to follow a user and display recurring display advertising that matches a previous transaction intent or behavior. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

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Why I Worry About Venture-Backed Mental Health & Addiction Startups

Hunter Walker

Traditional venture capital models lean into what’s called ‘power laws.’ Basically the idea that you are backing risky new ventures, many of which will stumble along the way, but one or two of the companies you back will be such outsized successes that the investment gains from those will more than offset the others.

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

K9 Ventures

In that presentation, I said that Seed is not the first round of financing any more and that K9’s investments were mostly “pre-seed”. The Venture Capital industry as a whole does a terrible job of giving things the right name and so we end up keeping the same name, but changing the meaning out from under it. The Epilogue.

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

This means that by far the most effective way to reach a VC is to be introduced by someone who knows both of you and thinks it would be a good match. While VCs are the toughest nut to crack, there are many other (often better) sources of seed capital that may be available to you. One of the primary ones is the referral source.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. As we started to focus on what each of us wanted to do, Adam raised his venture capital fund – Plus Capital.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000. Seedups Hi Jeremy.