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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. Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. It kicked Google Video’s ass. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital VC Industry. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Dancing Around the Question Union Square Ventures was kind enough to sponsor a meetup the night before my class.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Today we’re online 3.1

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If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

Both Sides of the Table

I interviewed Eric for an hour for - This Week in Venture Capital. 8:17 How did you decide to go with either shrinkwrap or web only product? Timecodes: 00:00 Welcome, our guest is Eric Ries, founder of the Lean Startup Movement. 00:45 Intro to Eric. 01:17 Background, before the Lean Startup. 4:15 Eric’s startup history.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

VENTURE CAPITAL. AMAZON WEB SERVICES. VIDEO GAMES. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 was starting.

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10 Tips for Finding Venture Funding

Up and Running

I have to start with a major negative: if you have to ask if your startup can get venture capital, then it almost certainly can’t. Venture capital is a very rarified atmosphere of high-end startups and emerging businesses with experienced management teams, high potential growth, secret sauce, and so on.