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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. Money flowing into our industry has also massively downsized. There are 20x more consumers online.

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Design for Startups: The Aesthetics of Web Apps in 6 Questions

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The Myspace traffic numbers slipped slightly before they cleaned it up, but after the June 2008 redesign it was freefall. To design like a teenager in 1997 using MS publisher is incredibly painful. Ive read interviews with people at Zappos before talking about how they purposely keep the site looking like crap. (To

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