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

K9 Ventures

Another thing I noticed was that I was now referring companies that I had invested in at a “pre-seed” (capitalization intentional) stage over to folks who would previously be considered my peer venture funds doing Seed-stage investments. There is too much capital coming into tech investing.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started at Udemy, in Turkey in 2006 and 2007, there was no funding available. We had to raise some seed capital. So, I was really interested in programming, design development, but I didn't realize the kind of business aspect for a very, very long time. In seven days, we launched the application.