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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

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. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Thoughts on Spanish Startups from La Red Innova 2011

VC Cafe

Mobile web usage in Spain is high, at 20% of mobile phone users in 2011. billion invested in Q1 of 2011. More and more incubators are popping up, students are participating in business plan competitions, and actively look to get involved with startups. 2) There’s a hunger for venture capital funding.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. In 2011, Yale launched Yale-NUS, a sister university based in Singapore. Incubate non-Yalies.

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What the AngelList Debate Means for the Future of Startup Investing

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Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). startupcto

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ProfessorVC: Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Ways

Professor VC

Thursday, April 7, 2011. My partner in Menlo Incubator , Gary Kremen , and I had a recent debate on which one of us hates convertible debt more. April 25, 2011 11:00 PM. May 14, 2011 2:39 PM. June 7, 2011 11:58 AM. Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time? ▼ 2011. (7). Venture News.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor VC

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. I'm doing a new academic experiment now - an incubator at Menlo College where we are bringing the start-ups to campus and giving the students an opportunity to see how they develop and work as interns.

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

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Sponsored Links His start-up Viddy, launched in early 2011, created a smartphone app that allows people to capture, enhance and share video and already has 40 million registered users. Veteran investor Timothy Draper says venture-capital firms are taking notice of Silicon Beach. Hes raised more than $38 million in funding.