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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. These days I find myself doing less. Not less work but fewer “things.”

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

Typically it’s when Cambridge Associates releases their benchmark data on the VC asset class ( here’s a 2010 example article from TechCrunch ) or an organization like the Kauffman Foundation publishes a white paper ( a 2012 example article from Business Insider here ). Even if you’re top decile for your vintage year (e.g.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? In the mean time, best wishes for a safe, happy and healthy 2012. What kind of advantage will this create vs. our competitors ? Barriers to entry ?

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. © 2007-2012, Xconomy, Inc. Biologist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Steve Seitz. of Washington.

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VC Paradox: The Best of Times & Worst of Times (Part I)

Genuine VC

invested in startups during the second quarter of 2012 (the highest in a decade!) But again, the aggregate numbers are being driven by just a few of the largest macrobrew firms. It must be the best of times for the industry with $8.1B along “… with seed-round venture capital hit[ing] an all-time high ” [According to CB Insights ].

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1). Europe Consumer. (1). Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6). software. (10).

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How to Remain King of the World amidst Titanic Disruptions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

To bring an additional perspective to the conversation, I invited Lightspeed portfolio companies BloomReach, EdgeSpring, MapR, Nutanix, PernixData and Virtual Instruments who are focused on helping companies store, manage, analyze, and surface next-generation data and content.