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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. But we never lost the finance bug. We look for projects and protocols that can rethink major classes of global commerce. We were infatuated with tech.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Cushman and Wakefield: Global commercial real estate services. Jones Lang Lasalle: Global commercial real estate services. See his innovation economy blog and follow him on Twitter. Worked with.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. Finance where needed. When the market tanked they had the “triage problem&# – which portfolio companies to save, which to kill. We need some visibility. Cut where needed.

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Cash Flow Matters: Accounts Receivable Financing Fuels New Model Of Working Capital

YoungUpstarts

It’s this battle to control the stop and go nature of start-up cash flow that is driving growth in accounts receivable financing, also known as factoring. That is changing, and more global arenas like freight, farming, staffing, oil exploration and all manner of manufacturing are leveraging its simplicity as a powerful cash management tool.

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Monday, January 16, 2012. Portfolio. (3). ▼ 2012. (1). Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Yahoo Finance. Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. BlablaCar - Travel Revolution. internet. (6).