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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Also portfolio management strategy has shifted a bit in recent years, and many large investors now evaluate at all risky assets together (US tech IPOs, Brazilian bonds, Chinese private equity, etc) rather than making discrete allocations to each bucket. The global macro conditions could weigh heavily on the IPO market for awhile.

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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. However, there is actually much more to Gust than is apparent on the surface, or even from the viewpoint of a current user (either entrepreneur or investor).

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. Our investment thesis is simple: Blockchains will impact trillions of dollars of economic activity across many industries globally. We look for projects and protocols that can rethink major classes of global commerce.

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A review of the first eleven Techstars Unicorns

David Cohen

Twilio became a popular perk for Techstars companies globally over the years and many other Techstars portfolio companies use the product extensively. “ #8: Digital Ocean (2012). DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider that was funded by the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2012, after a referral from IA Ventures.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

techcrunch.com

Thursday, August 9th, 2012. The fund views its portfolio startups as fulfilling one of the three layers of the “Big Data stack”: 1. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. © 2012 AOL Inc. Disrupt SF. Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups.

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Cracking The Code: Global warming: a plague for humanity?

Cracking the Code

Global warming: a plague for humanity? After all, global warming might not be a bad thing for everyone. Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1). Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Cracking The Code. Friday, March 30, 2007. Europe Consumer. (1). Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6). software.

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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! Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. BlablaCar - Travel Revolution. Europe Consumer. (1). internet. (6).