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Liquidity for Venture Backed Companies Still Comes Largely in One Flavor—Cash Acquisitions

Pascal's View

Denis Dougherty of Intersouth Partners was recently interviewed by Brian Gormley of The Wall Street Journal on the decade-long liquidity crisis that continues to plague the venture capital industry. Challenge yourself to do better as a seller! More on this topic to follow…

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. As we started to focus on what each of us wanted to do, Adam raised his venture capital fund – Plus Capital. And Jamie hers.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Agrawal, Catalini, and Goldfarb (2013) examined the types of risks that donors encounter in crowdfunding. Education plays a major role in venture capital. Kuppuswamy and Bayus (2013) analyzed all Kickstarter projects from 2009 to 2012.

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Four years at Version One & some thoughts on “Moneyball for VC”

Version One Ventures

In the summer of 2013, I was introduced to Boris by a fellow Canadian, Brendan Baker. Over the next two weeks, I set out to build my own Mattermark / CBInsights by aggregating the APIs of Crunchbase, AngelList, and Twitter, as well as any other relevant datasets I could get access to. This week marks my fourth year at Version One.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

You see, Dan knows more about venture than most people; and if Dan isn’t aware that “pre-seed is a thing,” then I haven’t done a good enough job of explaining to the world what I and K9 do! Pre-Seed is the first institutional capital invested in a company. Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised.

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Facetune Appears in Apple’s Top 5 iPhone Paid Apps List for Seventh Consecutive Year

The Startup Magazine

Facetune was originally released in 2013, and Facetune 2 was released in 2016. Lightricks was founded in 2013 by Zeev Farbman, Nir Pochter, Yaron Inger, Amit Goldstein and Itai Tsiddon. This round was led by the prestigious global funds of Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital.