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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

Both Sides of the Table

It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. So VCs made fewer investments at lower prices and generally on terms that were more favorable to investors relative to 2015. Baidu alone raised $3.2

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A Guide to Funding a Business in the U.K.

Up and Running

The good news is that there are more routes to financing available to businesses of all sizes in the U.K. The effect has been widespread, but one predictable consequence is a groundswell of demand for credit, loans, and cash flow finance solutions amongst the U.K.’s than ever before. s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

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A conversation with Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz, author and speaker at Lean Startup Conference 2019

Startup Lessons Learned

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. What is venture capital, really? And what does a venture capital firm do?

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’15 is Gonna Be a Good One

Growthink Blog

With a little luck, 2015 could go down as one of the best years ever for American business. In addition to the massive flows of capital and wealth created and distributed by the top tech. Barring that, on balance for entrepreneurs and executives out there seeking to make their mark, 2015 is looking nice and juicy.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. And yet Uber and Lyft are the market leaders, with a combined 98% of the US market , while Sidecar shut down in 2015.

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Mapping The Haystack Portfolio Across The United States

Haystack

Over the past year, and especially over the last few days, the Bay Area tech Twitter echo chamber has been tweeting about the advent of remote, or distributed, or satellite teams for their companies across the country and the world. For me, as a seed investor, I started to feel this struggle back in 2015.

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My XOXO Talk

Bryce Dot VC

These notions of an independent ethos don’t map that well to what we know about venture capital, which is a very staged and formulaic way of building a company. As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. Because venture does provide a lot of good things to a bunch of really great companies.