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What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?

Both Sides of the Table

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. However, they have been sending VCs far more investment checks in the last ten years than they’ve gotten back as distributions.

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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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7 Strategies To Reduce The Cost Of Finding Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The right investor will have specific feedback on pricing models, distribution and market positioning to improve scalability. As they say, you only get one chance to make a great first impression, so don’t pitch to a key angel group or venture capital team for practice. Use initial feedback wisely to improve your case.

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SXSW Startups: Fantag

Austin Startup

They focus on helping content creators and app developers create, identify, package and distribute those meaningful video highlights in ways that help them reach more customers and generate more revenue. The Fantag team came together at the end of 2015. COO Cheryl Beninga shared more about the company. Our technology and team.

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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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’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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Learning from Jeff Bezos: Big winners pay for so many experiments

Version One Ventures

Amazon’s Annual Letter to Shareholders has become a must-read for entrepreneurs, investors, and business leaders – and the recent 2015 letter provides great insights into how Jeff Bezos thinks and how one of the most successful companies on Earth operates (this year, Amazon became the fastest company ever to reach $100 billion in annual sales).