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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

When I put all of this together, what I see is: In the Bay Area, the seed stage is getting squeezed from all sides during this summer solstice of. 4/ Orthogonal Competition – I recently tweeted about a new breed of early-stage technology investor that has its roots in public equities (hedge funds, long/short, etc.)

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Will Seed Funds Be Multigenerational?

Hunter Walker

” A great line uttered at dinner last night by one of the senior GPs at one of the best early stage funds. One question that’s been on my mind since we started Homebrew in early 2013 was whether seed venture would end up being multigenerational or not. Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash.

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Thoughts on Organic Deal Flow

View from Seed

Micah Rosenbloom (@micahjay1) September 24, 2019. When seed investing was less mature, there was a high degree of deal trading among early stage investors. This was because fund sizes were small, and many investors were relatively unsophisticated about leading early stage investments, so they liked to move in packs.

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Investors! Join Me On An Epic 3 Day Roadshow Across the Great State of Texas

Austin Startup

June 4–6, 2019. Find out what the buzz is all about and make valuable connections with local investors who you can syndicate deals with. Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas since 2013. Venture Capitalists and Family Offices from around the U.S. and around the world.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. As a standalone economy, Texas would have the ninth largest country in the world with a GDP of almost 1.9

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Why Investor Titles are Important

This is going to be BIG.

— Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) February 21, 2019. Crowd investing platforms allow anyone to be an investor even if they’ve never even interacted with the team—so you could have made two dozen investments and still have very little firsthand knowledge of what life is like at a startup or what early stage founders go through.

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