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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

Innovation is Becoming More Broadly Distributed. The biggest rise, unsurprisingly, was China, which enjoyed a huge surge in venture capital dollars over the past decade and enjoyed its fair share of blockbuster exits. Not surprisingly, we’ve seen a broader set of geographies represented by the Midas list over the last 10 years.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? The Kauffman Foundation analyzed their own investments in venture capital (100 funds) over a 20-year period and found, “Only twenty of the hundred venture funds generated returns that beat a public market equivalent by more than 3% annually….Sixty-two

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Blockstream

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The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. One of the ones that really bothers me is how Venture Capitalists try and conflate what they do as being complicated.

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Which Investors Are Glad To Pay For Mediocre Performance?

David Teten

ff Venture Capital is both an investor and also runs our back office on Addepar.). Teten : I’m not sure I agree, as inevitably some people will look like geniuses in a random distribution of outcomes. Alternative Assets Contributed Articles Financial Services Fund Management Investing Venture Capital'

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. He had already sent a bunch of his staff on projects in Argentina & South Africa at super cheap rates just to keep his staff busy. Sure, you can get away with less, but why?

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