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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

A check-in aggregation platform. Blog Archive. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My Blog List. We hope to see you again soon.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). Blog Archive. My Blog List.

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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

This blog post compares the existing crowdfunding bills and provides an ideal solution which carefully balances the viability of crowdfunding as a source of capital against the risk of fraud: [link]. My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. Blog Archive.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

But if I see a really great piece of work product, I generally will just try to, say hey, let's post this on the blog externally. ER : Oh, if it's worth doing, it's worth blogging about. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me.

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Cracking The Code: Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends

Cracking the Code

I attended yesterday the 10th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends organized by the Churchill Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. Blog Archive. Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs.