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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

ReadWriteStart

Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there. On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. The companies were all part of Capital Innovators, an accelerator venture fund that has been operating since last fall.

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

The same is not true for venture capital of course, since the underlying startups VCs invest in aren’t publicly selling their equity. 4) Venture Is Driven By Exceptional, Not Average Outcomes - The entire VC business is based upon outlier outcomes, not the average.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

At HOF Capital, we support our companies through 7 main levers (i.e., the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. Startup companies inherently have no brand; we leverage our brand and networks to promote theirs.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?

VC Adventure

Back in the olden days of venture capital, company boards had wide discretion in pricing company options. It was and is imprecise science but – at least in the case of venture backed startups – there wasn’t much harm in an option being priced low. Quick note: I’m not your lawyer.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. It wants to click.

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There’s more to generative AI than picks and shovels

VC Cafe

Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.