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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

This happens slowly because while public markets trade daily and prices then adjust instantly, private markets don’t get reset until follow-on financing rounds happen which can take 6–24 months. Of these companies that become well financed we only need 15–25% of THOSE to pan out to return 2–3x the fund. It’s just math.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

Is there a means of efficient distribution amidst the noise? Will new, native distribution channels emerge? Can these businesses be built more efficiently than ever before, and what does that mean for how they will be financed? How defensible are these businesses? Is there any compounding advantage? have to do with timing.

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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

With greater perceived risk to follow-on financing rounds, having a co-investor that can share the load of a second seed or a small series B round will be more attractive. This may be positive in some ways, but I think will hurt some of the interest in super innovative deep tech projects due to high perceived downstream financing risk.

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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

View from Seed

The top quartile has distributed 2.03x (vs. 1.68) and the median fund now has distributed 1.27X (vs. The longer the portfolio maintains the same value without distributing back cash, the worse the fund’s ultimate IRR. Based on that metric, the top quartile fund has now distributed 2.03X after 12 years. 2 years ago).

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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

Private financing market continued to see strong deal activity with $3.6B in total financings in Q2, surpassing Q1 total through 169 deals. Over half of financing deals in gaming went to blockchain gaming companies in H1 2022. Source: Minecraft blog. Game creation, distribution and monetisation supply chain ( Newzoo ).

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Companies They are Starting in 2023

Hearpreneur

In addition to providing customer care and assistance, a virtual assistant may also develop web pages or compose blog entries, administer email newsletters, carry out sales and marketing chores, generate sales leads, and conduct a variety of other jobs. Then, you may begin to promote your items on your blog and social media profiles.