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How Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions

Mucker Lab

The expected lull between “seed” and “harvest”. First, realize that the venture business has cycles of 7–10 years simply based on the fact that almost all venture funds have a legal lifetime of the same duration. Furthermore, the venture “business” is a business of making money off outliers. Betting on the wrong horse.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: MolyWorks

Austin Startup

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , MolyWorks is building a distributed recycling network to convert scrap metal into additive manufacturing grade powder and parts at the point of need. Decades if not centuries are required for Mother Nature to build the ecosystems we are aggressively harvesting.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I’ve also experimented with using services which are marketplaces between LPs and GPs: CEPRES , DiligenceVault , FundVeil , Harvest Exchange , and Palico. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.