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Now Any Accredited Investor Can Invest in Texas Startups with Capital Factory and AngelList

Austin Startup

Joe Lonsdale relocates 8VC and Jim Breyer relocates Breyer Capital. A “who’s who” list of Silicon Valley leaders moving to ATX This shift did not happen overnight?—?it Capital Factory has partnered with AngelList Rolling Funds to better meet the needs of today’s investors. it has been decades in the making.

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Q3 2012 VC Fundraising Data and Conclusions

ithacaVC

If one considers NEA a Silicon Valley firm (I know they are headquartered in Baltimore but they have a very large and successful west coast practice), the top five funds raised are in San Francisco and represented 55% of the capital raised. The average size of fund raised in 3Q12 was $94M, although the median was $160M.

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Chronic Under-financing of EU Start-ups Driven by Mindset

Babbling VC

I've read and written about it many times but I think there is one thing which is never loudly spoken about when comparing the EU to Silicon Valley (or the US in general). Therefore, it's an illusion to think that you can get by raising far less nowadays if you want to deliver the necessary returns venture capital calls for. .

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ProfessorVC: The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. However, as we soon discovered, many of these firms were forced to hoard capital for existing portfolio companies and focus most of their time and energy on deciding which ones deserved these reserves. ProfessorVC. Tuesday, January 20, 2009.