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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

Both Sides of the Table

It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. While this it total FDI as opposed to just venture, it should give you an indication of the international trend. Baidu alone raised $3.2

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0

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

Austin Startup

Capital Factory has partnered with AngelList Rolling Funds to better meet the needs of today’s investors. Previously, the venture capital asset class has been primarily for wealthy individuals, pension funds, and large institutions.

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Founder Interview: Bill Walsh on Eliminating Small Business Failure

The Startup Magazine

We interviewed Bill Walsh, CEO/Founder of Business Coaching / Venture Capital firm Powerteam International. Get access to low cost capital. Call all of your best customers. Here’s more from The Startup Magazine Founder Interview series. Bill hosts and speaks at events all over the world! Pay attention to our leaders.

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The Venture Capital Shakeout

Andrew Payne

The venture capital business is in the middle of a shakeout. For too long, venture’s been over-funded and over-staffed with homogeneity: the same kinds of partners, operating with the same fund model, looking at the same investments, in the same markets. LPs missing capital calls (a very big deal).

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ProfessorVC: The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic

Professor VC

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. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing.

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Every founder and startup investor should be contrarian

The Equity Kicker

In the world of startups and venture capital all the money is concentrated in a small number of winners and average returns are probably below zero. Doing better than average requires what Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital called ‘different and better’ thinking in a recent memo to his investors.

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