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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence. And last quarter we now know grew at just 1.6%. Such is the case with advanced batteries. today (and that excludes the effects of inflation).

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital. People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). &# A: Yes. Bad behavior but prevalent. Minutes 11-16 in the video. <<

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

I’m a self confessed lover of technology and how empowering it can be. I make my career from evangelising the benefits of technology and I wrote my first lines of code on a 16k RAM-only computer, way before any of this was trendy. A new commodity which has been brought into the market by technology firms, priced and sold.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

Eventually, that vacuum was filled with capital gained even earlier than the Seed round — i.e., “pre-seed.”. A $42M technology-focused Pre-Seed fund. Seed rounds were getting bigger. Series A had become the 4th round of funding. This created a vacuum at the earliest stages of funding. That’s the beautiful part.

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Net and VC Loyalty

BeyondVC

There is not much for me to add to this article as we all know that the only loyalty VCs have is to their Limited Partners to generate long-term capital gains. It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference. If Java happens to be the right technology platform to use, then so be it.

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Assembling a Tulip: Can you engineer thriving Web3 communities of humans (DAOs) using code?

This is going to be BIG.

Massive sums are sitting on the sidelines just waiting to be more than just money, or cynically, waiting to be able to be money just without the whole capital gains part that comes with converting it back to fiat. to get a handle on—or perhaps those in the community just aren’t interested.

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