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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

At Risk – Usually starts with a firm beginning to see challenges in large portions of its portfolio, or in keeping the partnership together, or in the viability of the firm’s core strategy as broader markets start to shift (e.g. there’s a heck of a lot fewer pure-play cleantech VCs today than 5 years ago).

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) Was it using government money as a private SBIC firm?

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Seed Investments in Insurrection

This is going to be BIG.

Similarly, I just got a pitch for a startup providing telehealth access that specialized in allergies—which I was pretty excited about until they told me that pharmaceutical companies were fronting the cost of their marketing. Roblox will have a very nice IPO one day if it doesn’t have a big hate speech problem on its platform.