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Thoughts on Organic Deal Flow

View from Seed

The best kind of traffic to a web based business is organic traffic. Similarly, the best kind of deal flow for a VC is organic deal flow. Less organic deal flow is when it’s clear that an investor was inserted into a broad fundraising pipeline late in the process.

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Steel In Their Eyes – Why VC’s Should Be Startup CEO’s

Steve Blank

Today, you can start a web/mobile/cloud startup for $500,000 and have money left over. Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio). Then take a year and $250-500K to start and run a mobile/web/cloud company. Here’s why. ——-. People skills. People skills.

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Report Examines Where the Top VC Firms Are Investing

ReadWriteStart

According to that report, over the past year the top 30 firms participated in 663 unique deals (almost a quarter of all deals) with amounting to almost $9 billion in investment. Healthcare was the number 2 sector for both the deal numbers and deal size.).

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No One Wins In Business Plan Competitions

Steve Blank

Venture Firms use the contests as another source of deal flow and talent. There are now examples of business model presentations on the web. Business plans are easy to grade, score and judge. Schools can get Venture Firms to fund prizes for the best business plan. There is no alternative.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

Setting up a clean, effective web site that lists companies seeking funding and provides accounts for investors to interact with them is not rocket science. There are literally hundreds of platforms currently operating that connect investors and startups, and there have been at least a hundred others that have come and gone.

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Snowflakes in the Valley: What Happens When 40 Nordic Entrepreneurs Visit Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

During the holidays, the Web becomes an even more significant part of our lives, connecting us to our relatives and friends around the world. There are probably 10 events equivalent or larger than Le Web throughout the year, as well as smaller events every day. The market is larger, less fragmented, the consumers are earlier adopters.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App). Plus, as I live in Los Angeles it is where some of the smartest talent thinking about this space resides. I’m looking at how the digital living room will change media consumption. I still love B2B application. I am really bullish on data-as-a-service.

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