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Revisiting the Craft Beer Metaphor for the VC Industry

View from Seed

This happened both in term of large-scale mergers (Coors and Miller for example) as well as via acquisition of craft players (like Heinekin’s acquisition of Lagunitas). Within venture, some rumblings of similar combinations have brewed from time to time. Not everything has been identical, but many of the broad themes rhyme.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” After the dot.com bubble collapsed, venture investors spent the next three years doing triage, sorting through the rubble to find companies that weren’t bleeding cash and could actually be turned into businesses.

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How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup Company Lawyer

If you don’t, please educate yourself on this site, Venture Hacks and the term sheet series by Brad Feld/Jason Mendelson, among other places. If you really want to understand the nuances in venture capital financing documents, please review the NVCA model venture capital financing documents. . under $500K).

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Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC

abovethecrowd.com

The traditional IPO process does not use a market-based approach (like an order -matching system ) to efficiently match supply and demand and to discover price. Matching supply-demand through an electronic system is exceptionally straight-forward circa 2020. Door #3: The SPAC Merger. Did anyone here take Microeconomics 101?

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The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product.

Steve Blank

After that there’s a discussion of how the product will reach the customer and the potential distribution channel. The distribution discussion leads to some conclusions about competition: who are they and how they differ. The distribution discussion also leads to some assumptions about pricing. Marketing is at its peak.

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Economic Moats: Who Has Them? And How Do You Get One?

ConversionXL

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. The company limits costs through a management and distribution structure that serves multiple stores in a geographic area. It’s one that many venture capital–funded startups deploy. But demand won’t scale.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). You may be surprised to learn that this is already a massive industry.