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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Early liquidity. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Short track record.

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

The three-question framework goes as such: Q: How much tech-related market cap will be created in the next 10-20 years? That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future.

Valuation 156
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The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product.

Steve Blank

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.

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From Seed to Series A

Reid Hoffman

The term “early-stage” covers a lot of territory in venture investing, from incubating a brand-new idea, to investing in a Series A. At the seed stage, we have backed very non-obvious, non-pedigreed entrepreneurs, in spaces that weren’t obvious, who ended up being amazing. We can also help evaluate the market.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). open source framework for Ruby. a PHP open source framework. high-level Python framework. Did I mention itâ??s