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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

This happens slowly because while public markets trade daily and prices then adjust instantly, private markets don’t get reset until follow-on financing rounds happen which can take 6–24 months. We do deals in NYC, Paris, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, London?—?but but we give you the ++ of also having access in LA.

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The 4 Best Cities In America For Startups

YoungUpstarts

Seattle might not be the biggest city on the map, but it’s got a reach that extends to all corners of the globe. The Seattle tech community is particularly popular, with a large number of companies busy working away on the next big thing. Miami has had an on and off relationship with dot com development for over 25 years.

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Unrequited Love

Steve Blank

The VC’s suggested I should spend a day at Onyx Software, an early pioneer in Sales Automation in Seattle. With an unexpected job offer in-hand I spent the plane flight home concluding that our family had already planted roots too deep to move to Seattle. So I called on my friends at Onyx and got on a plane to Seattle.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

Construction, utilities, transportation, retail, finance, insurance and real estate startups are industries that hit hardest on startups with an average failure rate among them of 40%. I have close friends in accounting and finance that have tapped into newer businesses and taken the ride with them as they have doubled and then doubled again.

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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

… “ Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process. Peter Nesbitt, VP of Finance at Teampay , said, “Forecasting is exceptionally challenging in practice, especially as end users drive an era of distributed spending.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC?

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

For instance, I saw a local, Seattle startup with a high-value exact-match domain name that (if they launched in this segment) would have put them in direct competition with the likes of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. In some cases, finding a serviceable niche among startup businesses can be very lucrative.