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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

We make a minority of our investments in new technology areas where deep technical innovation is occurring and where we believe there is will be a large future market opportunity. For these companies, we look for deep technology differentiation plus early market validation or clear opportunity for such.

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"What's Next in Tech" Event in Boston

Altgate

Until relatively recently, the capital requirements of technology businesses were quite large. The virtual office tools today are so impressive that you can source talent globally and simultaneously improve productivity while cutting costs–unthinkable 10 years ago. AWS is a great example. Bookmark the permalink.

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Why Are Venture Capitalists Ignoring The Future? The Emerging Domestic Economy

David Teten

According to the National Venture Capital Association/Dow Jones VentureSource, the VC industry is dominated by men (89% of VC Partners), specifically white men (76% of the total). Despite all this, we are living on a different planet when it comes to which companies receive venture capital.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. on the Richter scale, but it severed the Bay Bridge, flattened a section of freeway in Oakland, and killed sixty-three people. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?