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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Thomson Reuters data shows that around $10 billion of LP money went into VCs per year pre bubble. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. The Funding Problem.

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We’re hiring an analyst!

Version One Ventures

Helping with reporting for our investors, including writing quarterly updates and preparing LP advisory board meetings. We’re looking for someone who demonstrates: Native understanding of the ecosystem of web and mobile products. Good product instincts – you get what a great web or mobile product is made of.

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#GivingThanks: Jerry Colonna and Naropa University

Feld Thoughts

NetGenesis had raised some money and had created three different products – net.Forms (a web form manager), net.Thread (a web threaded discussion board), and net.Analysis (a weblog analysis tool). I was chair of NetGenesis, which was the first angel investment I’d made after selling Feld Technologies (my first company).

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Venture Capital

aweissman.com

It is not the time sink of the deal and diligence process, but maybe the lack of quality deal flow, too much LP money in the system, everyone wanting in on the Internet boom (again!),

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Zilliant Raises $13M Series….G?

Austin Startup

So why would you not think that internet retailers are interested in maximizing pricing as well? There must be many ways to maximize price (and therefore margin) if you can understand something about a web visitor. What time of day are they shopping? What other products have they looked at? How did they arrive at our website?

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Top 10 dying industries

Start Up Blog

Sales recorded music sold on a physical transportable device (Tapes, CD’s, LP’s et al) have declined 76.3% Cost of wages in labour intensive industry. Music Stores. In the past decade almost 80% of all music stores have closed down in the USA. in the past 10 years.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

The “Infrastructure Phase” of the Internet … Before we had an Internet startup explosion we needed infrastructure which spawned the original tech startup community in Silicon Valley. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?