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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. Because this is all VCs do and if we intend to work with all of our fellow VCs and entrepreneurs when the rain ends and the sun shines again our reputations matter greatly.

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What You Can Learn from a Scorpion

Both Sides of the Table

On the one hand it denied Facebook from enormous amounts of web traffic that Google controlled at the time but in the longer-run due to network effects of social networks it made Facebook significantly more powerful. It is a really big historical decision that Facebook made not to have Google index its pages.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re really an entrepreneur you’ll find a way to network with the right people. Some angel groups have a reputation for slow decision making processes and not enough value add. I can say that you should do your homework to find out the reputation. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh?

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

abovethecrowd.com

One company with an astonishingly high rake is recently IPOed Shutterstock, a photo-purchasing marketplace where the content owner receives only 30% of gross receipts. Combined with a bidding and reputation system, oDesk had built an “ebay for work.” The bottom line is they could have been amazing partners.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. Our answer: a network. A network solves this problem because all of their friends and contacts would be on it — and friends of their friends.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Social media. Social networking. Social games. Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. From $1.5B Featured stories.

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Blitzscaling Beyond Startups

Reid Hoffman

Today, Groupon is worth about 1/10th what it was on the day of its IPO, and revenues have been flat for years. Network effects occur when increased usage of a good or service leads to an increase in its value, which in turn makes it more attractive and this leads to further increases in usage. Advantage 2: Iteration.

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