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Beer Kegs and the Future of Venture Capital: What It Means for Entrepreneurs

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Last September I wrote a post outlining my view of the venture capital industry: increasingly evolving like the beer industry as it continues to mature. Large VC firms resemble Budweiser-type macrobrews, competing based on scale and brand with a standardized product across multiple geographies, sectors, and stages.

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A Beer Drinker's View of the Venture Industry

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As the venture capital space matures, I see a similar pattern emerging. In many ways, the beer market of the 90’s is like the venture market today. As the venture market both matures and recovers from the past decade of overfunding & poor returns, the results of these strategies will play a sharper role.

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VC Paradox: The Best of Times & Worst of Times (Part I)

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In the past few weeks, we’ve seen extremely positive headlines about the surge in VC fundings like “ Venture Capital Hits Highest Level Since Dot-Com Bubble.” along “… with seed-round venture capital hit[ing] an all-time high ” [According to CB Insights ]. It must be the best of times for the industry with $8.1B

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Myth Busters: Debunking Seven Conventional Wisdom Maxims of Venture Capital

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Compared to most other areas of finance, venture capital is practiced as more of an art, as opposed to a science. The art of venture capital also means that for entrepreneurs raising it, there isn’t one definitive playbook which can be used as a guide. MYTH: The venture capital model is broken.

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Director of Platform & Community

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This two-year role is a unique opportunity to work full-time within a venture capital firm, setting and executing on a outward-facing strategy to interface with both its portfolio and the broader entrepreneurial community. Exceptionally high attention to detail. Experience involving business operations and/or project management a plus.

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Fellow VCs: Here’s Where to Invest $1B+

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Take that as a proxy, and it’s fairly safe to project that the HBS classes from 2012 onwards will likely raise a $1B in venture capital over the next few years.

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What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says

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One of the things that surprised me most about venture capital when I got into the business is how much VCs seem to like to meet for breakfast. But breakfast for venture capitalists is an open free-for-all for all sorts of networking meetings and conversations.

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