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What To Do if Your TAM is Too Small for VCs
SaaStr
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Dear SaaStr: What Happens if One Founder Wants to Quit When the Startup Has Just Raised VC Funding?
SaaStr
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Alpaca VC unveils two new investment vehicles, including its real estate roots
Techcrunch
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20VC: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help, The Most Important Signals to Assess When Meeting Founders & Why Kids Bring Less Happiness and More Joy with Phin Barnes @ TheGP
20VC
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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Point Nine Capital’s General Partner, Lattice’s CEO, Top Annual Sessions and more!
SaaStr
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Dear SaaStr: We Don’t Need It. Should We Still Go After Venture Capital, and When?
SaaStr
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Salary Transparency: Clarity or Chaos?
a16z
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Introducing the a16z Global Payments Hub
a16z
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Secondary Investor Industry Ventures Raises $1.7B+ For Two New Funds
Crunchbase
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Surprisingly Large Sums Have Gone Into Bug Farming Startups
Crunchbase
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Elevate announces CIX acquisition and new $2-million innovation challenge for youth mental health
BetaKit
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Front Row Ventures closes over-subscribed $5.5-million CAD pan-Canadian fund
BetaKit
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Luge Capital looks to buck FinTech trends with $71-million CAD first close of new fund
BetaKit
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How You Actually Feel Selling Your Company, Is It Worth Tolerating a Toxic Employee, & TechCrunch’s Former Editor in Chief Reflects on His Decade at the Helm [linkblog]
Hunter Walk
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Former Cultivator manager Jordan McFarlen joins Conexus Venture Capital as director
BetaKit
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Startups Fail All The Time, But Many Could Fail Better By Thinking Beyond the VCs and Founders
Hunter Walk
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Aquanow launches AQN Digital Ventures Fund to back next generation of blockchain startups
BetaKit
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Venture Capitalists Will Overpay For Seed Rounds But For Reasons You Likely Haven’t Considered
Hunter Walk
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Inovia announces $34-million CAD Discovery Fund for early-stage VCs
BetaKit
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A|I: The AI Times – Why Midjourney’s founder rejects venture capital
BetaKit
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Cultivator hits $100M milestone as Conexus loses VC Sean O’Connor
BetaKit
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Why VC Isn’t Right for Most Startups, The Place Where Taylor Swift, Gwar & Cypress Hill are Equals, and Parrothead Memories (RIP Jimmy)
Hunter Walk
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How “pirate” entrepreneur Lloyed Lobo kicked his self-destructive habits
BetaKit
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Log: Writing with ChatGPT as My Copilot
Marcelino Pantoja
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With Ello, AI Becomes a Personalized Reading Coach for Kids
Homebrew
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Sean O’Connor steps down as managing director of Conexus Venture Capital, Emmertech
BetaKit
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Former Global Founders Capital partner launches Northside Ventures to back pre-seed Canadian entrepreneurs across North America
BetaKit
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OMERS Ventures loses VC head in latest leadership turnover
BetaKit
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A Technical Cofounder Tells You How To Find Your Technical Cofounder, Where The Stuff We Return to Amazon Goes, a Benchmark VC on Rethinking Your AI Startup, and More….
Hunter Walk
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OMERS Ventures turnover continues with global head Damien Steel joining Deep Sky as CEO
BetaKit
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Gambit Partners aims to take some of the risk out of early-stage investing by leaning on its LPs
BetaKit
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Canadian VCs talk fundraising, “shitty” behaviour, mannequin startups & more
BetaKit
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Newcomer's VC Directory (Part 1)
Eric Newcomer
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Ideogram launches with $22.3 million CAD for generative AI text-to-image platform like DALL-E
BetaKit
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Qubit: David Clark (VenCap) on VC Power Law
Marcelino Pantoja
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Lightspeed VC Michael Mignano on Why Apple’s Threats Influenced His Decision to Sell Anchor to Spotify, Why No FOMO in Venture is Good (AI Aside), & What NYC Founders Need to Realize
Hunter Walk
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How Investors Kill Companies
Eric Jorgenson
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Early-stage VC funding and mega-deals carry Canada to second-largest Q2 on record
BetaKit
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Why Bill Gurley & Josh Wolfe Think VCs Won't Deploy All Their Dry Powder Anytime Soon
Eric Newcomer
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Turpentine's newest VC podcast
Erik Torenberg
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New Rousseauism, Post-Modernism, and Moral Primitives
Erik Torenberg
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Devote Yourself to the Cause of Your Life
Evan Armstrong
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Summer In Review: Databricks Buys Mosaic, VC Firms Slow Down Their Investments, Sequoia's Shakeup & Other Top Stories from June & July
Eric Newcomer
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Here Are The Venture Capital Firms That Are Investing Much Less
Eric Newcomer
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The New York Tech Sector
Fred Wilson
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Of Course You Can Beat the Market
Evan Armstrong
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How to Build an Irresistible Product for VC Investors
Nir Eyal
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How This Ends (Part Three)
Fred Wilson
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A Bleak VC Outlook, Andreessen Roots for a Fight, A Ripple Win & Liquid Death IPO Talks
Eric Newcomer
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Qubit: JP Morgan Alternatives Guide Q2 2023
Marcelino Pantoja
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What Happened to the Creator Economy?
Evan Armstrong
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Qubit: Roelof Botha (Sequoia) on $10 Billion Gains
Marcelino Pantoja
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The Guide To Alt Brand Accounts
Greg Isenberg
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Venture Deals Summer 2023 Course
Brad Feld
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business strategy, design, and decision making in web3
web3 weekly
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How Vanta Grew Through the Downturn
Mario Gabriele
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Modern Meditations: Katherine Boyle
Mario Gabriele
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You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup
Evan Armstrong
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Qubit: Cambridge Associates U.S. VC Benchmark Q3 2022
Marcelino Pantoja
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Required Cash-on-Cash Multiples in Venture
Marcelino Pantoja
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Qubit: NVCA Yearbook 2023
Marcelino Pantoja
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Thinking About AI
Albert Wenger
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Good for Founders, Bad For Investors
Eric Jorgenson
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SVB and The Tyranny of the Commons
Seth Levine
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The Banking Crisis: More Kicking the Can
Albert Wenger
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Leadership during a crisis
Elizabeth Yin
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Qubit: Startup Banking at SVB
Marcelino Pantoja
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Qubit: Research on Startup CEO Replacement
Marcelino Pantoja
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India Impressions (2023)
Albert Wenger
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Breaking orthodoxies in venture capital
Sar Haribhakti
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Finch Raises $40 Million Series B To Connect HR Systems Via API and Create the Single Source of Truth
Homebrew
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Crowdbotics Raises $40 Million Series B For Modular Code Development Platform
Homebrew
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Scatter Brain highlights
Sar Haribhakti
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Venture Capital Red Flag Checklist
Bill Gurley
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ERC standards; DeFi liquidity provision costs; regulatory roundup
web3 weekly
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Creator Economics (talk I gave at Money 20/20)
Eric Jorgenson
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Adonis Raises Seed Round So Health Care Providers Can Spend Less Time on Revenue Management and More on Patient Care
Homebrew
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building in web2 vs web3; hot topics in NFTs, art, AI; more
web3 weekly
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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?
Mark Suster
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Techstars Foundation and EforAll
Seth Levine
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Startup Boards Second Edition
Seth Levine
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Investors Think They’re More Impactful Than They Actually Are
Seth Levine
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Where to Find Truths
Eric Jorgenson
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IRR is a vanity metric
Seth Levine
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Leverage Map Worksheet #4 - Q1 Status, Q2 Planning
Eric Jorgenson
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Creator Capitalists
Eric Jorgenson
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Money in the Bank vs Burn
Seth Levine
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Seven Legends of Leverage
Eric Jorgenson
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Homebrew Forever: Same Mission, Our Capital
Homebrew
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Bowery Farming Acquires Traptic Because The Future of Food Is Robotic
Homebrew
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Celebrating Our Team Member Kate Stern and What’s Next for Her
Homebrew
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The Financialization of Fun: Crypto Gaming Thesis
Mechanism Capital
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Airbnb: The harder you fall, the stronger you rise
Rihard Jarc
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When big tech buys small tech
Ben Evans
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Density & the Future of Real Estate
Mark Suster
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Building and Compensating Your Board
Seth Levine
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How Crypto Projects Like Loot are Rewriting the Playbook for Building Communities
Means of Creation
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Downsides of a white hot economy
Seth Levine
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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit
Mark Suster
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Problem vs Opportunity First Approach
Brian Balfour
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Pledge 1% – Boardroom Allies
Seth Levine
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Calling Financial Innovators
Seth Levine
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No taxes, no algorithms: Why creators deserve websites
Josh Constine
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What Mistakes Do VCs Make When Fundraising?
Mark Suster
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The Creator MBA
Means of Creation
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Screendoor opens to accelerate diversity within VC and tech
Satya Patel
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The Power of Giving Away Power
Seth Levine
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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem
Bill Gurley
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You Need More Nietzsche in Your Life
Seth Levine
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Supporting Small Businesses – A Political Perspective
Seth Levine
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Beyond Reason
Pratyush Buddiga
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Older Entrepreneurs Leading the Way
Seth Levine
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Some Great New Builder Events This Week
Seth Levine
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Making a Better World – Uncharted’s Economic Equality Initiative
Seth Levine
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Fortune: Tech entrepreneurs grab the headlines, but COVID relief should target grass-roots small businesses
Seth Levine
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More New Builders Events! Tattered Cover Bookstore (and more!)
Seth Levine
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New Builders | Black Lab Sports Forum
Seth Levine
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Bolster’s Board Benchmark Study | Shout-out to Execs Looking for Independent Director Roles
Seth Levine
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Behind the Scenes: Writing “The New Builders”
Seth Levine
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The Covid Churn You’re Not Thinking About
Seth Levine
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Net Dollar Retention vs. Net Revenue Retention
Seth Levine
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Why We Raised $21M After Bootstrapping To An 8-Figure Revenue, Profitable Company
Brian Balfour
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Meet Atelier
Li Jin
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The Importance of the Democratization of Capital
Seth Levine
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Startup Communities | Rural Entrepreneurship
Seth Levine
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Portfolio company Blue Prism – result analysis
Rihard Jarc
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Declaring Victory for The Finance Assistant Network
Seth Levine
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One Thing at a Time
Seth Levine
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Trump’s Legacy of Racism
Seth Levine
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Why a 47-Year Republican is Crossing Party Lines and Lessons in Life and Business from Her Daughter’s Painful Journey
Seth Levine
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Come Join Us at Foundry: Hiring a Head of Network
Seth Levine
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VC Fund Returns Are More Skewed Than You Think
Seth Levine
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The Mike Speiser Incubation Playbook
Kevin Kwok
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Seeing Like an Algorithm
Eugene Wei
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The Real Story Of America Is About Small
Seth Levine
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With the Federal Government Doing Nothing, Communities Step Up
Seth Levine
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Work Lessons from the Pandemic
Seth Levine
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Performance-based Options Grants
Seth Levine
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Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC
Bill Gurley
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Options about your Options – How to think through your company’s option program
Seth Levine
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Better Zoom Meetings
Seth Levine
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Resume Coaching Resource
Seth Levine
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Colorado’s State-Wide Mask Order
Seth Levine
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Vacation in the time of Covid
Seth Levine
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Board Diversity / Network Diversity
Seth Levine
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Why Don't VCs Index Invest?
Nnamdi Iregbulem
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Functional Versus Strategic Meetings on Zoom
Seth Levine
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Make Juneteenth Meaningful
Seth Levine
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Failure is NOT an Option
David Sacks
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A Few Days
Seth Levine
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Enough
Seth Levine
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Uncertainty
Seth Levine
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Working Remotely – Extending WFH
Seth Levine
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Join Me Thursday for a Business Town Hall with Rep Joe Neguse
Seth Levine
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An Update on The Colorado Talent Network
Seth Levine
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Social Distancing or Social Distrust
Seth Levine
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Circular Advice from the SBA
Seth Levine
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The SBA Needs To Get It’s Act Together On The PPP
Seth Levine
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The Changing Nature of Entrepreneurship | EforAll
Seth Levine
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Colorado is Opening Up. Foundry is not. Here’s our Thinking.
Seth Levine
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We’ve helped over 150 small businesses navigate the crisis | Here’s what we’ve learned
Seth Levine
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The Week 6 Slump
Seth Levine
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PPP and Women and Minority-Owned Businesses – We Need To Do More
Seth Levine
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Extending and Expanding Aid – Some Policy Ideas
Seth Levine
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What Policymakers Don’t Understand About Small Business
Seth Levine
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Settling In
Seth Levine
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SBA PPP Loans Aren’t for Everyone
Seth Levine
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We’re Not Doing Enough to Help Small Businesses
Seth Levine
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Meet your COVID-19 CFO
Seth Levine
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Investing in Downturns
Seth Levine
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Tips For Working from Home From The Foundry Network
Seth Levine
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Byron Deeter and Jason Lemkin on the State of VC and the Cloud
Nnamdi Iregbulem
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Some additional jobs resources
Seth Levine
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CO #COVID-19 Talent Network
Seth Levine
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Job hunting in the midst of a crisis
Seth Levine
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3/19/2020 Thoughts
Seth Levine
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Decision making in uncertain times
Seth Levine
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Dealing with evolving information about Covid-19
Seth Levine
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Take Decisive Action to Stem Covid-19 NOW
Seth Levine
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Social distancing vs social isolation
Seth Levine
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Pattern Matching is Dead. Long Live People Matching
Nnamdi Iregbulem
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My path to VC
Li Jin
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Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century
Eugene Wei
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Organizational Scaling
Seth Levine
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Why We Care about the Future of Food at Samsung NEXT
Bo Ren
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Polar Bears!
Seth Levine
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The Markets Are Great . . . but Venture Outcomes Haven’t Changed Much
Seth Levine
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How Well Do Founders Do in Venture-Backed Exits?
Seth Levine
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How much should you be paying your auditor?
Seth Levine
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A-B-E
Seth Levine
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10 Rules for VC Savvy Founders
Parul Singh
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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth
Bill Gurley
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Status as a Service (StaaS)
Eugene Wei
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How To Get a Job In Venture Capital
Seth Levine
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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – Board Conflict
Seth Levine
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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – The Board Meeting
Seth Levine
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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – Your Board Package
Seth Levine
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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – Before the Meeting
Seth Levine
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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting
Seth Levine
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Resilience
Seth Levine
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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?
Seth Levine
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Different vs. More
Seth Levine
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Benchmark’s Newest General Partner Chetan Puttagunta
Bill Gurley
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Invisible asymptotes
Eugene Wei
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How to Build a Better Network
Seth Levine
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Friday Fun #6 – You Had One Job
Seth Levine
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What’s The Optimal Portfolio Strategy for a Venture Fund?
Seth Levine
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You May Have Too Many VCs On Your Board
Seth Levine
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Friday Fun #5 – I have your friend’s phone
Seth Levine
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The Changing Venture Market In 3 Images
Seth Levine
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Friday Fun #4: Ordinals, Texas Style
Seth Levine
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What does it mean to be an “executive”
Seth Levine
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Friday Fun #4 – Behind the Scenes On Our Latest Video – Bored Meeting
Seth Levine
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Fun conversation on Angel podcast
Satya Patel
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Focusing on Actions, not Results
Seth Levine
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“Customer First” Healthcare
Bill Gurley
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BREAK THE INTERNET TO SAVE NET NEUTRALITY
Seth Levine
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How Startups Actually Grow
Seth Levine
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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care
Bill Gurley
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Crypto token roundup
Chris Dixon
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Benchmark’s New General Partner Sarah Tavel
Bill Gurley
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Homebrew’s 2017 Annual Meeting: Our POV from year four
Satya Patel
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Homebrew Year 3: The Path to Investment
Satya Patel
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What’s your startup’s superpower?
Satya Patel
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The two goals of startup fundraising
Satya Patel
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Keybase: bringing public-key cryptography to mainstream users
Chris Dixon
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Stack Exchange
Chris Dixon
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Skydio
Chris Dixon
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VC investment vs Gartner hype cycle
Chris Dixon
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"This business is like bird spotting"
Chris Dixon
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a16z
Chris Dixon
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Shoehorning startups into the VC model
Chris Dixon
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Revisited: big VCs investing in seed rounds
Chris Dixon
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Allocation investing and the social premium
Chris Dixon
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Best practices for raising a VC round
Chris Dixon
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Inside versus outside financings: the nightclub effect
Chris Dixon
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Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted
Chris Dixon
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Size markets using narratives, not numbers
Chris Dixon
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Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies
Chris Dixon
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Being friendly has become a competitive advantage in VC
Chris Dixon
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Does a VC’s brand matter?
Chris Dixon
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Presenting Founder Collective
Chris Dixon
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How to select your angel investors
Chris Dixon
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The most important question to ask before taking seed money
Chris Dixon
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Getting a job in venture capital
Chris Dixon
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The only college major that matters
Chris Dixon
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Which VC firm should I pitch?
Chris Dixon
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Don’t shop your term sheet
Chris Dixon
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Information is the (other) currency of venture capital
Chris Dixon
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VC’s care about the upside case, not the mean
Chris Dixon
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Pitching the VC partnership
Chris Dixon
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Options on early stage companies
Chris Dixon
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The problem with tranched VC investments
Chris Dixon
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