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Equity: Bret Taylor has a brand new AI startup
Techcrunch
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OpenAI board member Bret Taylor has a new AI startup
Techcrunch
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This gaming startup tries to show ‘AI + crypto’ is not a fad
Techcrunch
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Why this Canadian VC strongly recommends SR&ED financing to his portfolio companies
BetaKit
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Games VC funding reaches new plateau after 72% YoY decline | PitchBook
Venture Beat
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Games corporate and VC funding falls 75% to $2.7B in 2023 | InvestGame
Venture Beat
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Metrics for a Complex Machine with Josh Clemente
a16z
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Dear SaaStr: What Surprised The Most About First Getting VC Funding?
SaaStr
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Staircase Ventures bets on Sibli as VC firm reveals first four investments
BetaKit
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How Mastodon made friends with Meta
Platformer
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20VC: The Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces, Why Rule of 40 and EBITDA Optimisation is BS, How Founders & VCs Should Approach Market Sizing and Outcome Scenario Planning and Why Europe is Failing with Vinted CEO, Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig
20VC
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Canadian VCs are less confident about 2024
BetaKit
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VCs Take Heat for China Deals…Down Rounds Up in 2023…Lightspeed in the VC Directory
Eric Newcomer
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Northleaf Capital Partners completes final close of $285-million CAD growth equity fund
BetaKit
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What’s New on VC+ in February
Visual Capitalist
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Maple VC backs Canadian-founded Dexa’s $6-million seed round
BetaKit
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Incentives in Venture Capital, Why You Should Avoid Your Competitors’ Investors, China’s Malaise, and More [link blog]
Hunter Walk
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Transitioning from Gymnast to Investor with Aly Raisman
a16z
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Deal volume in Canada’s FinTech sector fell by 50 percent in 2023
BetaKit
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Bootstrap or VC?
Y Combinator Blog
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Read Write Own: A New Era
a16z
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‘American Dynamism’: How VCs Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Defense Tech...Hot Startup Funding Rounds...Byju's Leads EdTech Rout
Eric Newcomer
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Exclusive: Basis Set Raises $185 Million Third Fund, Doubling Down on AI & Automation
Eric Newcomer
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Inovia report indicates Canadian software sector is returning to normal
BetaKit
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Crypto’s Prophet Speaks
Evan Armstrong
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University of Calgary’s “venture philanthropy fund” UCeed targets pre-seed funding gap
BetaKit
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VCs Are Leaving Their Firms But It’s The Founders They Backed Who Often Get Hurt
Hunter Walk
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Interest rates remain unchanged (for now). What does that mean for Canadian tech in 2024?
BetaKit
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Tech Stock Tear Not Helping IPOs...Juicy Financial Leaks...General Catalyst in the VC Directory
Eric Newcomer
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Sequoia, Founders Fund, USV, Elad Gil & Benchmark Top Venture Manager Survey
Eric Newcomer
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CBIV surpasses $135 million CAD in final close to back women, children-focused healthtech startups
BetaKit
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The Zone of Deployment
Evan Armstrong
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Vinod Khosla headlines CIX 2024 investment summit
BetaKit
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Climate tech VC ArcTern Ventures closes $450-million CAD Fund III from large institutions
BetaKit
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Endings and Beginnings
Seth Levine
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Climate tech VC Blue Vision Capital adds Vladimir Savic to support global ambitions
BetaKit
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Vistara Growth bets on two US-based supply chain software companies
BetaKit
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AGF Private Capital acquires majority stake in Kensington Capital Partners for $45 million
BetaKit
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The biggest tech questions of 2024
BetaKit
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“It takes a year to find great executives so you must always look down the field.” Proof’s Pat Kinsel on why he believes a VCs most critical task is to make sure the WRONG person doesn’t get hired into a startup.
Hunter Walk
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Apple’s Virtual Reality Headset Arrives Amid CES Buzz...Khosla Ventures in the Spotlight...Fewer Startups Landing Seed Funding
Eric Newcomer
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The VC Funding Party Is Over
Wired
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Empire AI
Fred Wilson
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Read Write Own
Fred Wilson
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Danielle Gifford on expanding Canada’s investor funnel
BetaKit
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What Will Happen In 2024
Fred Wilson
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What Happened In 2023
Fred Wilson
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what we’re reading, watching, recommending - holiday special
web3 weekly
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Should You Fire This Newsletter? 2023 Edition
Evan Armstrong
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Ask Mario: AI vs. NFTs, looking foolish, and VC lessons
Mario Gabriele
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Narratize Closes $2M Seed Round to Accelerate Innovation Through the Power of Story
Alex Kantrowitz
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Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough.
Evan Armstrong
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How can founders get value from their VCs?
Mario Gabriele
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Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait on how AI is changing human resources and weaning his company off venture funding via private equity
Hunter Walk
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The Best Venture Firm You’ve Never Heard Of
Mario Gabriele
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The Case Against Sam Altman
Evan Armstrong
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Ask Mario: The VC bubble, the value of specialization, and business case studies.
Mario Gabriele
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American Enterprise is In Danger from Recent Court Ruling
Seth Levine
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Open Office Hours at NYC Tech Week
Fred Wilson
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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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Startups Fail All The Time, But Many Could Fail Better By Thinking Beyond the VCs and Founders
Hunter Walk
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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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Qubit: David Clark (VenCap) on VC Power Law
Marcelino Pantoja
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How Investors Kill Companies
Eric Jorgenson
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How to Build an Irresistible Product for VC Investors
Nir Eyal
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Qubit: JP Morgan Alternatives Guide Q2 2023
Marcelino Pantoja
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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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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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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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Leadership during a crisis
Elizabeth Yin
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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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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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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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Homebrew Forever: Same Mission, Our Capital
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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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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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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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care
Bill Gurley
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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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Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
Paul Graham
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The Venture Capital Squeeze
Paul Graham
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A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
Paul Graham
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