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How Alternative Proteins Can Win Consumers Over

Revolution

Last year, the White House published a blog post attributing half of the price increases at the grocery store to beef, pork, and poultry. Educating Consumers on the Health and Moral Imperative There is a significant opportunity to increase consumer education in this category. based venture capital fund.

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

Gust

According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t. But for some strange reason they make you file your progress on fund raising, which is the widely picked up by the press. So it is now publicly known that we have closed $150 million in our 4th fund. Would they blame me?

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. By fund II (2007) he was able to raise $15 million (if you watch the video you’ll hear an interesting story of how he did this) and he had a proper fund. I think they were all brand new or just forming.

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What I’ve Learned from Fred Wilson

Both Sides of the Table

” This clip is just 2 minutes: I agree. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. I have been blogging for years – even before BothSidesofTheTable.

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Some Advice Before You Hit the Fund Raising Trail

Both Sides of the Table

Fund raising. But it’s critical for your business, for you as a leader and people who excel at fund raising have an extreme advantage over those who do not. As a VC I also have to fund raise every three years and these posts 100% apply to VCs raising money, too. It definitely has a “d” in it, as in it’s really not fun, raising.

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Flexible VC: A new model for startups targeting profitability

TechCrunch

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. Where else can fast-growing companies get funding? A new category of investors has emerged offering a hybrid between VC and revenue-based investment (RBI), which we call “flexible VC.”

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Vietnamese investment app Infina lands $2M seed round

TechCrunch

In Southeast Asia, startups in this space that have raised funding over the past few months include Ajaib , Bibit and Stashaway —and that’s just a (very) partial list. Now Infina , which calls itself the “Robinhood of Vietnam,” is announcing an oversubscribed $2 million seed round. The app’s interface and content is geared toward them.

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