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How the New York City innovation community can still lose (and what you can do about it)

This is going to be BIG.

But I am also someone who is very colored by my past experience of seeing the venture implosion after the first bubble and walking through the fundraising tumbleweed of late 2008. Here's how you can prevent this NYC renaisannce from being a forest fire: Fail fast.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

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This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. Entrada Ventures? —?that He writes “Half of all venture funds outperform the stock market which is the benchmark most institutions measure VC funds against.”

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. They controlled distribution to the masses. Enter Facebook.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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I had an hour to interview Mike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures. This lasted from about 2001-2004. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Venture Financings we Discussed. Competitors: Google.

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Why venture capitalists are investing in international startups

David Teten VC

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Venture capitalists like us are investing in three overlapping models of international startups: Companies founded overseas. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Companies founded by immigrants.

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5 questions emerging managers should ask before selecting LPs

TechCrunch

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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Restrictions on acquisitions would stifle the US startup ecosystem, not rein in big tech

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Jeff Farrah is the general counsel of the National Venture Capital Association. The knock-on effect of these reforms for young companies and their venture investors is unclear. But as Patricia Nakache of Trinity Ventures said in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee: “[Acquisitions have] been commonplace in the U.S.