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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

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I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. And if you want my presentation on the things I Effed Up at my first startup you can view or download the short PPT by clicking that link on Docstoc. 49:30 Steve: When’s the last time venture capital actually led an innovation?

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture.

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Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99?

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What is the mix of revenue between ads, subscriptions, digital downloads & ecommerce. In 2005 they realized that this business was going to evaporate over night with the introduction of YouTube. They’ve worked with a few small companies like Zynga, Playdom, GroupOn and TopSpin Media. It changed everything.

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Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment

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Upon thoroughly analyzing the data, we’ve been able to identify the total number of investment firms and amount of capital that comprise the RBI industry, the specific verticals and business models that are most actively leveraging RBI, and the typical profile of companies that access this form of capital.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital.