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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

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Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. building companies in-house) or incubator (e.g.,

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VCs at Freestyle, Plexo Capital and Sequoia join Startup Battlefield judges

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We have an outstanding cohort of VCs ready to hear their pitches and follow up with tough Q&As — and we’re thrilled to add three more to the slate. Did you miss the other Startup Battlefield VC judges? In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. Did you know?

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of audiovisual startup Chroma

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An early Google employee, Stone worked on the Blogger team after its acquisition, ahead of helping co-found Twitter in 2006. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium. He remained with Twitter for a number of years as the company grew to become adopted by millions of users worldwide. million in seed funding (5.1

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Daily Crunch: Property management startup Doorstead raises $21.5M Series B

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After they tracked uninvested capital by year going back to 2006, the pair found that “a crisis within the investment landscape has often been followed by years of systematic outperformance of returns, and history has a way of repeating itself.” Jacquelyn has more.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. Current round: $4. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Total raised: $6.0mm. See: TechCrunch. Total raised: $10.5mm. See: TechCrunch.

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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

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It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages. It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

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Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. by February 2006).