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What Everyone Should Take Away from Twitter’s 8% Staff Reductions

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I spoke at Michael Kim’s excellent annual Cendana VC/LP conference today. You can read it in VCs discussions about hedge fund managers, activist investors or the need to have dual-share voting structures. Today I called it, “our own little VC led, portfolio-by-portfolio company version of RIP Good Times from 7 years ago.”

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

TechCrunch

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans.

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Never Hire Job Hoppers. Never. They Make Terrible Employees

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This is part of my startup advice series. It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. Why do job hoppers make such bad employees at startups? -. You’re a startup founder. And good VC’s feel the same way. I’m sure of that.

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What I wish I’d known about venture capital when I was a founder

TechCrunch

Founders who manage to raise more VC funds end up having a greater value stake in their company when the time comes to IPO, according to statistical research. The learning curve is steep; you’re not just studying VC as an industry, but the individual investors themselves. But the opposite is also true.

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How May Ph.D. Startup Founders Build for the Long term?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Given that only 19% of 2008/2010 doctoral graduates worked outside of research/education according to UK statistics , 14% of PhDs going into entrepreneurship looks impressive. Investments in European deep tech grew in absolute numbers, however during 2015–2020 it remained between 20–26% of all VC investments. How May Ph.D.

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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history.

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One of Nigeria’s high profile angel investors is launching a fund for African startups

TechCrunch

Soyombo is one of the few founder-cum-investors on the continent, despite his company not being the traditional VC-backed startup the world has become accustomed to. Non-traditional startup founder to an angel investor. Some of its biggest clients include OEMs like Oracle.

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