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The Achilles Heel of Startup Ecosystems

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Very little time and effort is spent helping professional, full time investors raise capital for venture funds. I backed that company in 2013 when it was basically a table top science project, but the key was a series of connections that could have only been possible as a full time investor.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. That didn’t make them bad – it just didn’t make them efficient at making rapid decisions of whether to fund a startup or not and the terms on which they would fund were typically not “market” for a startup company that would become venture backed one day.

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Entrepreneur’s Don’t Think Enough. Here’s What You Can Do About It …

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Board Meetings. Frankly, I think venture capital is that way, too. How do VCs break out of group think when they are shuttling from one board meeting to the next, from one conference to the other and talking with all the same people? How does the world in Los Angeles intersect differently with venture capital?

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

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Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium. However, in 2013, Stone and the others shifted their focus to individual startups.

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How to Raise First Dollars in a Difficult Market: The Venture Perspective

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Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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For those who still don’t know the origins, the Harlem Shake started as a small skit from a YouTuber named Filthy Frank (10 million views as of this writing) on January 30, 2013. It is the production angle that is most fascinating to me and the biggest unspotted trend by most venture capitalists and traditional media executives.

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Rigetti Computing goes public via SPAC merger

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Rowe Price, Bessemer Venture Partners, Franklin Templeton and In-Q-Tel. Supernova’s Michael Clifton will join the Rigetti board after the transaction closes. Supernova’s Michael Clifton will join the Rigetti board after the transaction closes. Currently, its systems scale to 80 qubits.