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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC.

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Every year I try to answer the question of “what has changed in the Venture Capital industry” and this year my colleague Chang Xu and I took a deep dive through the data and called many of our peers for confirmation. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. More on that later.

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South African payments gateway Ozow raises $48M Series B led by Tencent

TechCrunch

Founder and CEO Thomas Pays started Ozow in 2014 to drive financial inclusion through open banking. What we wanted to address was a central platform that could basically provide solutions to e-commerce, point of sale, e-billing and peer to peer payment.”. Ozow is one such player.

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SwipeRx lands $27M from MDI and Gates Foundation to digitize the pharma industry in Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

Pharmacies in Southeast Asia were largely fragmented, mom-and-pop shops operating in silos when the company — originally known as mClinica — was incorporated in Singapore in 2014. Meralli insists that SwipeRx is now the largest regional provider of online accredited education for pharmacy professionals, in fact.).

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25 Sources For Funding Minority Entrepreneurs

Smart Hustle Magazine

However, do note that even BEYOND FUNDING – what’s MOST important is that you build a business that has the right team, solves the right problem, for the right customer base. You do NOT have to have funding to start a business but you can definitely bootstrap it. If you have a suggestion to add to the list, just let me know. per month.

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Zingtree turns complex customer service processes into clear action plans

TechCrunch

Zingtree was founded in 2014 to make business information actionable for teams so that agents could quickly make decisions during complex service calls. Contact center agents now working at home could no longer rely on in-person subject matter experts, managers or experienced peers.

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Benchmarking DataDog's S-1: How 7 Key Metrics Stack up

Tomasz Tunguz

This has more to do with the trend that current IPOs tend to be around $200M and New Relic went public in 2014, when the median revenue at IPO was closer to $100M. And as for the comparison to AppD… DataDog is effectively profitable compared to its peers, who were at about -65% net income margin. DataDog is no exception.