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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This article originally ran on PEHub. Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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If you install it on your website then users can copy text from your website (by doing control-C and copying a sentence or paragraph) and when they share it with others via email it provides a link back to the whole article. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital VC Industry. It’s a freakin’ cool feature.

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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

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Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

This is a company that, according to the article, got term sheets from half of the VCs that expressed interest in the company. On top of that, the article comes with a chart--this chart to the left entited "Fewer Bets". Not a bad close rate, I'd say--and a pretty great pay day. Did I mention it only took the founder a month?

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

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This is a riveting read and tale of ego, bad business practice and shady ethical behavior – if the article is even 50% true. We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here.

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Ripe For Disruption: The Asset Management Business

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Joe Reilly , CEO of Circulus Group and a longtime contributor to Family Wealth Report , interviewed me to share views on disruption in asset management, my research into the field, and where the industry needs to be headed. Another said, “I think it’s remnant inventory…the Craigslist of venture capital. Teten: Two reasons.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. So usually the first money comes locally. Maker Studios. Savings.com.