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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. Some quick highlights include: The Role of a Seed Stage VC.

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

Both Sides of the Table

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts. I think Dave has blogging Tourettes Syndrome when he hears the word VC. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

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Best Countries in Asia-Pacific for Startups

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The original article appeared on ValueChampion’s blog here. . We used publicly available data to score countries based on their rank across these categories. Given these metrics, the country is an excellent place for individuals to start and grow businesses. Where does India rank?

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Mobile gaming startup Homa Games raises $50 million

TechCrunch

It lets them track and improve the most important metrics of the industry — cost of acquisition, retention and session times. Daniel and Oliver don’t just bring a vision but more importantly, a killer execution that is helping them define and build an entirely new category within gaming,” Northzone’s Pär-Jörgen Pärson said in a statement.

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The Best Countries in Europe for Startups—and Why

Entrepreneurs' Organization

While they might not be the best in any one category, they generally offer an environment that is amenable to startups in terms of business costs, business climate, labour quality and strength of the economy. Despite not winning any individual category, Germany topped the charts as the overall best country in Europe for startups.

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Structured vs. unstructured data: Key differences, use cases, and examples

The Zapier Blog

Whether it's the names of individuals, categories of products, or song titles, as long as the information is organized within a framework, it's structured data. Descriptive text: Think names (of people, products, companies), categories, or titles of works. Use unstructured data when you need to.

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Flexible VC: A new model for startups targeting profitability

TechCrunch

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. A new category of investors has emerged offering a hybrid between VC and revenue-based investment (RBI), which we call “flexible VC.” We detail below the major categories of VC: Funder category.

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