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Makerbot: The First "Real" Brooklyn Exit

This is going to be BIG.

I''m also excited to say that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures has already committed to funding a new product also born out of NYC Resistor. Check out this post from NYC Resistor''s blog four years ago about the launch of the very first Makerbot. Venture Capital & Technology' fuckyeahbrooklyn.

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Tech industry reacts to Adam Neumann’s a16z-backed return to real estate

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The entrepreneur, whose fall from grace has attracted global interest, just found a ladder in the form of a check from storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Andreessen Horowitz declined to comment beyond the blog post , and Flow did not respond immediately to request for comment.) The vision.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5%

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The Valuable Unsung Heroes of Startups

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VENTURE CAPITAL. And finally that brings me to obvious topic of venture capital. When I wrote about Lines, Not Dots (probably my most often quote blog post) I made it clear that “lines” go both ways. After I posted I saw the following Tweet. No exceptions.” ” Love that.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Yieldstreet raises $100M as it mulls going public via SPAC, eyes acquisitions

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Yieldstreet — which provides a platform for making alternative investments in areas like real estate, marine/shipping, legal finance, commercial loans and other opportunities that were previously only open to institutional investors — announced Tuesday that it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

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TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were based in London. At least not externally.