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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? By definition?—?I’m On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational.

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The Thin Skin of the Venture Capital Market

This is going to be BIG.

I think it''s likely that it will unfocus the company and what it definitely does is eliminate the possibility of exiting for anything less than two and a half billion dollars. The fact is, it''s just not cool to criticize the investing side of the venture capital market. But can''t I disagree with him on an investment?

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Why AI Won't Be the Investment Opportunity Everyone Thinks It Is

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The venture asset class seems to have already decided that AI is the next great investment opportunity, but I’m not so sure it’s going to disrupt business and create the across-the-board wealth that has been predicted. I got to see all of the top VCs pitching their funds.

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Ten Realities of Taking Venture Capital Money

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If you take venture capital money. 2) You are signing up to sell the company one day--to another company or to the public market, but definitely to someone. 3) You will almost certainly take more venture capital money after that. If you take venture capital money. Venture Capital & Technology'

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Capital is a commodity

TechCrunch

Charlie Graham-Brown is the partner and Chief Investments Officer of Seedstars , a Swiss-based group with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. He leads the group’s venture capital fund, Seedstars International, which invests in seed-stage startups across emerging markets.

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If you’ve raised venture capital, you have to pay yourself

TechCrunch

The investor argued that the founders were “working for equity,” and that his investment shouldn’t go to the founding team. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works One caveat: That doesn’t mean founders should pay themselves way above market rates.

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How Chicago is changing who raises early-stage venture capital

TechCrunch

For those of us who cover the venture capital industry, two narratives are ubiquitous: There’s the story of how much capital has been invested of late; you’ve seen the data — 2020 and 2021 set nearly every record around the world for private-market investment. Definitely. And worth doing?