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How VC Fundraising Favors White Men

This is going to be BIG.

This will be the post where I dangerously attempt to walk the minefield of a white male VC opining on the topic. Clearly he assumed that he was using some kind of username, and that it was a gang reference of some sort--like, "Young Blood" as in the bloods and the crips or something to that affect. Do they have a Code of Conduct?

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Daily Crunch: Plaid product updates signal push to ‘own’ more of the account funding process

TechCrunch

-based company said it was able to unlock Tesla doors by hacking into the Bluetooth Low Energy technology used by Tesla to unlock and operate the car via its app or key fob. It’s not just Tesla — anyone using this type of technology is vulnerable, the company said. Startups and VC. Heinrich Gröller, partner, Speedinvest.

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The gig economy, cannabis and car data are tech-election winners in 2020

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Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. The US is settling in for some new form of national gridlock, but state and local propositions are busy defining how technology businesses will be allowed to work (legally) in the US. Subscribe here.

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Time Diversity In VC Portfolios

Haystack

From what I’ve gathered from LPs and VC mentors, in previous eras, the initial deployment period of a VC fund (not including reserves for follow-ons, etc.) used to be around 5 years. A topic that’s been on my mind a lot in 2019 is “time diversity” in venture capital funds. I know of one.

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Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

TechCrunch

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” The VCs who founders love the most.

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Diamond Age picks up $50M to lay the foundation for the future of houses built by robots

TechCrunch

The side-effect of adding a slice of robotics to the mix is that homes that used to take nine months to build can now be instantiated into existence in a month or so. Seed investors Alpaca VC, Dolby Family Ventures, Timber Grove Ventures and Gaingels all invested above their pro-rata and are joined by Signia Venture Partners.

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Getting Your Head in the Game for Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

The perverse nature of raising capital is that “no’s” almost always precede “yeses” because it’s very easy for a VC to tell you that you’re not a good fit without doing any real work to evaluate your company so you hear “no” far before others start doing more work. The best VCs follow up but then so, too, to the best entrepreneurs.

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