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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

TechCrunch

But it’s not your average French VC fund as it’s going to be an evergreen fund focused on building a better world. If you’re not familiar with Marie Ekeland, she used to be an investor at French VC firm Elaia. More recently, she co-founded Daphni , her own VC firm. The idea is that there shouldn’t be any time frame pressure.

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The drop off rate depends on each fund’s specific selection and rejection criteria, brand, team size, deal flow quality, volume, and the stage in a VC fund’s life cycle. The standard venture funnel. Or are they just going through the motions to please a VC? See the public memos by Bessemer Venture Partners.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

Philipp Stauffer, partner, FYRFLY Venture Partners. Lucian Wagner, partner, Privilège Ventures. Maximilian Spelmeyer , partner, SIX Fintech Ventures. Olaf Hannemann, partner, CV VC AG. Jasmin Heimann, partner, Ringier Digital Ventures. Claude Donzé , partner, Tomahawk.VC. Andreas Iten , partner, F10.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

The simple fact of the matter is that most startups seeking angel or vc capital just don’t receive it—and that’s just anywhere. It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. I was there, too.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

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Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies.

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The Unified Theory of Food Investing for Tech VCs

This is going to be BIG.

One of the aspects of running a venture fund that I am most excited about is turning over rocks that other VCs might not. I'm less likely to get excited about the next big photo sharing app coming out of YC, and more into going "where no VC has gone before.". Whatever I do, it needs to be in big enough spaces. Absolutely.

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