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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

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But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. It’s in our national interests to make becoming an entrepreneur as egalitarian as possible. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility. China, not the U.S.,

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.”

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. I have called it a “mug’s game&# and I mostly try to avoid it. Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Mark: Apple is like China, they have introduced an incredibly amount of innovation to the market. They’ve forced the entire industry to innovate and change. They have been successful simply for pushing the telecom companies, Microsoft, and Google to innovate. Social currency. WoW and social gaming addiction.