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Consumer investment fatigue

Tomasz Tunguz

Many of the promising marketing and media innovations of the past six years, daily deals, subscription ecommerce, social gaming and social media, have been struggling. It depends on the incumbents successfully developing new revenue models that can be either syndicated to or replicated by new startups. Who knows?

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

TechCrunch

I began to realize that venture capital is a bit of a social game — and I was about to play it for two years. It doesn’t need to be a zero-sum game where more people of color will push out the incumbents. In the traditional Silicon Valley way, I would take one introduction and turn it into another.