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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Funding Problem.

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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

This is going to be BIG.

Personally, I think it would be pretty awesome if all of the people who subscribe to my weekly newsletter could put $2000 towards supporting the early stage tech ecosystem in NYC. At least startups have accelerators, incubators, etc. scratches bald head]. The investors for small funds are much more random and hidden.

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How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years

Y Combinator

The only model of institutional seed funding was the “business incubator” model, where VC firms would fund well-connected founders they knew and incubate them in their office. They have an initial idea and put together a team of favored executives, often from their pool of entrepreneurs-in-residence, to run it.

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Do you agree with “Fail fast?”

Berkonomics

A personal story of failing fast My favorite story of a fast failure was of a technology incubator started in the year 2000 with optimistic money from several angel investors, including me. He volunteered to close the incubator, and he returned 96% of our investments to all of us angel investors. Ragged edges all four sides.”

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Fail fast!

Berkonomics

And if the vision of the entrepreneur is flawed, or the product impossible to create within cost and time expectations, or the demand impossible to quantify, or revenues never close to plan, then it is time to rethink the plan and product. There should be no shame to the entrepreneur in admitting such a failure.

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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

TechCrunch

million on average, the largest payout to employees in Israeli high tech at the time, and the exit created a pool of new entrepreneurs and angel investors. Over the last decade, startup funding for Israeli entrepreneurs increased by 400%. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2 So how are they doing?

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What would you do if told to “fail fast?”

Berkonomics

My favorite story of a fast failure was of a technology incubator started in the year 2000 with optimistic money from several angel investors, including me. He volunteered to close the incubator and he returned 96% of our investments to all of us angel investors. Is it the end of your entrepreneurial world to fail quickly?