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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

When I came out of college LA Law was one of the most popular shows on TV and made being a lawyer sexy, so most of my peers made that career choice. They are frustrated by the past decade of subpar returns for the sector. The most recent report to weigh in on the troubles of the industry was produced by the esteemed Kauffman Foundation.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded. We were unprepared. I acknowledge it was a mistake.

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Centbee raises $1m in pre-Series A funding round led by Ayre Ventures

AsiaTechDaily

Unlike other blockchains, BSV is focused on utility, not speculation, and Centbee is working hard to further Bitcoin’s adoption as a true peer-to-peer electronic cash system,” Ayre said. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Remember Me. No account yet?

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2 Hours in Positano that Changed My Life

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Bringing my wife Lisa into the hunt, we peer over and on a terrace below us is a cobbler, handcrafting sandals out of a small box of tools and beads. The original version of this article appeared on Aaron’s LinkedIn blog. Aaron graduated from EO Accelerator and went on to become an EO member in 2011. ” She knew.

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For tech firms, the risk of not preparing for leadership changes is huge

TechCrunch

Yet we found that tech execs appear just as unprepared for C-suite transitions as their peers in other sectors. Tech firms generally are younger than other companies of a similar size, which partly explains why the median age of S&P 500 companies plunged to 33 years in 2018 from 85 years in 2000, according to McKinsey & Co.

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Incredibuild gets $140M to speed up games and other software development with distributed processing tech

TechCrunch

Nor is distributed computing a new concept: it’s the basis of a lot of peer-to-peer architectures such as those devised early on by the likes of BitTorrent, and it’s equally something that has been taken up by the blockchain community. 6 investors on 2021’s mobile gaming trends and opportunities.

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Incredibuild powers up with $35M to boost its distributed, faster approach to games and software development

TechCrunch

If it sounds odd that a Series B would be so much smaller than the Series A, that’s in part because that previous round was a mix of debt and equity: the company had raised very little since being founded in 2000 and was profitable. This all-equity round is being led by Hiro Capital, with past backer Insight Partners also participating.