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Venture Capital Q&A Session

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We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital.

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What Everyone Should Take Away from Twitter’s 8% Staff Reductions

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One of the points I tried to make is that as venture capital investors as an industry we seem to have a healthy disdain for public market investors. We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. Others will follow.

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What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

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There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. You can’t average your way into VC success – Dave McClure talks with such disdain about venture capitalists that I think he misses the broader point. Answer: Not much. It’s a shame.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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Exactly the opposite of what a rational investment strategy would advise. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Twitter had a fundamentally flawed strategy from the beginning. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital.

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How Venture Funding For Early-Stage Startups Will Change During the COVID-19 Crisis

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Martino outlined essentially two types of outcomes for this financial crisis from a historical perspective: “In 2001-2003, there was a depression in Silicon Valley. This crisis comes on the heels of an abnormal time for venture capital. VCs are going to be asking founders about their “post-corona strategy.”

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Taking advantage of Latin America’s market downturn

TechCrunch

Jennifer Queen is the founder of Pina , a PR firm focused on startups and venture capital firms. Latin American venture capital and growth investments through 2018 had averaged less than $2 billion per year. With quality growth companies starved for capital, the few investors active in the region were making a killing.