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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed.

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Steve Case Testifies on Expanding Access to Capital Across America

Revolution

Ive been grateful to see that support firsthand throughout my careerwhether through the passage of the JOBS Act , the creation of Opportunity Zones , or, most recently, the Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs) initiative. We all know that talent is everywhere, but opportunity is often not.

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How Business Can Revitalize a Community After Crisis

Entrepreneurs' Organization

When Ryota Saito left his home in Tokyo on 11 March 2011, he expected a typical day as a Microsoft employee. From 2011 to 2013, he worked with Microsoft to distribute PCs to hard-hit areas. From Crisis, Opportunity. Out of this crisis came a new business opportunity.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Announcing nextNY Fellows: An Innovation Community Leadership Initiative

This is going to be BIG.

I am excited to announce nextNY Fellows--a program that will support four new community leaders in 2011 build on what we already have and make it better, all while building their own skills and network. Here's what they will get: - A $500 stipend for 2011 to be used on leadership development. The details of this program are below.

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VC meets the land of opportunity

TechCrunch

When Mucker launched back in 2011, our founding partners, who had left Silicon Valley for LA, set out to prove that high-growth companies can be built anywhere. When we think about the opportunity beyond Silicon Valley, we are really speaking of America. America is the opportunity and we are worthy of investment, aren’t we? “We”

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Post Mortem… literally.

This is going to be BIG.

It will still go on, but what we have now is a unique opportunity to clamor for something else besides the head of one man. I hope one day we can look back at May 1, 2011 as the day the US stopped playing cops and robbers, and finished, on a victorious note, the last nearly 100 years of fighting around the world. Education reform?

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