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The Changing Venture Landscape

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The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. We live in a hostile world and it’s now a tech-enabled hostile world.

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Why AI Won't Be the Investment Opportunity Everyone Thinks It Is

This is going to be BIG.

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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What we’re doing at Meebo is trying to socially enable websites by allowing them to immediately get not only the social graph information but to do useful stuff with it. What is the communication rhythm and dynamics with the board and in other meetings? Seth likes to get together with board members every 30 days.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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It will enable the naturally creative but geographically and socially disenfranchised to make money doing what they love – participating. One idea I’ve been searching for is a platform that enables the creation of serialized programs with audience participation. Serialized TV with Audience Participation. billion views.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me. I’m just in awe of what they’ve enabled and baffled that the media doesn’t give this more focus. Open source became a movement – a mentality. Suddenly infrastructure software was nearly free. I know I’m going on-and-on.

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Upfront Ventures Raises > $650 Million for Startups and Returns > $600 Million to LPs

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We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. In fact, I am still active on two boards where I first invested in 2009.

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Tech-enabled homebuilder Homebound raises $75M Series C led by Khosla

TechCrunch

But in 2021, Homebound expanded to Austin, Texas, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners. This is a tough category to build a business in,” Pechet said. But with a 5.5