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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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One of things I’ve loved the most about doing now 11 weeks of This Week in VC is a chance to have an hour-long recorded conversation with investors. And in my interviews with many VCs I feel that people can watch these and get to know the VC’s as human beings a bit better. So how did Mike get into VC?

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

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They do around 7% of the total VC-backed deals in the US per year or just under 40 deals / year on average (present year excluded!). Where I add commentary from myself or my fellow VC colleagues from our discussion after Jamie left I’ll put in red. 2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade. per year.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. if you want to download the deck it’s here on SlideShare ) Why Did The Seed Market Emerge in the First Place? Why Has Seed Investing Declined?

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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?

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Growing too slowly is particularly dangerous in a business with network effects, which the best startups usually have to some degree.” ” This is a frequent theme of mine when asked to speak to audience about the VC industry. Fooling us into downloading an app to watch a video and afterward feeling duped.

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Future of TV: The Quick Version

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Yes, it’s lower quality than network, primetime television. But many network shows cost up to $100,000 PER MINUTE to produce. And where GRP Partners , the VC firm in which I’m a partner, is based. You can download it, too. Note that the logo of YouTube used to say, “Broadcast Yourself.”

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

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It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. Telegram announced their ICO and raised over $1B from some of the best VC firms. VC funds invested directly in MakerDao’s Dai stable coin. 1/ Social Network Interference.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. More on that later.

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