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How I lost $10 million by doing something stupid
The inside story of bootstrapped todo app Flow competing in a VC-funded world. | learn more
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Chicago leads among heartland cities attracting VC
“America’s Mighty Middle Report, published by Crunchbase and Omaha-based Dundee Venture Capital, shows that over the last decade, Chicago leads the region’s VC funding at $15.2 billion, followed by Austin at $11.8 billion and Denver at $10.5 billion.” | learn more
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A stats-based look behind the venture capital curtain.
Eric Feng from Kleiner Perkins shares interesting data and graphs about how the VC business has changed over the past 15 years. | learn more
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A VC signed an investment deal in virtual reality.
“Arthur Technologies closed its funding deal with investment group Boost VC inside virtual reality, even signing the deal inside its collaboration platform.” | learn more
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VC math.
Investor Homan Yuen writes about the economics of venture capital funds, making the case for why most require $1B+ exits to make their funds work. This is an easy-to-understand overview of the subject. |learn more
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VCs are active in real estate tech market.
PitchBook has an interesting infographic highlighting all sorts of stats about real estate tech. | learn more
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How to value cryptoassets.
For all the talk I’ve heard about the value of a bitcoin or other crypto token, little of it has been rooted in economics. Enter Chris Burniske of Placeholder VC who provides a rational theory of economic value for cryptoassets. […]
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Spice VC uses blockchain to solve fund liquidity problem.
Investors in VC funds (and other private equity funds) have to lock up their cash for a long time, trading liquidity for potentially higher returns than public markets. Spice VC is purported to be the first to address this by […]
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How one VC thinks about blockchain.
This excellent memo from NYC’s Notation Capital provides some worthy thoughts about how to capture value from blockchain. The memo was originally written for internal use of their limited partners. | learn more
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A computer’s startup picks 8 years ago were better than most VCs.
“…had the 50 companies been a VC portfolio, it would have been the second-best-performing fund of all time. Only one fund has ever chosen better, which did most of its investments in the late 1990s and rode the dotcom bubble […]