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What’s Happening Today That No One Sees?

Feld Thoughts

So, the lens of 2005 (history) and 2025 (future) is the one I’m currently enjoying. The Big Short is picking up major steam in 2005. ” When I go back a decade, we were just making the decision not to raise another Mobius Venture Capital fund. Venture Capital and entrepreneurship was dramatically out of favor.

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TinySeed Applications Open January 18th

Software By Rob

“YCombinator for Non-Unicorns” In 2005 YCombinator pioneered the concept of a startup accelerator, running their first batch of 8 companies through a 3-month mentorship program and providing them with $6,000n in funding (where n = the number of founders). 3: We Provide World-Class Mentorship.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA. Advertising clients include: Sony, Microsoft, NBC, and Clicker.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

In this conversation Eren and I talked about his journey from a small town in Turkey to founding the education startup Udemy, also quite successful, to Carbon Health and eventually Carbon Health's vaccination efforts. Here's my conversation with Eren Bali. My answer's really it isn't, that is, since 2005, a lot has changed.