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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

Thursday, January 27, 2011. I strongly believe (at least for very early stage technology ventures) that you will get diminishing returns and arguably negative returns once you get past an initial threshold of team, product, market and financial diligence. Instead, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies.

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More Cash for Entrepreneurs, Crowdfunding, and Indiegogo

David Teten

As Steve Case has said, it’s ridiculous that anyone can gamble and be guaranteed to lose money, but there are strict regulations around who can invest in early-stage private companies and earn (in some cases) a 27% IRR on their capital. *. The Entrepreneurs Access to Capital Act helps to redress this.

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Fake it Til You (Have To) Make it

Austin Startup

As he told Business Insider (2011), he “ went to a couple of stores, took some pictures of the shoes, made a website, put them up and told the shoe store, if I sell anything, I’ll come here and pay full price. ” Could you manually create travel policies before coding up an algorithm (that’s what yours truly is doing) to do it automatically?

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ProfessorVC: Would a Dart Board Provide better VC Returns?

Professor VC

Rather than going through their networks or targeting specific sectors for deal flow, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. ► 2011. (7). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

Computer Motion was named after a clever software algorithm that allowed primitive (circa 1990) computer processors to render graphics in 3-D. Unfortunately, we never made a dime from the 3-D algorithm. John Greathouse is a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses.

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