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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

The reality is that seed investing as a strategy was not a new thing back in 2011, and one could point to multiple prior waves where this sort of investing just didn’t work. When we started in 2011, YC was in its awkward growth/teenage years as they were expanding the classes pretty aggressively. That year, they invested in Segment.

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6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011

mashable.com

World Featured in US & World Featured: Facebook Year End 2011 Awards. 6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011. December 28, 2011 by Sarah Kessler. As the innovation engines of the economy, what startups figured out in 2011 will likely appear on other sectors’ trend lists in 2012. Year End 2011.

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Making Good Decisions Still Means You're Sometimes Wrong.

Agile VC

December 13, 2011. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

In 2011 Facebook paid out $1.4 Facebook generated a little less than $600M in direct revenue from its “platform” in 2011 and we can infer Apple generated something like $800M – $1B (see note 1). Apple generated nearly $130B in revenue in 2011. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. June 5, 2012.

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

NextView originally invested in the company’s seed round in the spring of 2011 and we again participated in this latest round along with Atlas Venture. All of us at NextView are psyched to support the company into it’s next phases of growth along with the rest of the investor syndicate. million times. Author howerl.

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5 Free Platforms Entrepreneurs Should Be Using To Manage And Streamline Their Business

YoungUpstarts

Scott pioneered many of the most utilized concepts in online media including opt-in data collection, email to postal data appending, affiliate marketing, web syndication, internet reality shows and internet pay per view.

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

September 15, 2011. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. How diffferent 2H 2011 looks. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How To Think About The Future. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. VCs dreamt of liquidty.

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