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

Both Sides of the Table

Sellers can lower transaction fees by aggregating purchases into fewer transactions, while also providing buyers with an attractive alternative payment method. Swipely can even append transaction data with relevant information such as menus or store catalogs.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? “At some point, an entrepreneur begins to exhaust her network, and her network’s network, and the incremental hours devoted to fundraising will begin to yield less capital raised than the previous.”

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What Future for Accelerators?

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I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. They have aggregated talent into similar locations to learn from each other and made it easier for high-profile mentors to meet many companies at once. We had a specific goal in mind.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% Translation?