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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Airbnb’s availability as a marketplace and its aggregation of substantial consumer demand has actually meant certain forms of lodging have been newly built or converted into rooms for the primary purpose of listing on Airbnb.

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

When you had physical stores selling books, the bookseller would have to stock the shelves with those books most likely to sell so consumer choice was more limited. It was by definition a hits-driven business. Now as an author you can actually publish and be able to sell only a thousand books. 4 billion videos are watched daily.

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COVID-19 – Accelerating The Destruction Of Corporate Arrogance

YoungUpstarts

As a company grows, corporate leaders must become fixated on the stock price, internal politics and compliance. The winners would be the large technology platforms that aggregated and empowered these entrepreneurs — the losers would be the big, slow-moving brands. The end of corporate arrogance.

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Where would I go to invest in startups or emerging companies?

Gust

” If we’re talking about the US and you are NOT at the Accredited level ($1 million in investable assets, or $200,000 annual income), then for the moment you are actually not allowed to invest in privately held startups (emerging public companies, of course, you can buy on the stock market like everyone else.).

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

For example, if there were no S&P 500 ETFs or index mutual funds an investor could easily buy a “synthetic” equivalent by buying shares of all the S&P 500 stocks in proportion to each company’s weighting in the index.

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Building A Tech Startup: Avoiding Silicon Valley Mishaps

YoungUpstarts

If your company simply focuses on aggregating data without care for the end user’s privacy and national regulations start to exert pressure on unethical data processing your business may be doomed from the start. It could keep your startup afloat for a short while, but the long-term damage may be much worse than a cash flow problem.