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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) wherein all network participants can have separate copies of the entire record of transactions on the network. Quoting from their website “22 additional global banks join the SWIFT gpi blockchain proof of concept.” Underwriting.

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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

Both Sides of the Table

But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. GLOBAL seems here to stay unless something stupid Trump’s it. Global “WARMING” But “global” isn’t the only story, warning is at least half of the equation.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Part of the magic of revenue-based financing is how historical performance and strong, achievable financial projections are ultimately the backbone of how RBI/RBF investment decisions are made.” Early liquidity. Short track record.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? Global and Local. and seen the rise of absolute juggernauts with deeply global ambitions such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi. These questions have been rattling around my brain.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

By the by, women donors, I recommend diversifying some of your capital distributions to reap that ROI to keep doing good… (+ this is a whole ‘nother blog post…) Undeterred. Do you want someone already making $12–17/hour watching your kid to make less (so a LP can make their returns…)? We boot-strapped some more. We side-hustled.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. If there is a resolution to this issue it will need to be simplified and philosophical with a pan global, United Nations style approach. The top down era of one size fits all. And now it is over.

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