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Posts Tagged ‘ venture capital ’

Venture Fundraising in Four Graphs

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In Defense of Lifestyle

You don’t have a company. You have a job. - Yale prof and Honest Tea founder Barry Nalebuff, to me, September 2006 I was in college at the time, running a small antique furniture reseller called Aloysius Properties on the side. Aloysius was a fun business. We realized that Ivy League schools, especially our own [ READ MORE ]

Is Tumblr the new 4chan?

I’m not sure anyone who reads Startup Adventures has been paying attention to the sad story of Jessi Slaughter, 4chan’s latest tween meme-toy, but you can read about it on KnowYourMeme here or ED here (NSFW). It’s a fascinating story about the fluidity and power of the anonymous web, but a couple points in the [ READ MORE ]

Why They Don’t Answer Your Emails

Occasionally, people don’t answer my emails. Realizing that this is a fact of life — and an inevitable part of being an entrepreneur — has been one of the toughest things to wrap my mind around. When I was getting started, it was an insult. I came straight from a world (college) where people received [ READ MORE ]

Incentives and Carried Interest

The House recently passed a bill to tax carried interest at the higher income tax – rather than the lower capital gains – rates. This has generated considerable consternation and debate in the venture world and somehow led to Chris Dixon asking Jim Robinson to go fuck himself [1]. In brief, taxing carried interest – [ READ MORE ]

Sources of Capital, by Google Hits

Search: “Funded by {x}” {x} = Venture Capital 45,600 hits {x} = Private Equity 34,500 hits {x} = Friends 24,400 hits {x} = Family 19,900 hits {x} = Angels OR Angel Investors 13,900 hits {x} = the Devil 4,020,000 hits Protip: Startup capital can be hard to come by. VCs, angels, friends and family and [ READ MORE ]

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