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The Death of a Venture Fund
The Changing Venture Landscape. The World Around Us Is Being Disrupted… | by Mark Suster | Sep, 2021 | Both Sides of the Table
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There are some phenomenal products in some of the companies that were overfunded and are haunted by past decisions. The valuations at which these companies raised capital set them on the wrong path - a path that fails to attract and reward critical talent, a path that incentivizes excess expenditure for growth at the expense of structuring a busine... See more
Scott Belsky • The Great Sobriety for Venture Investing, Where To Start with AI, & Undeniable Data
His firm, TVI, had funded Microsoft, Compaq, and other notable technology companies, but it was not these that McMurtry wished to talk about. Rather, he wanted to talk about the companies that did not succeed. He recalled that in the mid-1970s, having been in the business a number of years, he had become depressed because “out of ten start-ups, we
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