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The Broken VC Model: Suggestions for a Hollywood Ending

The Broken VC Model: Suggestions for a Hollywood Ending

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This just in: Twitter Co-Founder Ev Williams Believes All Startup Advice Is Wrong (Yet it is valuable anyway).

“Why is it wrong?…Deep down we know we can’t possibly apply everything we read and often even if we could, we shouldn’t.”

Ditto to investors. We often hear that investors look for newcos focused on big markets (fair enough – everyone wants a unicorn/substantial ROI); were founded by successful serial entrepreneurs (again, fair enough: less handholding; potentially lower risk/known entity). Still, again, they can’t possibly apply everything they hear or read and even if they could, they shouldn’t. Which may contribute to why the VC model is broken. Read More...

The Investment Landscape in the New For-Now

The Investment Landscape in the New For-Now

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It’s an odd time in the industry, to put it mildly. World economies have certainly been challenged (again, to put it mildly). Still, Crunchbase reported that “Despite the turmoil of an ongoing pandemic, global venture funding for the second quarter of 2020 was not as dire as we expected, but it was down from previous years.” Specifically, it was down 7% from the first half of 2019.

According to CNBC the First half of 2020 sees 30% drop in startup deals; seed funding falls 40%. The big winners in overall funding: fintech, health tech and long-time also-ran edtech.

We live in strange times, again to put it very mildly. After all, Meditation app Meditopia raised $15m funding round. “Mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower reckons that the top 10 meditation apps generated $195m of user spending in 2019 – and that was before a global pandemic created a new spike in their popularity.” Read More...