As any entrepreneur or VC will tell you, start-ups live or die by the talent they can attract.
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It remains to be seen whether these efforts and innovations will be enough to create new paths for successful investments in hardware-only business models or whether VC investments in physical products in the IT and Energy arena will have limited interest for the foreseeable future.
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Consumers: Anyone deeply ingrained in the TechCrunch scene is the first to download a cool new app, stand in line for hours to get the newest iPhone, or pass along VC jokes with their friends from Buzzfeed.
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We tested it out and had no problems with download speed or playback of the VC-1 and h.264 encoded files, but we're not sure if they're ready to rival Youtube just yet.
Our analysis yielded thousands of data points and unearthed two critically important trends that we think are widely misunderstood or unknown by the VC ecosystem, the limited partners in the asset class, and the media that covers it.
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Developing VC funds to promote development in Africa or in Southeast Asia would go a long way toward helping the business talent in those regions develop ideas and create sustainable jobs.
Five years ago, the major VC firms were all bases in Silicon Valley or Boston.
The entries are as varied as the names we bestow: toilet, toilette, klo (in Germany), water closet, WC (and the Gallic counterparts double-v c or, in this impatient age, just VC).
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Are they stable and profitable, or are they losing money and propped up by VC funding that might go away?
Get introduced via one of the social networks, or a professional organization, before you approach a VC with a business proposal.
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Increase the taxation on life science VC firms, and you are not likely to have the next Genentech or Amgen, which have led the world in biotech.
It has that much of smartphone units, but it has nothing like that much of the addressable market for the typical VC-based mobile app-focused startup in London, San Francisco or Berlin.
The second reason crowdfunding wont be a fit for these tech startups is that the tech startups generally do not have revenue or much, if any, consumer traction at the point of early VC funding.
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Until a few years ago, whether you succeeded or failed, serial entrepreneurship was the main pattern (the other one being the founder-to-VC Dark Side switcheroo).
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