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recent bookmarks from asterisk2aEntrepreneur and investor Gary Vaynerchuk 'cannot wait' for the startup armageddon - Recode2016-07-26T23:39:32+00:00
http://www.recode.net/2016/7/21/12218712/gary-vaynerchuk-entrepreneurship-startups-bubble-vaynermedia-podcast
asterisk2aGary Vaynerchuk Silicon Valley distortion distorted ZIRP NIRP QE reflate reflation 2016 recovery growth round Private Equity hunt for yield asset allocation Mutual Fund Seed A Facebook Snapchat bubble fiscal policy monetary economic history Markethttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:fa427c2e7bfa/Pando: Does “Venture capital” need a new name?2016-07-08T22:05:08+00:00
https://pando.com/2016/07/08/does-venture-capital-need-new-name/
asterisk2aalternative asset investment Venture Capital hunt for yield distortion ZIRP NIRP QE growth round Private Equity Mutual Fund secular stagnation austerityhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:2a58e4c0f169/The Growth Trap2016-04-23T00:58:55+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUGzUktP7jg
asterisk2aVenture Capital Unicorn shareholder capitalism Greed value profit maximisation maximization Wall Street activists Yahoo! Google Inc. Alphabet Microsoft IBM Intel Oracle exploitation Super Rich short-termism short-term thinking 1% plutocracy oligarchy M&A economic growth round Mutual Fund macroeconomic policy secular stagnation Private Equity MBO Pivot IPO dividends prosperity Start-Ups Start-up s&p500 pension scheme finite resources resource depletion history creative destruction share buyback Apple in crisis capitalist Uber monopoly oligopol oligopoly antitrust corruption western world squeezed middle class emerging BRIC business cycle company book cost center overhead costcutting operating performance margin globalisation globalization Universal Basic Income artificial intelligence AI augmented Robotics automation structural unemployment materialism consumerism status anxiety disenfranchise disenfranchised youth post-capitalism Mobile Banlieue deprivation poverty trap meritocracy meritocratic Gini coefficiehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:368692c3c14f/Börsenpläne von Spotify: Der Sound der Zocker2016-04-01T08:34:40+00:00
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/spotify-milliardendeal-koennte-musik-streamingdienst-teuer-kommen-a-1084618.html
asterisk2aSpotify IPO growth round Private Equity Goldman Sachs liquidation preferences termsheet Box Aaron Levie Apple Music Google Inc. Play Amazon Prime M&A Soundcloud Deezer Rdio Pandora Microsoft Venture Capital Unicorn business model subscription freemiumhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:a2124b95d924/Snapchat raises $175 Million From Fidelity | Re/code2016-03-04T06:44:29+00:00
http://recode.net/2016/03/03/snapchat-raises-175-million-from-fidelity-at-same-16-billion-valuation/
asterisk2adownround growth round Snapchat Venture Capital Private Market Mutual Fund Equityhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:d0d1ee91620b/Kickstarter - Failure To Launch by Motherboard | Free Listening on SoundCloud2016-02-29T05:47:49+00:00
https://soundcloud.com/motherboard/kickstarter-failure-to-launch
asterisk2aKickstarter crowd funding Party Roundhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:2e71e716ff6c/The Information's 411 — "Multiples" by The Information Podcasts2016-02-28T22:26:32+00:00
https://soundcloud.com/user-875591423/the-informations-411-multiples
asterisk2aDropBox Zenefits Venture Capital growth round Private Market Mutual Fund Equity hunt for yield hot-money distortion ZIRP NIRP QE financial repression New Normal secular stagnation western world emerging middle class BRIC Frontier Markets speculative bubbles speculation herding herd Seed Angel Investor Party risk linkedin Box GAAP cash flow Workday Salesforce burn rate valuation downround liquidation preferences liquidity trap asset allocation Slack SAAS Wall Street economic USA UK Uber Palantir BlackRock Domo Thumbtack Unicorn Snapdeal Snapchathttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f2ad7c826da4/Someone is posting images of dead unicorns in the heart of Silicon Valley - Quartz2016-02-24T21:53:17+00:00
http://qz.com/623952/palantir-flyers-dead-unicorns-silicon-valley/
asterisk2aUnicorn Silicon Valley termsheet liquidation preferences growth roundhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6a963f1c9bfa/Pando: So we’ve all agreed: Zenefits will be the (guilty) scapegoat for all that went wrong in tech for the last five years2016-02-24T01:08:24+00:00
https://pando.com/2016/02/23/so-weve-all-agreed-zenefits-will-be-guilty-scapegoat-everything-went-wrong-tech-last-five-years/
asterisk2aZenefits Uber Silicon Valley Hype Cycle growth round hunt for yield distortion governance corporate culture filter bubble Angel Investor Party Seed Incubator Private Market FOMOhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c0cf79246755/Rich Tech Bro: "I Don't Want To See Homeless Riff-Raff" - YouTube2016-02-20T17:22:13+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmsK69buhpU
asterisk2ahomeless homelessness San Francisco Silicon Valley gentrification Gentrified free market affordable housing social Crisis income distribution inequality Gini coefficient distortion ZIRP NIRP QE hot-money hunt for yield Venture Capital Angel Investor Seed Round Party substance abuse deprivation mental health care USA prison–industrial complex Services Public austerity Perspektivlosigkeit Beschaffungskriminalität self-medication coping mechanism trickle-down economics neoliberalism neoliberal neoconservatism neoconservatives plutocracy oligarchy Super Rich 1% urban planning urbanisation filter bubble society Wertegesellschaft Gesellschaft Zivilgesellschafthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:650f8e18f447/Inside How Mutual Funds Value Private Tech — The Information2016-02-13T13:58:54+00:00
https://www.theinformation.com/inside-how-mutual-funds-value-private-tech?shared=29ca1a
asterisk2adownround growth round Mutual Fund SPV Uber Zenefits Snapchat Silicon Valley DropBox hunt for yield ZIRP NIRP QE speculative bubbles risk capital liquidation preferences termsheet asset allocation distortion Lyft equity bubble reflate reflation financial repression New Normal secular stagnation hot-money BRIC emerging market Frontier Marketshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:7d219ddc18b9/The "Tourist" Investors Flooding Silicon Valley With Money Will Go Home One Day - BuzzFeed News2016-02-11T13:53:58+00:00
http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/why-startups-should-be-wary-of-tourist-investors#.bfZ32DxE6
asterisk2ahunt for yield distortion speculative bubbles asset allocation Silicon Valley Party Round Angel Investor Seed ZIRP NIRP QE hot-money Mutual Fund growth risk capital Venture Frontier Markets emerging market credit bubble China BRIC 2015 2016 2014 Unicorn reflate reflation economic history equity bond property secular stagnation middle class India financial repression behavioral finance economics psychology fiscal policy monetary austerity Richard Koohttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:1088a27bc1e9/Zenefits: Were the Valley's kingmakers wrong, or did they just lie?2016-02-11T13:46:33+00:00
https://pando.com/2016/02/09/zenefits-and-art-picking-winners/
asterisk2aZenefits growth round Unicorn self-regulation compliance governancehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:71085382aa60/Masters in Business: Yale Professor Robert Shiller (Audio) by Bloomberg View2016-02-07T00:53:18+00:00
https://soundcloud.com/bloombergview/masters-in-business-yale-1
asterisk2afree market marketplace efficiencies inefficiencies efficient-market hypothesis complexity human Wall Street crowd herd herding speculative bubbles distortion economic history GFC subprime book Robert Shiller robertshiller behavioral finance economics corporate welfare subsidies subsidizing tax rate R&D Venture Capital Angel Investor Seed Round risk pension fund obligation 401k public scheme marginal propensity to consume plutocracy Super Rich 1% Greed oligarchy self-regulation disposable income discretionary spending negative equity boom & bust secular stagnation shareholder value profit maximisationhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6ce43808bc71/Pando: Two slides that could predict a worse quarter for venture capital is coming2016-01-25T16:48:47+00:00
https://pando.com/2016/01/22/two-slides-could-predict-worse-quarter-venture-capital-coming/
asterisk2agrowth round Venture Capital ZIRP NIRP QE distortion Silicon Valley Private Equity Mutual Fund Angel Investor Seed Party Market Hype Cycle Unicorn China credit bubble monetary policy liquidity trap speculative bubbles asset allocation QT Software Is Eating The World mobile homescreenhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f73cc2f1c86d/Pando: Unicorns on fire: Funding falls dramatically in the fourth quarter, along with exits of all kinds2016-01-08T01:51:33+00:00
https://pando.com/2016/01/07/unicorns-fire-funding-falls-dramatically-fourth-quarter-along-exits-all-kinds/
asterisk2aIPO Unicorn growth round ZIRP NIRP QE distortion Private Market Wall Street Fed monetary policy USA China business confidence Silicon Valley Hype Cycle termsheet liquidation preferences Equity Mutual Fund SPV Venture Capital Angel Investor Seed Oil price QThttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:372713764649/The True Impact Of The Snapchat Writedown For Entrepreneurs | TechCrunch2015-12-01T16:57:17+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/29/the-true-impact-of-the-snapchat-writedown-for-entrepreneurs/
asterisk2aSnapchat Unicorn Silicon Valley Venture Capital growth round hunt for yieldhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:734d59867401/Pando: The most patient man in Silicon Valley2015-10-15T00:59:40+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/10/12/most-patient-man-silicon-valley/
asterisk2aNaval Ravikant AngelList Venture Capital Silicon Valley Networking Software Is Eating The World crowd funding Seed Round Angel Investor disruption disrupting markets bottom up SPV growth Party List angel-list A Start-Up lesson advicehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c1c4c9acb661/Is the dotcom bubble about to burst (again)? | Technology | The Guardian2015-10-04T22:59:29+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/04/is-dotcom-bubble-about-to-burst-again
asterisk2aUnicorn Silicon Valley FOMO hunt for yield Private Market 2015 ZIRP NIRP QE distortion capital allocation asset growth roundhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:3d9006392659/Pando: Good news! B rounds have doubled in value over five years!2015-09-14T23:28:15+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/09/14/good-news-b-rounds-have-doubled-value-over-five-years/
asterisk2aSilicon Valley Seed Round Party SPV Venture Capital Private Market FOMO hunt for yield B A growth Equity Hedge Fund Angel Investor Micro VC 2015 cost of living credit bubble entry aspirational leverage margin trading asset allocation distortion ZIRP NIRP QE BOE BOJ Abenomics PBOC Fed unintended consequences burn rate runway ECB Mutual unknown unkown inflation targeting mandate expectation secular stagnation deflationary deflation economic speculative bubbles speculation reflate reflation monetary policy unconventional financial repression western world Developing BRIC emerging complexity incomplete informationhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:7c333b5c182f/Venture capitalists have Dying Unicorn lists. But they won't share 'em - Fortune2015-09-09T19:43:07+00:00
http://fortune.com/2015/09/08/dying-unicorn-lists/
asterisk2aUnicorn growth round Venture Capital Start-Up lesson advicehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b6e5734ade5d/We’re gonna need a bigger round...2015-09-06T09:52:28+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/07/30/were-gonna-need-bigger-round/
asterisk2acost of entry living standard spaces city commuting London Start-up Scene San Francisco burn rate runway advice lesson urbanisation urban planning Mountain View Palo Alto Redwood growth round Venture Capital hunt for yield FOMO asset allocation bubble speculative bubbles property hot-money ZIRP NIRP QE China PBOC 2015 credit Fed ECB BOJ excess reserves economic history equity bond speculation Micro VC Limited Partners Angel Investor Seed Party valuation globalization globalisation flat world borderlesshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:32e94d616811/The size of the late-stage funding gap in Europe: research2015-09-03T03:17:50+00:00
http://tech.eu/features/5802/atomico-research-data-funding-gap-europe-us/
asterisk2aVenture Capital growth round Unicorn Europe Start-Up Scene London Berlinhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:0613d66bc8e0/Priceline's Lessons for Uber, Airbnb and Other Unicorns - Bloomberg View2015-09-01T22:33:01+00:00
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-01/priceline-s-lessons-for-uber-airbnb-and-other-unicorns
asterisk2aUber Private Market AirBnB Unicorn Decacorn hunt for yield growth round Equity Mutual Fund Silicon Valley dot.com Snapchat IPO Wall Street shareholder value profit maximisation Twitterhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:47f178beed5c/Pando: In the Valley, pre-seed is a meme. In New York, it’s a necessity2015-09-01T19:31:28+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/09/01/valley-pre-seed-meme-new-york-its-necessity/
asterisk2aSeed Round Party Venture Capital Micro VC barriers to entry cost of London Start-up Scene ecosystem New York burn rate runway traction A seedfunding funding Angel Investor dilution cap table lesson advice liquidation preferences hunt for yield 2015 distortion FOMO equity bubble credit ZIRP NIRP QE asset allocation Limited Partners monetary policy fiscal Wall Street behavioral finance economics Silicon Valley Private Market Public reflate reflation living valuation Unicorn Decacorn leverage financial repression literacy cycle business confidence consumer hubris panic irrational exuberance retail banking investment fractional reserve crisishttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:58ed3b4db5e3/Gurley on Global Selloff: Bloomberg West (Full Show 8/21) - YouTube2015-08-28T23:19:14+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThV7GkBv6HI
asterisk2agrowth round IPO Bill Gurley Venture Capital Private Market Unicorn Decacorn Mutual Fund Equity Hedge 2015 speculative bubbles speculation hunt for yield burn rate runway sentiment business confidence consumer China recovery bubble reflate reflation book Ben Horowitz Marc Andreessen model cash flow cash-is-king Start-Up lesson financial advice valuation Mark Suster Wall Streethttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:e4cfa6377024/Tech Stocks Rebound: Bloomberg West (Full Show 8/25) - YouTube2015-08-28T21:26:30+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htxuHOrDsZQ&feature=youtu.be&t=15m53s
asterisk2aLondon Start-up Scene San Francisco Palo Alto Bay Area Mountain View Oakland Seattle Portland New York Los Angeles cost of living entry ownership standard environment noise pollution air city quality life urbanisation urban planning California public transportation commuting well being chronic stress Oxidative happiness index affordable housing social speculative bubbles speculation Redwood Jose bootstraped bootstrapping bootstrapped burn rate runway Venture Capital growth round war for talent lesson advicehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8a701bdddd6f/Pando: Do SpoonRocket and GoodEggs signal the beginning of the on demand food contraction?2015-08-27T14:30:29+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/08/26/do-spoonrocket-and-goodeggs-signal-beginning-demand-food-contraction/
asterisk2aconvenience Uber on-demand Postmates Marketplace FoodPanda Delivery Hero Rocket Internet burn rate growth round customer acquisition CAC retention LTCV user churn 1099 Economy Gig self-employmenthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:62f2c7c7d958/Why Billion-Dollar Valuations Don’t Matter | TechCrunch2015-08-25T22:21:17+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/25/why-billion-dollar-valuations-dont-matter/#.qy0vrq:ySLt
asterisk2aUnicorn SAAS Slack DropBox Box Venture Capital Silicon Valley growth round 2015 KPI metrics accounting user churn customer retention upselling acquisition CAC Decacorn on-demand convenience Marketplace business model Product/Market Fit Share Economy middleman scale economies of FOMO hunt for yield Start-Up advice lesson burn rate runway Homejoy Net Promoter Score consumer product B2C B2Bhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:af381e77a133/El-Erian: This Is Not 1998 or 2008 - YouTube2015-08-25T14:14:09+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlmhNKVT6QM
asterisk2areflate reflation hunt for yield ZIRP NIRP QE asset allocation equity bubble speculative bubbles speculation secular stagnation New Normal bond distortion economic history trickle-down economics recovery UK USA Europe dogma ideology austerity fiscal policy stimulus Richard Koo Japan lost decade generation balance sheet recession deleveraging savings rate debtoverhang debt servitude sovereign crisis faultlines Structural Impediments participation unemployment imbalance Makers error folly macroprudential microeconomic monetary theory unconventional transmission mechanism system STEM industrial Manufacturing competitiveness globalisation globalization flat world commodity business commoditization borderless deflationary deflation Software Is Eating The Marketplace mobile homescreen phone first Smartphone Revolution 2.0 energy price Oil inflation expectation wage growth productivity output gap underinvestment Gini coefficient inequality income mobility social productive investment IMF OECD developed emerging middhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:725f7002c3c5/SoftBank President's investing advice - YouTube2015-08-23T23:27:35+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNj6eoYdjSk
asterisk2aSoftBank Nikesh Arora growth round Snapdeal Silicon Valley AirBnB Uber China Asia GrabTaxi Rocket Internet Coupang Alibaba India Flipkarthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b4663ed5fe76/Growth vs Retention – AVC2015-08-22T21:21:08+00:00
http://avc.com/2015/07/growth-vs-retention/
asterisk2auser churn customer acquisition Product/Market Fit MVP business strategy product Start-Up lesson advice burn rate runway Homejoy distribution model discovery content Net Promoter Score word of mouth Tribe 1000 True Fans UI UX experience engagement retention service SAAS marketing growth round cost center short-term view thinking feedbackhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:1989b43486ca/The investors who will invest ask you why they shouldn’t. – AVC2015-08-22T21:15:06+00:00
http://avc.com/2015/07/go-east-young-man/
asterisk2aVenture Capital Angel Investor Seed Round Party Pitch deck pitching Risk Start-Up lesson advicehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:79e5c0c99a3e/eShares - Cap table management, subscription 409a valuations, ASC 718, and employee liquidity.2015-08-22T21:10:37+00:00
https://esharesinc.com/
asterisk2acap table stockoptions Start-Up advice lesson termsheet liquidation preferences growth round IPOhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:5e4d12b7fed9/A Dozen Things I’ve Learned From Chris Sacca About Venture Capital | 25iq2015-08-20T21:33:04+00:00
http://25iq.com/2014/10/25/a-dozen-things-ive-learned-from-chris-sacca-about-venture-capital/
asterisk2aVenture Capital a16z First Round s23p Chamath Palihapitiya Marc Andreessen Ben Horowitz 500 Start-ups ycombinator Start-Up advice lesson Networkinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:aad6ae4c450d/Jeff Bezos Revealed: Building Amazon One Box at a Time - YouTube2015-08-20T16:53:43+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfAhTtBlb2Q
asterisk2aAmazon Kindle audible competitive competitiveness competition Start-Up lesson advice IPO growth round e-commerce Jeff Bezos e-book ebook ebooks books book Print is Dead user behaviour Prime Platform Marketplace efficiencies long-tail long-term view thinking monopoly monopsony antitrust creative destruction disruption disrupting markets customer experience Silo TOS Silicon Valley corporate culture valueshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:7b1e370ce8c0/QVC Owner Buys Zulily: Bloomberg West (Full Show 8/17) - YouTube2015-08-20T16:33:35+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbwApBFe1kk
asterisk2aZulily e-commerce flash sale IPO Wall Street profit maximisation shareholder value Etsy M&A eBay vertical category Start-Up lesson advice Silicon Valley growth round Amazon compensation package Office Politicshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:ac20ec03eed0/India's Snapdeal raises $500m from international investors - BBC News2015-08-19T15:25:00+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33984134
asterisk2ae-commerce Flipkart Snapchat India China Amazon commodity business commoditization BRIC Developing World emerging middle class Frontier Markets growth round Venture Capital customer acquisition LTCV retention user churn burn rate runwayhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:3e3177bd2343/Brokering Private Stocks Yet to Yield Big Profits — The Information2015-08-17T18:12:18+00:00
https://www.theinformation.com/brokering-private-stocks-yet-to-yield-big-profits
asterisk2aSecondary Market IPO Silicon Valley asset allocation hunt for yield 2015 growth round Venture Capitalhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:72e21f283ac6/Anti-Angel-Gesetz: Auch die CDU schießt gegen Schäubles Pläne | Gründerszene2015-08-16T13:48:14+00:00
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/anti-angel-gesetz-cdu-widerstand
asterisk2aBerlin Start-Up Scene tax code Venture Capital Angel Investor Seed Round evasion avoidance Wolfgang Schäuble Angela Merkel GroKo Germany Mittelstand entrepreneurship entrepreneur entrepreneurial Failure society stigma SME SMB national interest creative destruction Software Is Eating The Worldhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:057695c4ed1a/Oli und die nächste Milliarde | Gründerszene2015-08-16T12:10:19+00:00
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/rocket-internet-growth-fund
asterisk2aRocket Internet growth round Oliver Samwer Brothers 2015https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:bebf9c385204/Why I'm Moving My Business From San Francisco to St. Louis | Need/Want2015-08-16T07:34:33+00:00
http://needwant.com/p/im-moving-san-francisco-st-louis/
asterisk2aSan Francisco Palo Alto Mountain View growth round Google Facebook Venture Capital hunt for yield Silicon Valley barriers to entry cost of living burn rate runway Start-Up lesson advice Seed Angel Investor Micro VC bootstraped bootstrapping bootstrapped New York Scene London Los Angeles asset allocation ZIRP NIRP QE unintended consequences unknown unkown Taper Unicorn Decacorn 2015https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:268c21276bc8/A Rare Look Inside a Private Tech Stock Loan — The Information2015-08-15T14:39:00+00:00
https://www.theinformation.com/a-rare-look-Inside-A-Private-tech-Stock-Loan-Deal
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice growth round Private Market Venture Capital financing hunt for yield investment banking IPO Silicon Valley SolarCityhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c94c3c7c2e75/Private Tech Draws Wide Array of Mutual Funds — The Information2015-08-15T14:26:08+00:00
https://www.theinformation.com/mutual-funds-pile-into-Uber
asterisk2aUber growth round Silicon Valley Venture Capital Mutual Fund Private Equity Hedge hunt for yield liquidation preferences termsheethttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:28ea51187fdf/Uber operating at big losses, suggests document leak - BBC News2015-08-08T23:47:30+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33800073
asterisk2aUber Venture Capital growth round Unicorn Decacorn 2015 Lift termsheet liquidation preferenceshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:7dd9bcdd6f5b/Y Combinator Finally Reveals Its Approach To Growth-Stage Investing | TechCrunch2015-07-26T05:51:43+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/22/y-combinator-finally-reveals-its-approach-to-growth-stage-investing/
asterisk2aycombinator growth round signaling risk Venture Capital Seed Ahttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:bad10a752c99/#TOA14 Interview with Julie Meyer (CEO & Founder, Ariadne Capital) - YouTube2015-07-24T01:04:03+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8ug38xTx5w
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice traction Focus Product/Market Fit MVP Minimal Viable Product viral coefficient Net Promoter Score network effect Venture Capital hunt for yield Seed Round A Angel Investor London Scene Berlin Networkinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:2c50541dd9fa/The only stat about unicorns that should worry Silicon Valley2015-07-23T02:40:01+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/07/21/only-stat-about-unicorns-should-worry-silicon-valley/
asterisk2aburn rate Unicorn Decacorn runway Silicon Valley growth round San Francisco Palo Alto Bill Gurley Start-Up lesson advice Blue Ocean Venture Capital termsheet liquidation preferences SPV Mutual Fund Private Equity IPOhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:0534cce4dbac/German Startups sagt Börsengang ab - SPIEGEL ONLINE2015-07-21T19:45:56+00:00
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/german-startups-sagt-boersengang-ab-a-1044721.html
asterisk2airrational exuberance hubris Silicon Valley Private Equity IPO Germany Rocket Internet Venture Capital hunt for yield asset allocation alternative investment SPV Mutual Fund growth round 2015 Wall Street bubble NASDAQhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:de0d4908a72f/Fear Trumps Greed in Silicon Valley as Some Venture Firms Hedge - Bloomberg Business2015-07-20T23:07:30+00:00
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-20/fear-trumps-greed-in-silicon-valley-as-some-venture-firms-hedge
asterisk2aSilicon Valley burn rate runway cash flow cash-is-king hunt for yield distortion ZIRP NIRP QE growth round SPV war talent Private Market Equity Hedge Fund Mutual bubble USA Fed Taper asset allocation Angel Investor Seed business model advertising VC Venture Capital Greed FOMO speculative bubbles speculation SoftBank IPO NASDAQ A Unicorn Decacorn termsheet liquidation preferences exit strategy M&A acquisition acquihire acqui-hire cycle plan investment confidence consumer leverage debtoverhang irrational exuberancehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:174e7699ef23/Welcome To The Unicorn Club, 2015: Learning From Billion-Dollar Companies | TechCrunch2015-07-18T20:54:36+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/18/welcome-to-the-unicorn-club-2015-learning-from-billion-dollar-companies/#.qy0vrq:2J78
asterisk2aUnicorn Silicon Valley marketshare growth round FOMO Private Market hunt for yield speculative bubbles speculation SPV diversity gender bias gender-based discrimination politics equality policing harassment STEM pattern matching recognition nurture environment entrepreneurhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:980bacd9c481/Silicon Valley: 'Centre of the universe' - but for how long? - BBC News2015-07-16T19:31:56+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33546194
asterisk2aSilicon Valley irrational exuberance speculative bubbles speculation growth round late-stage funding Unicorn Bill Gurleyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:514657f328da/The frustrating, no-win "Goldilocks Zone" of seed deals2015-07-09T17:32:46+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/07/08/frustrating-no-win-goldilocks-zone-seed-deals/
asterisk2aSeed Round Party Start-Up lesson advice Angel Investor Micro VC Venture Capital Series A seedround seedfunding traction business model Silicon Valley economies of scale pageviews Unicorn valuation speculative bubbles speculationhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6b3a2e1ff736/Snapchat Solicits Longer Content By Ditching Tap-And-Hold-To-Watch | TechCrunch2015-07-01T19:35:55+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/01/but-are-they-still-watching/
asterisk2aSnapchat snacking attention span user behaviour mobile homescreen phone valuation Evan Spiegel product management consumer Social Media Network Core Value Proposition experience Design Minimal Viable Product/Market Fit Officer differentiate differentiation Twitter Facebook business model Unicorn speculative bubbles speculation growth round Silicon Valleyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6bcbdb30c26f/Sacca: Bad Deals Are Being Done in Silicon Valley - Bloomberg Business2015-06-12T13:29:42+00:00
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-11/sacca-carl-icahn-made-a-mistake-with-lyft
asterisk2aChris Sacca Silicon Valley ecosystem Twitter runway burn rate cash flow business model San Francisco Palo Alto hunt for yield distortion growth round SPV Hedge Fund Mutual late-stage funding Private Market Equity ZIRP NIRP QE cash-is-king Bill Gurley Unicorn Hype Cycle inflation Venture Capital Micro VC Angel Investor war talenthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:885f0803e791/Who Will Be Hurt Most When The Tech Bubble Bursts? Not VCs | TechCrunch2015-05-30T18:53:39+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/24/who-will-be-hurt-most-when-the-tech-bubble-burst-not-vcs/#.qy0vrq:7rfy
asterisk2aSilicon Valley burn rate operations Bill Gurley Unicorn runway FOMO Venture Capital growth round termsheet liquidation preferences Private Market Equity SPV bubble distortion QE ZIRP NIRP disinflation secular stagnation deflationary deflation western world business model revenue revenues fiscal policy income USA OECD sovereign debt crisis austerity disposable error Taper folly monetary productive investment underinvestment infrastructure 1% Super Rich on-demand convenience Share Economy labour economics discretionary spending Schuldenbremse PIGS Brexit Grexit currency war macroeconomics Pact Europe productivity Lohnzurückhaltung job creation globalisation globalization Niedriglohn Niedriglohnsektor Service Sector Jobs flat borderless competitive Future of Work Industrial Revolution 2.0 economic history speculative bubbles speculation demographic Cycle consumer zombie bankshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:30fff9e079ab/Unicorn sugar crash | PandoDaily2015-05-16T23:33:34+00:00
http://pando.com/2015/05/16/unicorn-sugar-crash/
asterisk2aUnicorn termsheet liquidation preferences growth round Start-Up lesson advice Silicon Valley pitch deck valuation speculative speculationhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:03e24a1e4f78/One Thing All the Billion-Dollar Unicorns Have in Common | Re/code2015-05-11T18:17:37+00:00
https://recode.net/2015/05/10/heres-one-thing-all-the-billion-dollar-unicorns-have-in-common/
asterisk2aUnicorn Start-Up lesson advice Silicon Valley SPV growth round hunt for yield Private Equity burn rate runway business model Venture Capital Mutual Fund Hedge termsheet liquidation preferenceshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:32cdbe394235/Naval Ravikant to VCs: “You can lie to your LPs, but don’t lie to yourselves” | PandoDaily2015-05-09T04:50:21+00:00
http://pando.com/2015/05/08/naval-ravikant-to-vcs-you-can-lie-to-your-lps-but-dont-lie-to-yourselves/
asterisk2aVenture Capital angel-list Seed Round Angel Investor SPV Private Equity IPO growth Sand Hill Road Silicon Valley 500 Start-ups Rocket Internet ycombinator Accelerator TechStars Camp Incubator niche vertical Secondary Market a16z s23p hunt for yield distortion Signal vs. Noise wantrepreneur economics of abundance marginal cost MicroVC Party Start-Up lesson advice ecosystemhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:d14828ab3ef7/Building A Moat In A Bubble: Navigating Today’s Financing Environment | TechCrunch2015-05-07T19:30:49+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/07/build-a-moat/
asterisk2aSilicon Valley burn rate runway 2015 growth round Seed Angel Investor hunt for yield MVP Product/Market Fit Start-Up lesson advice fiduciary responsibility Private Markethttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:e2bea78f4684/Zenefits Is Tagged With a $4.5 Billion Valuation After Just Two Years - Digits - WSJ2015-05-06T16:23:39+00:00
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/05/06/zenefits-tagged-with-4-5-billion-valuation-after-just-two-years/
asterisk2aZenefits Unicorn growth round Private Market Equityhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:527f129cb395/You Need To Be A Billion Just To Make A Million | TechCrunch2015-05-04T18:59:35+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/26/you-need-to-be-a-billion-just-to-make-a-million/
asterisk2aSilicon Valley San Francisco barriers to entry distortion NIRP ZIRP QE A Round Seed Angel Investor hunt for yield Private Market competitive advantage ecosystem burn rate runway MVP Product/Market Fit Start-Up lesson advice unintended consequences bubble speculative bubbles speculation Venture Capital Equity growth hacking hacker structural imbalance Impediments creative destruction Unicorn competitiveness competition Signal vs. Noise allocation attention span New York Scene Alley HR human resourceshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:074374a76639/Rocket Internet’s Foodpanda Gobbles Up $100M More Led By Goldman Sachs | TechCrunch2015-05-02T15:35:47+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/30/please-sir/
asterisk2aRocket Internet Foodpanda Delivery Hero convenience on-demand Services Industry service economy Sector Jobs mobile phone homescreen first Smartphone disposable income Private Equity growth round asset allocation GoldmanSachs Goldman Sachshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6f5b18d7a3a9/New stats show raising Seed money from big VCs increases survival. (The opposite of what everyone in the Valley says) | PandoDaily2015-04-30T21:45:30+00:00
http://pando.com/2013/03/19/new-stats-show-raising-seed-money-from-big-vcs-increases-survival-the-opposite-of-what-everyone-in-the-valley-says/
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice Venture Capital Seed Round Angel Investor Party distortion hunt for yield economic history unintended consequences ZIRP NIRP QE technological progress Micro-VC VC Product/Market Fit post-traction Series A MVP meritocracy meritocratic Accelerator ycombinator Camp TechStars 500 Start-upshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:58aa615d2d3f/The Micro VC Shakeout | TechCrunch2015-04-27T13:32:57+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/26/the-microvc-shakeout/
asterisk2aVenture Capital hunt for yield barriers to entry complexity unintended consequences speculative bubbles asset bubble equity bond debt NIRP ZIRP QE allocation ecosystem FOMO Angel Investor Seed Round Accelerator distortion Unicorn growth Private SPV Wall Streethttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8eedca15737e/CEO Supper Club: Why Box.net's Aaron Levie Has So Much Gray Hair - YouTube2015-04-27T12:21:51+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af8zJDxx5wc
asterisk2abootstraped bootstrapping bootstrapped Venture Capital Start-Up lesson advice termsheet growth roundhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f6797ff013b8/(10) Gary Vaynerchuk2015-04-26T18:51:30+00:00
https://www.facebook.com/gary/videos/10153203671523350/?permPage=1
asterisk2awantrepreneur entrepreneur Venture Capital Silicon Valley Ivy League ivyleague bubble speculative bubbles Seed Round A Angel Investor noise pollution Signal vs. unintended consequences ZIRP NIRP QE hunt for yield equity bondhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:5c2cd9c05104/Game Of Angels Maps Tech Influence Networks | TechCrunch2015-04-26T17:31:16+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/25/game-of-angels/
asterisk2aAngel Investor Seed Round Venture Capital Network Networking angel-list angelinvestors angelinvestor openangelforum Business ecosystem Big Data Silicon Valley analyticshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:93fa1cccf085/(Founder Stories) Instagram-Backer Steve Anderson: Forget The Billion-Dollar Exits | TechCrunch2015-04-25T12:23:22+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/23/founder-stories-instagram-backer-steve-anderson-forget-the-billion-dollar-exits/
asterisk2aSeed Round Angel Investor A Start-Up lesson advice Venture Capital 2011 Silicon Valleyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:29be8aa4dfde/Slack's massive funding round is everything amazing and insane about the startup bubble | The Verge2015-04-23T13:08:08+00:00
http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/17/8431989/slacks-massive-new-funding-round-is-everything-amazing-and-insane
asterisk2aSlack Unicorn growth round Silicon Valley San Francisco distortion Private Market Equity Venture Capital SAAS Enterprise 2.0 valuation hunt for yield speculative bubbles asset allocationhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:aabf34d4cb30/