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recent bookmarks from asterisk2aThe Rise (and Fall) of Patreon - YouTube2023-10-01T22:15:30+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXyN3-gQwJw
asterisk2aPatreon Venture Capital VC ZIRP QEhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:d069078b69a3/Andreessen Horowitz saw the future — but did the future leave it behind? - The Verge2023-05-14T15:29:46+00:00
https://www.theverge.com/23697708/andreessen-horowitz-a16z-investing-tech
asterisk2aUber Lyft ROI Bitcoin crypto Theranos Tesla SpaceX Elon Musk VR Twitter Groupon a16z Venture Capital hype hypecycle Buzzfeed Clubhouse Substack Media Social ZIRP QE Silicon Valleyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:574271848c7f/The Tech Billionaire Who Became the King of SPACs - YouTube2021-08-29T21:25:43+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FxEYug6Ca4
asterisk2aSPAC Chamath Palihapitiya Facebook VC Venture Capital FOMO equity bubble FED speculation investor psychology stock market ZIRPhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4a55defa9b96/ARM chip designer to be bought by Japan's Softbank2016-07-18T13:37:11+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36822806
asterisk2aM&A SoftBank Capital shareholder value capitalism dividends smart phone IoT profit maximisation maximization equity bubble distortion hunt for yield ARM Venture ROI Tories nasty party Conservative technological unemployment research R&D productive investment Intel Applehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4f353a3b1643/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/German Banks Told To Start Hoarding Cash | Zero Hedge2016-03-04T19:40:55+00:00
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-04/revolution-begins-german-banks-told-start-hoarding-cash
asterisk2aRichard Koo aggregate demand austerity fiscal policy Pact Schuldenbremse economic history ZIRP NIRP QE distortion financial repression hunt for yield speculative bubbles speculation Venture Capital Mutual Fund Private Equity reflate reflation recovery GFC debtoverhang liquidity trap zombie banks deleveraging Debt Super Cycle secular stagnation consumer wage squeezed middle class disposable income discretionary spending marginal propensity to consume tax evasion avoidance oligarchy plutocracy Rich 1% household car loan credit card student Bubble generation rent OMT job creation Service Sector Jobs working poor precarious work Precariat Zero Hour Contract Contractor Leiharbeit Zeitarbeit Agenda 2010 low pay TLTRO LTRO monetary transmission mechanism velocity of moneyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c7771e102797/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/The Information's 411 - "Shrinking Pies" by The Information Podcasts | Free Listening on SoundCloud2016-02-28T23:43:37+00:00
https://soundcloud.com/user-875591423/the-informations-411-shrinking-pies
asterisk2adownround valuation foursquare jawbone Silicon Valley Private Market Venture Capitalhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:0c7d38229ff1/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/Female founder raising venture capital? Your odds are even worse than I thought2016-02-21T22:17:29+00:00
https://pando.com/2016/02/17/female-founder-raising-venture-capital-your-odds-are-even-worse-i-thought/
asterisk2aSilicon Valley Venture Capital glass ceiling Female Founders gender inequality policing politics gap pay bias role normshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:e26496c8ef44/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/Die Macht der Finanzkonzerne - Wie Blackrock mittels Geld die Welt regiert - YouTube2016-02-18T00:57:48+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp7vgOqgpBg
asterisk2aBlackRock MBO LBO M&A Private Equity financial product Hedge Fund Black Swan blackswan Nassim Taleb self-regulation Mutual Venture Capital risk governance corporate lobbyist lobby Lobbying Wall Street shareholder value profit maximisation activist investor Main accountability transparency mainstreet arbitrage squeezed middle class wage stagnation bonuses bonus speculation revolving door regulation regulators Career Politicians CEO pay dividends Heuschrecken ROI speculative sustainability tax code ethics scandal accounting oligarchy plutocracy Super Rich 1% GFC sovereign debt crisishttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:9a2dd188a91c/Matt Taibbi: Mitt Romney and the Looting of America (1/2) - YouTube2016-02-18T00:14:59+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-kKGELUc8A
asterisk2a> money spend (debt) on hostile takeover/LBO/MBO/M&A are tax deductible! << = invest in debt, rather than equity! & carried interest is only taxed at 15% max. still can reduce it w deductions xyz. // !!! NO SKIN IN THE GAME !!! Nassim Taleb //]]>Mitt Romney risk capital Venture LBO MBO Wall Street M&A shareholder value profit maximisation multinational conglomerate Mafia Private Equity oligarchy plutocracy Super Rich 1% activist investor share buyback Hedge Fund Heuschrecken bankruptcy public sentiment awareness creative destruction financial product self-regulation regulation regulators BlackRock Bain CEO pay bonuses bonus squeezed middle class Blackstone dividends mainstream Main hostile takeover USA lobbyist lobby Lobbying tax code Nassim Taleb vested interest groups Career Politicianshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f5838562705f/Pando: VCs- don’t compare me to your wife, just don’t2016-02-16T22:09:12+00:00
https://pando.com/2016/02/15/vcs-dont-compare-me-your-wife-just-dont/
asterisk2aVenture Capital gender bias gender-based discrimination policing politics pay gap Women in Tech inequality HR human resources subconscious snap judgement prejudice cognitive confirmation selection role norms non-conforminghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f602955fc255/Pando: Does a VC’s unconscious hesitation to fund women start at home?2016-02-12T18:25:12+00:00
https://pando.com/2016/02/11/does-vcs-unconscious-reticence-fund-women-start-home/
asterisk2aSilicon Valley gender inequality gender-based discrimination harassment confirmation bias selection snap judgement HR human resources policing politics pay gap meritocracy meritocratic boys club everyday sexism sexismus misogyny Misogynie male privilege straight white Venture Capitalhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f476844e7b79/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/Honest YouTube Talk Time - YouTube2016-02-07T11:45:33+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRWr4VNqIjY
asterisk2aYouTube Social Media pay to play content discovery distribution Gary Vaynerchuk The Wars Venture Capital attention graph span mobile homescreen Snapchat Facebook Newsfeed algorithm Google Search Twitter filter bubble Instagram long-tail crowd herd herding Music Industry mass culture Pop creator digital economy publishing Age economics of abundance marginal costhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4068fb6b9ee1/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: Sources: Vegas-based Work In Progress co-work space is shutting its doors2016-02-03T00:54:54+00:00
https://pando.com/2016/02/02/sources-vegas-based-work-progress-co-work-space-shutting-its-doors/
asterisk2afree market Venture Capital subsidies subsidizing corporate welfare Silicon Valley Vegas Downtown Project Berlin Start-Up Scene Los Angeles New York Alley economic history fossil fuel renewable energy carbon tax trading scheme carbonfootprint carbonemission code fiscal policy industrial job creation STEM Manufacturing dogma trickle-down economics neoliberalism neoliberal Career Politicians No Representation short-termism Opportunism opportunist microeconomic macroprudential macroeconomic intellectual property IP progressive evasion avoidance democracy social fairnesshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:196fcc7b4fcc/The end of Twitter? Not for its users – we love this great leveller | Dan Snow | Opinion | The Guardian2016-02-02T19:44:35+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/02/twitter-users
asterisk2aTwitter Facebook Newsfeed Wall Street Venture Capital profit maximisation shareholder value capitalismhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:936f2c3f8376/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/When a Unicorn Start-Up Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt - The New York Times2015-12-28T13:56:50+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/technology/when-a-unicorn-start-up-stumbles-its-employees-get-hurt.html
asterisk2aUnicorn liquidation preferences Venture Capital termsheet Start-Up advice lesson downround Private Equityhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:a39dacbf6fd5/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/The Information's 411-10/23 "Blood Feuds" by The Information Podcasts | Free Listening on SoundCloud2015-10-31T22:09:42+00:00
https://soundcloud.com/user-875591423/the-informations-411-1023-blood-feuds
asterisk2a> on.recode.net/1PcJ8zW - Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes’s Five Best Cover Story Appearances, Ranked]]>Theranos Hype Cycle Silicon Valley Elizabeth Holmes Steve Jobs Leadership vision visionary missionary Trope messaging message PR spin doctor Mark Zuckerberg credibility glass cliff ceiling gender-based discrimination harassment Venture Capital B2B Box Aaron Levie B2C Google Inc. Search communication TOS EULA consumer product Protection 23andme Tesla Motors Elon Musk journalismus journalism investigative Amazon disruption disrupting markets Uber Travis Kalanick Jeff Bezoshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:d8744a0e4d9d/Pando: “Is this thing on, bro?”2015-10-15T01:07:11+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/10/08/thing-bro/
asterisk2aVenture Capital diversity Software Is Eating The World Female Foundershttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4b11ff002372/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/American Apparel: a trip from the height of cool to lows of bankruptcy | Business | The Guardian2015-10-06T01:07:49+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/05/american-apparel-from-height-cool-lows-bankruptcy
asterisk2aAmerican Apparel Fashion Industry Manufacturing Branding brand awareness differentiate differentiation USA Fast commodity business commoditization Retail pure play e-commerce Wall Street IPO shareholder value profit maximisation mainstreet.org fiduciary responsibility Venture Capital entrepreneur entrepreneurship Start-Up lesson advice marketing PR advertising advertisementhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:fdb156866f65/Save the World, Turn a Profit - Bloomberg View2015-09-27T01:13:32+00:00
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-25/save-the-world-turn-a-profit
asterisk2amainstreet.org Wall Street shareholder value profit maximisation closetphile corporate values culture vision mission social entrepreneurship Non-Profit fiduciary responsibility Legacy Venture Capital Kickstarter B-corporation Etsy tax avoidance evasion lobbyist lobby Lobbying conglomerate Big Sugar food industry Desert pharmaceutical pharma banking crisis investment retail bank Tesla Motors exploitation revolving doorhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:3b1d39daa7ee/Zumper: One-Third Of San Francisco’s Rent Is Attributable To VC Funding | TechCrunch2015-09-22T23:03:28+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/21/zumper-rent/
asterisk2aSan Francisco Venture Capital cost of living entry standard city burn rate New York Start-Up Scene London runway Networking Network economies agglomeration ecosystem community gentrification Gentrified speculative bubbles property bubble credit BRIC QE ZIRP hunt for yield FOMO NIRP centralbanks asset allocation alternative investmenthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c797c4c348cd/Lab-grown kidneys work in animals - BBC News2015-09-22T21:51:15+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34312125
asterisk2a3D printing biotechnology biotechnologie Organ Donation human tissue medical advances profession research STEM R&D University shared economic interest underinvestment business investment Venture Capital public productive ROIhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b22e718d4aa5/How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo: Steve Ballmer and Corporate America’s Most Spectacular Decline | Vanity Fair2015-09-15T14:19:35+00:00
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer
asterisk2aSteve Ballmer Bill Gates Apple Google Inc. Alphabet Platform EULA Windows 8 10 Satya Nadella Leadership CEO mission vision Principle Mittelstand SME SMB consumer product Facebook Twitter Bing Yahoo! WhatsApp WeChat Line Kakao Talk Silo SAAS Microsoft Azure AWS Amazon Silicon Valley Android iOS Hardware Software Nokia Patent patents IP intellectual property technological progress history disruption disrupting markets bottom up dream Start-Up lesson advice Venture Capital Google+ Tumblr Reddit AOL linkedin foursquare Dennis Crowley HBOhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:57a2f725212f/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/Pando: Your biennial reminder that hype is a drug2015-09-11T18:04:26+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/09/11/your-annual-reminder-hype-drug/
asterisk2aFred Wilson Hype Cycle Start-Up advice lesson Unicorn Venture Capital FOMO hunt for yield distortion downround Silicon Valleyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:964808524d74/Option Games: Common Stock Values Get Murkier — The Information2015-09-11T12:19:56+00:00
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/option-games-common-stock-values-get-murkier
asterisk2acap table liquidation preferences common stock employee option grants Start-Up advice lesson HR human resources compensation package valuation Unicorn Decacorn preferred termsheet Venture Capitalhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:a200a3eb2de1/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/The Shifting Sands Of Sand Hill | TechCrunch2015-09-09T11:11:37+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/08/shifting-sands-of-sand-hill/
asterisk2aVenture Capital San Francisco Silicon Valley Sand Hill Roadhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:a54c3eb5a91a/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/Pando: Blue Apron and the rise of the non-demand economy2015-09-02T21:17:00+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/07/31/blue-apron-and-rise-non-demand-economy/
asterisk2adisposable income discretionary spending Middle Class on-demand convenience aspirational product mobile homescreen Smartphone Silicon Valley Venture Capital 2015 distortion labour market secular stagnation western world wage growth job recovery globalization globalisation squeezed Sozialer Abstieghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:af66c473716b/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/#TOA Interview with Fred Wilson & Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures - YouTube2015-08-30T02:44:42+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_nIgDeOX5Y
asterisk2aEurope Start-Up Scene Berlin Failure incrementalism incremental value creation added Core Product Proposition intangible Mittelstand SME SMB Venture Capital oh hi there world Fred Wilson London Wall Street shareholder profit maximisation book ecosystem distortion asset allocation Germany industrial policy Revolution 2.0 STEM 3D printing Software Is Eating The automation automotive Big Data Robotics business consumer disrupting markets disruption creative destruction Pivot Product/Market Fit traction self-awareness MVP Minimal Viable Lean timing Internet Privacyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:1423a4fa8bfb/#TOA15 Interview with Amit Karp, Ciaran O’Leary, Felix Petersen and Robin Wauters - YouTube2015-08-30T02:01:47+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXkRg7suFCw
asterisk2aBerlin Start-Up Scene ecosystem Venture Capital Europe London Germany Mittelstand SME SMB incrementalism incremental disruption creative destruction Blue Ocean innovator innovation competitive competition competitiveness advantage BMW FinTech autonomous car self-driving cars Exportweltmeister Audi Manufacturing Industrial Revolution 2.0 policy STEM Software Is Eating The World Robotics automation Platform Marketplace Big Data book added value creation banking Core Product Proposition intangible cost of ownership Industry Tesla Motors Apple Google Inc. Alphabet Silicon Valley advice lesson outsider economic history Wall Street short-term view thinking shareholder profit maximisation commodity business commoditization Failure culture stigma 3D printing Siemens SAP automotivehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:545a6d0da5d4/Survivors | Bothsides of the Table2015-08-29T01:27:37+00:00
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2015/07/29/survivors/
asterisk2aFailure entrepreneurship Hustle culture Berlin Start-Up Scene life hacker lesson philosophy adversity pattern matching recognition bias confirmation Venture Capital selection perseverance of You career advice ladder courage character book entrepreneur long-term Networking Gary Vaynerchuk ecosystem communityhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:469444aece9e/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/The Upside of a Downturn in Silicon Valley - The New York Times2015-08-27T20:53:39+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/technology/the-upside-of-a-downturn-in-silicon-valley.html?_r=0
asterisk2aSilicon Valley Venture Capital Ben Horowitz bookhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:fcb8931abfff/Pando: The $13 billion question: Is the dramatic step up in corporate VC cyclical or structural?2015-08-27T01:15:23+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/08/14/13-billion-question-dramatic-step-corporate-vc-cyclical-or-structural/
asterisk2aVenture Capital Intel Microsoft Wireless Carrierhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:3c864621dae1/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/Secret’s Demise and Uber’s Next Potential Acquisition by The Jay & Farhad Show2015-08-24T22:59:31+00:00
https://soundcloud.com/jay-yarow/secrets-demise-and-uber
asterisk2aSecret Venture Capital Google Ventures FOMO Silicon Valley ethical machine termsheet Whisper anonymity pseudonym Trend Hype Cycle Yik Yak Beme Casey Neistat Dennis Crowley foursquare Digg Kevin Rose consumer product Product/Market Fit Bebo AOL Twitter Friendfeed Path Dave Morin Friendster StudiVZhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:67baab5179db/An Analysis Of Zirtual’s Reality And The Perils Of Debt | TechCrunch2015-08-23T17:06:29+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/19/zirtual-reality/
asterisk2aZirtual burn rate runway Venture Capital fundraising operations operation convertible note debt cash flow cash-is-king Start-Up lesson advice CEO CFO financial literacy accounting accountability executionhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:9ebb57cf2a8e/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/Pando: LA venture capital has surged since 2012, but it’s perilously dependent on a few companies2015-08-22T14:11:46+00:00
https://pando.com/2015/08/19/la-venture-capital-has-surged-2012-its-perilously-dependent-few-companies/
asterisk2a> too big to fail ...]]>Venture Capital Snapchat Los Angeles Start-Up Scene ecosystemhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:ab740925745a/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/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/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/Episode 49: The Shortest Interview With Jenny Lee From GGV Capital by analyseasia2015-08-15T23:54:26+00:00
https://soundcloud.com/analyseasia/episode-49-the-shortest-interview-with-jenny-lee-from-ggv-capital
asterisk2aStart-Up lesson advice MVP Minimal Viable Product Product/Market Fit vertical mobile first homescreen Appification phone Venture Capital Asia entrepreneurshiphttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4ab5bc071060/Episode 51: The SoftBank Group With David Corbin by analyseasia | Free Listening on SoundCloud2015-08-15T23:44:03+00:00
https://soundcloud.com/analyseasia/episode-51-the-softbank-group-with-david-corbin
asterisk2aSoftBank Asia Venture Capital Private Equityhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:10212969585b/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/Interview: Passion Capital's Eileen Burbidge2015-08-03T02:21:51+00:00
http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/02/interview-eileen-burbidge/
asterisk2aLondon Start-up Scene Venture Capital lesson advice FinTechhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c4bb03063c0c/Facebook: Gewinn sinkt im zweiten Quartal deutlich - SPIEGEL ONLINE2015-07-30T12:40:03+00:00
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/quartalszahlen-facebooks-gewinn-sinkt-deutlich-a-1045939.html
asterisk2aFacebook Silicon Valley burn rate runway Palo Alto Mountain View London Start-up Scene Venture Capital operations Wall Street mainstreet.org San Francisco war for talenthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c94aa8bab173/ProSiebenSat.1 und Axel Springer: Doch keine Fusion - SPIEGEL ONLINE2015-07-30T12:32:21+00:00
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/fusion-von-prosiebensat-1-und-springer-vom-tisch-a-1045874.html
asterisk2aBerlin Start-Up Scene Axel Springer ProSiebenSat.1 media conglomerate ecosystem Venture Capitalhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:cb95449256a4/Scottish fantasy sport firm FanDuel plans expansion - BBC News2015-07-28T09:04:58+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-33685208
asterisk2a> London Expensive, Silicon Valley (SF, Mountain View, Palo Alto), NY prohibitively expensive to run a start-up out of solely. The next best cities are probably, in UK; Glasgow and Manchester. Edinburgh still more expensive than both and commuting is for most unavoidable. Keep in mind, (1) UK wide housing shortage - lowest rate of new builds over decades, and (2) also quality of life/health lower in noisy polluted over crowded London with the long commute, and (3) Aberdeen is 2nd most expensive city of UK, bc Oil drove up the prices.]]>FanDuel London Start-up Scene Edinburgh Silicon Valley cost of living entry barriers to Venture Capital ecosystem Berlin Manchester UK lesson advice quality life noise pollution air commutinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:35ac9721ef85/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/