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		<title>Venture Capital&#8217;s &#8220;Issue&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week Fred Wilson, of Union Square Ventures, wrote a great post that lays out the Venture Capital industry&#8217;s overarching &#8220;issue,&#8221; titled The Venture Capital Math Problem (thanks to Ben Chiang for forwarding).  The article walks through the high level math of the venture capital industry, and explains why the pace of fundraising &#38; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideasphere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2269428&amp;post=83&amp;subd=ideasphere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Parker Emmott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, it&#8217;s been quite a while since I last posted here.  I&#8217;m going to try to re-engage and post more frequently going forward. In the meantime, I recommend giving this podcast with Hal Varian a listen.  Hal Varian is the Chief Economist at Google and is basically the master of the Google ad auction.  He&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideasphere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2269428&amp;post=80&amp;subd=ideasphere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Parker Emmott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that the global economy is in for some tough times, and no category of the economy feels the pains of a downturn more than startups.  With that in mind, I thought I would share some prudent advice that veteran investors are giving their portfolio companies as we head into this downturn. Advice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideasphere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2269428&amp;post=74&amp;subd=ideasphere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Parker Emmott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all of the media attention on the disastrous state of the financial markets and the relentless comparisons to the Great Depression, it is easy to think that the world as we know is coming to an end.  While I cannot pretend to say that we are not in the midst of a severe financial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideasphere.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2269428&amp;post=65&amp;subd=ideasphere&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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