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The Early Stage Slump – AVC
When I talk to my friends who do a lot of angel investing, I hear that they are being more selective, licking some wounds, and waiting for liquidit... (2017)
From Bezos to Walton, Big Investors Back Fund for ‘Flyover’ Start-Ups - The New York Times
The fund started by an AOL co-founder and an author has attracted a Who’s Who of American business to invest in the heartland’s entrepreneurs. “... (2017)
Why a Hedge Fund Started a Video Game Competition
Issue 54: The Unspoken - Nautilus “There’s a weird way in which a hedge fund is a confluence of everything. There’s the money of course—Two Sigm... (2017)
Germany’s Chinese investment problem – POLITICO
European firms are being snapped up by China companies, and that’s causing headaches in Berlin. (2016)
Ways to tame your finances - The Washington Post
The man who boiled down wealth strategies onto one index card is back with tips for seniors on fixed incomes and others who need to do more with less. (2017)
The Profit Motive Behind Financial Complexity - Bloomberg
Guess what? When investors don't understand what they're buying, they do worse. “...in his book “Phishing for Phools,” written with fellow Nobel... (2017)
Hometown Heroes: Where And Why Venture Capitalists Invest Close To Home | Crunchbase
Crunchbase News, 2017: “Public market investors have the luxury of being able to make, invest, and move their money anywhere they’d like. But the ... (2017)
Smart Money: How AI Could Make You a Better Investor
Wired, 2017: “Old habits die hard. But as the data we generate allows us to gain a deeper understanding of how we think and behave around money, n... (2017)
Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors
HBR, Harvard Business Review: “Was the company’s focus on lean innovation a failure? Or did investors just get impatient? In fact, what happened ... (2017)
Should you Early Exercise? | Hacker Noon
Medium, Avesh Singh 2017: "Advice on the most important decision you’ll make as an early employee. Should you early-exercise your stock options? ... (2017)
The Line Between Aggressive and Crazy
The story of the Kelly Criterion: the magic formula that can tell investors when to use leverage and how much risk is too much. Suppose I offer you... (2017)
Capital-as-a-Service: A New Operating System for Early Stage Investing
At Social Capital, we’re most excited about entrepreneurs that challenge assumptions, that take a non-consensus view of the world, and then… (2017)
WHY DO STARTUPS FAIL? BECAUSE HARDWARE IS HARD
Wired Magazine, 2017: "Venture funding for hardware startups hit an eight-year high in 2016, with investors pouring $4.4 billion into 624 startups,... (2017)
The Venture Capital Math Problem | AVC, Fred Wilson
From AVC, Fred Wilson: The venture capital math problem is pretty basic, maybe something you'd do in high school calculus or even pre-calculus. He... (2017)
Here’s How Likely Your Startup Is To Get Acquired At Any Stage | Crunchbase
Crunchbase: "Let’s say you randomly selected 1000 seed-stage startups based in the United States. How many of those would go on to raise a Series A... (2017)
The Challenge of The Ideal First Round Term Sheet | Brad Feld
from Brad Feld: Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture... (2009)
Venture Capital Deal Algebra | Feld Thoughts
Feld Thoughts, July 7, 2004: Venture Capital Deal Algebra: I’ve found that even sophisticated entrepreneurs didn’t necessary grasp how valuation ma... (2004)
Equity sharing: SAFE FINANCING DOCUMENTS | YCombinator
YCombinator documents for startups: SAFE FINANCING DOCUMENTS The safe (simple agreement for future equity) is intended to replace convertible n... (2017)
Equator closes $55M fund to bring more private capital to African climate tech | TechCrunch
Equator, a climate tech VC firm, closes first fund at $55 million to support seed and Series A startups in energy, agriculture, and mobility. (2025)
The 'valley of death' for climate lies between early-stage funding and scaling up | TechCrunch
It's easier for climate companies to get enough funding to get started. It's much harder once they need money to scale. (2024)
FIRECalc: A different kind of retirement calculator
Thinking of chucking it all and retiring early, long before you startgetting a pension or Social Security, and before you have ready access to your... (2024)
EB-5 visa program: The Rural Ski Slope Caught Up in an International Scam | The New Yorker
A federal program promised to bring foreign investment to remote parts of the country. It soon became rife with fraud. Sheelah Kolhatkar reports. ... (2024)
How Does the World’s Largest Hedge Fund Really Make Its Money? - The New York Times
Ray Dalio’s investing tactics have always been a closely kept secret, even inside Bridgewater Associates. Several years ago, some of Wall Street’s ... (2023)
It is make or break for Intel’s giant bet on Germany
The American chipmaker’s capital spending would constitute the biggest foreign direct investment in German history | Business (2023)
Trade and Geopolitics; enter the investment police. America’s plan to vet investments into China
Citing national security, America’s government considers tighter rules on outbound capital | Business Placing limits on America’s globetrotting ... (2023)
Interest rates: LIBOR will at last be switched off in June
The scandal-ridden benchmark is a relic of a previous era. By 2012 LIBOR set the rates for contracts governing some $550 trillion, more than seven ... (2023)
How to invest in artificial intelligence. Machine earning
How to invest in artificial intelligence; Private startups or public markets? Lots of the value of revolutionary innovation is often captured by ex... (2023)
America Inc. - The Economist
From semiconductors to electric vehicles, the American government is going into business | United States Joe Biden’s industrial policy is big, b... (2022)
Opinion | Business beware, ‘stakeholder’ capitalism is parasitic progressivism - George Will, The Washington Post
ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing appeals to people for whom mere business – the creation of wealth and opportunity – lacks the ... (2022)
Why Does Pessimism Sound So Smart? | The Motley Fool
Especially when things are so good. This goes beyond investing. Harvard professor Teresa Amabile shows that those publishing negative book revi... (2016)
The 10 Pieces Of A Successful Pitch Deck | CEO, Hatch Labs
From Founder CEO of Hatch Labs (2017)
Mexico’s $7.5B Gamble to Disrupt the Panama Canal | WSJ Breaking Ground
Mexico’s $7.5 billion interoceanic corridor aims to ease a major chokehold in a global shipping mess and rival the Panama Canal. The stretch of lan... (2024)
Using real estate investing, This attorney plans to retire by 42 and live virtually tax-free | FIRE Starters
Seattle attorney Sylvia Hall worked off six figures in student debt on her path to financial independence. Now, she plans to use real estate to pay... (2024)
The end of globalization? How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act IRA changed the world | FT Film
The US was for decades the exemplar of free market globalisation. That changed with Donald Trump’s 'America first' agenda. President Joe Biden’s la... (2023)
Green Hydrogen in Namibia: This $10BN Desert Megaproject is a Game Changer
This project is worth the same as the country's entire GDP.Correction: The map at 3:41 shows the Walvis Bay. The Port of Luderitz is located furthe... (2023)
NSF's merit review process determines which research has the greatest potential
NSF receives about 50,000 research proposals every year. The Foundation's mission is to promote the progress of science, but it's able to support o... (2022)
Value Investing - Aswath Damodaran
Many investors, when asked to describe their investment philosophies, almost reflexively describe themselves as value investors. While some of that... (2020)
The Black Swan Event: Funding in the time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster
YouTube - Streamed April 22, 2020 The Black Swan Event: Funding in the time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (2020)
How Investors Think About Ideas - Kevin Hale - Y Combinator
Y Combinator Published on Feb 27, 2019 Kevin Hale on how investors think about ideas. Kevin is Visiting Partner at YC. Prior YC Kevin was the ... (2019)
How Private Equity Avoids Tax - WSJ
Financial News explains some of the main tactics used by experts in the private equity industry to minimise tax bills. Subscribe to the WSJ channel... (2019)
A Conversation with Andy Bromberg - Moderated by Geoff Ralston || YCombinator
YC Partner Geoff Ralston talks to CoinList Co-Founder and President Andy Bromberg. Transcript and additional content are here: https://www.startups... (2018)
Index Funds vs. Actively Managed Mutual Funds? - introduction (both sides) - Kiplinger
Should you invest in index funds or actively managed mutual funds? Kiplinger has the answer. (2018)
Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder CEO Social Capital, on Money as Instrument of Change | Stanford
Stanford Graduate School of Business Published on Nov 13, 2017 During his View From The Top talk, Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and CEO of Soci... (2018)
Morgan Housel - The Psychology of Money - Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby on Spotify. Morgan Housel is one of the world's foremost leaders on all thin... (2022)
Can Corporations Stop Climate Change? - The Daily podcast
One letter to executives around the world has prioritized climate change on corporate agendas. But will this make a difference without government r... (2020)
a16z Podcast: Innovating in Bets – Andreessen Horowitz
Every organization, whether small or big, early or late stage — and every individual, whether for themselves or others — makes countless decisions ... (2019)
a16z Podcast: Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories by a16z
Stream a16z Podcast: Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories by a16z from desktop or your mobile device (2018)
a16z Podcast: Real Estate — Ownership, Asset, Economy – Andreessen Horowitz
The largest asset class in the United States is owner-occupied real estate, yet options for homeowners accessing this are very binary right now: ei... (2017)
Why Investing In Decentralized Platforms Requires A New Mental Model
Why Crypto Is The Biggest Disruptor To Hit VC In A Decade, The State of Crypto Today & Why Investing In Decentralized Platforms Requires A New Ment... (2018)
Berkshire Hathaway: (podcast) “Warren Buffett loses his touch” | The Economist on Spotify
Berkshire Hathaway has evolved into an acquisition engine of large industrial companies. Unfortunately, the returns look pedestrian (2018)
The Psychology of Money - by Morgan Housel
Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.... (2022)
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football history: With 26 seconds remaining, and traili... (2019)
Compensation and Equity Calculator - Front
This is a tool we built at Front to improve the level of transparency we provide to candidates whom we end up making an offer to. You can read more... (2018)
StartEngine: Equity Crowdfunding & Investment Opportunities
StartEngine is One of The Nation's Leading Equity Crowdfunding Platforms. StartEngine Allows Everyday People The Opportunity to Invest Online a... (2018)