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Emerging Manager Fund of Funds
This document was originally composed as part of the Carolina Venture Fellows program in 2004. It was also used by Parish Capital in some of our early marketing materials. Introduction: The universe...
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Andreessen Horowitz’s Missed Opportunity to Change VC Fee Structure
The fees that LPs pay to venture capitalists will only change if a top-tier VC fund volunteers to give its investors a discount. We’ll never know what would have happened had Andreessen Horowitz taken...
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Define the Mission, then the Vehicle
Start with the mission, not with the vehicle. Pat Duggins’ book Final Countdown, which documents NASA’s move to shutdown the Space Shuttle Program repeats an important aviation and aerospace maxim: The...
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Fraud in Industrial Technologies
Go on, take the money and run. GigaOm’s article on green energy snake oil highlights the challenges faced by investors in any industrial technology. We’re not investors, but over the past six years of...
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Tech Forecasting and Predictions 2015 (4 of 7)
After listening to six years of tech prediction shows – it seemed only fair to add my own predictions based on industrial and slower moving technologies. I’m attempting to follow the rules as laid...
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Biology, populations and VC
The meadow voles we found each morning in our traps were tiny, hardy animals who endured the weighing and tagging before being re-released. There were thousands of them in the fields of Blandy Farm or...
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