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Venture
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

Sequoia partner says there's too much venture capital and not enough companies to invest in: 'It's a return-free risk'

Venture capital deploys excess capital relative to the number of high-exit, profitable companies, making industry-wide expected returns unattainable.
fromBig Think
3 weeks ago

Why "outrageous optimism" is your startup super-skill

At one point, Andrew Gazdecki belonged to the second of these two cohorts. "I held on because I was attached," he says of his first company, Bizness Apps, which he sold in 2017. The company, a publishing platform that helps businesses develop mobile apps, began life in 2010, riding the smartphone revolution kickstarted by Apple. When, years later, Bizness Apps began losing customers, and continued losing customers, part of Gazdecki knew it was time to sell. And yet he waited.
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