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It may be a surprise to hear this from a venture capitalist, but the vast majority of startups should not take money from our industry. The history of entrepreneurship is the history of owner-managers with no outside shareholders. Indeed the data shows just how few startups take venture capital - one in every 2,000 startups in the US. 
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For years, the venture capital industry has lavished money on Silicon Valley and Asia. Now, Europe is getting some love.
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Pros and cons of online sharing businesses such as Uber and Airbnb
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Peter Thiel, the “don” of the Paypal Mafia has a new book out called Zero to One, based on his Stanford Startup course. It is an excellent book, both insightful and practical, and anyone who’s interested in creating a business should read it.
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VENTURE capitalists do not often shower nine-figure sums on French startups. That alone makes noteworthy the announcement on July 2nd that BlaBlaCar, an eight-year-old ride-sharing company from Paris, had raised $100m. Preqin, a research firm, says that only one other French firm has attracted more in one go in at least seven years. Just three other European startups have struck it so rich in 2014.
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Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and co-creator of the early web browser Mosaic, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how success in venture capital is more about winners that you missed and not losers that you backed.
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Or, how to make money for Silicon Valley venture capitalists while pretending to espouse progressive ideals
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This week, the demands of growth and venture capitalism drive leading sharing economy companies ever further from actual sharing. (I love Airbnb's service but I've also always thought that "sharing" was a misleading description.
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Most people who want to build something independently make this trade-off: they give off pieces of independence to access to the capital and networks that venture capital can provide. Because venture does provide a lot of good things to a bunch of really great companies.
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“* Readers at Shareable are interested in developing a sharing economy that can benefit everyone equally — the end users in the economy every bit as much as the corporate players, and enrich the communities they act in rather than extracting everything. Is that possible with the peer economy? It’d be hard to argue that Uber does that. Uber is extracting the money — the equity — for their shareholders.
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Jim Fowler, founder and CEO of Owler: If you're building a crowdsourced business, money is a bad motivator. What your crowd really wants is ownership. I’m not talking about shares of stock.
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Twitter. Facebook. AirBnB. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the $4.2 billion venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has backed them all -- along with dozens of others. His latest project? Upending finance. Bloomberg Markets magazine interviewed Andreessen at the firm’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
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Richard Branson is already pretty well-versed in the airline industry. Now the business mogul is investing some dough into drones.
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rguably the two biggest economic stories of the last decade are the Great Recession and the rise of a category of new businesses that turn noncommercial capital and individuals’ spare time into valuable commercial assets. It’s too early to say which will have the greater lasting impact in fifty years’ time, but there’s a strong case to be made for the latter.
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Quite recently I’ve had the chance to participate to Pisa’s Internet Festival, one of the biggest Italian event about the Internet (as per the name). I was the curator of an entire conference afternoon that was dedicated to the theme of the sharing economy (or the collaborative economy as I very much more like to call it lately).
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Couchsurfing made a deal with the devil – venture capital money – and lost its base. It’s a lesson to any social network that aims to connect people in meaningful ways.
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