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Monday, January 22, 2018

From the Investors 

Semil Shah of Haystack explains the "reset" that happend in the venture ecosystem and the normilzation of the term "pre-seed" investing in "The 2018 Seed Stage Reset

Esteban Reyes of Las Olas VC breaks down the perception of what it takes to be an effective VC in "Operating a VC firm, boring?"

Y Combinator is accepting applications for the Summer 2018 funding cycle.

Matt Ward of the Syndicate asks you to reevaluate the first 10 seconds of your pitch to investors in "The Memorable Elevator Pitch that VCs Can't Ignore"

From the Operators 

Matt Cimaglia of Cimaglia Productions warns entreprenuers not to see failure as a dead end and provides key takeaways from his former ventures in "How I Transformed My Business Failures Into Strengths"

Mike Reynolds of Innovatemap explains the shift in B2B and how this new style of tech adoption within organizations is making way for a different strategy in "The Future of B2B Software is B2U"

George Visan of Sprout advocates for implementing more and strategizing less in "The Side Effect of Nothing"

 

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