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	<title>Comments on: What Is Really Happening to the Venture Capital Industry?</title>
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	<description>...focusing on the evolution and economics of high technology business and strategy.  By day, I am a venture capitalist at Benchmark Capital.</description>
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		<title>By: Stacey Colon</title>
		<link>http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/24/what-is-really-happening-to-the-venture-capital-industry/#comment-1805</link>
		<dc:creator>Stacey Colon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 01:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If only I had a greenback for every time I came here... Incredible read.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If only I had a greenback for every time I came here&#8230; Incredible read.</p>
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		<title>By: Top 50 &#187; Top 50 Venture Capital Blog Posts of 2009</title>
		<link>http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/24/what-is-really-happening-to-the-venture-capital-industry/#comment-1766</link>
		<dc:creator>Top 50 &#187; Top 50 Venture Capital Blog Posts of 2009</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 06:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] What is Really Happening to the Venture Capital Industry [...]</description>
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		<title>By: The Presage of Human Preconceptions; DotCompost2.0 Looms &#187; heur-e-ka</title>
		<link>http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/24/what-is-really-happening-to-the-venture-capital-industry/#comment-1764</link>
		<dc:creator>The Presage of Human Preconceptions; DotCompost2.0 Looms &#187; heur-e-ka</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 23:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] true content-and-user-connectivity, we might actually get a shot come January, 2011 when the doubling-down VC&#8217;s who took a bath a few months earlier are realizing that the only thing worse to a VC [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] true content-and-user-connectivity, we might actually get a shot come January, 2011 when the doubling-down VC&#8217;s who took a bath a few months earlier are realizing that the only thing worse to a VC [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Sweat Equity as Alternative Funding Model &#124; Koykee.com</title>
		<link>http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/24/what-is-really-happening-to-the-venture-capital-industry/#comment-1757</link>
		<dc:creator>Sweat Equity as Alternative Funding Model &#124; Koykee.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 08:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Seth Levine has an interesting article firing back at the Business Week article on How Venture Capital Lost it&#8217;s Way. Here&#8217;s another from Fred Wilson earlier this year on the math of venture capital. And Above the Crowd with his post on Asset Allocation and Venture Capital. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Seth Levine has an interesting article firing back at the Business Week article on How Venture Capital Lost it&#8217;s Way. Here&#8217;s another from Fred Wilson earlier this year on the math of venture capital. And Above the Crowd with his post on Asset Allocation and Venture Capital. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Sweat Equity as Alternative Funding Model &#124; 888 News</title>
		<link>http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/24/what-is-really-happening-to-the-venture-capital-industry/#comment-1685</link>
		<dc:creator>Sweat Equity as Alternative Funding Model &#124; 888 News</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Seth Levine has an interesting article firing back at the Business Week article on How Venture Capital Lost it&#8217;s Way. Here&#8217;s another from Fred Wilson earlier this year on the math of venture capital. And Above the Crowd with his post on Asset Allocation and Venture Capital. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Seth Levine has an interesting article firing back at the Business Week article on How Venture Capital Lost it&#8217;s Way. Here&#8217;s another from Fred Wilson earlier this year on the math of venture capital. And Above the Crowd with his post on Asset Allocation and Venture Capital. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: New Seed and Start-Up Funding Model? &#171; 3Strides</title>
		<link>http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/24/what-is-really-happening-to-the-venture-capital-industry/#comment-1684</link>
		<dc:creator>New Seed and Start-Up Funding Model? &#171; 3Strides</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] impact on all those reliant on VC funding. A few months back, Bill Gurley(1) at Benchmark Capital had an excellent primer at his blog explaining the dynamics behind why he felt the venture industry ... Essentially, because the big LPs that fund most VCs got hammered on their overall investment [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] impact on all those reliant on VC funding. A few months back, Bill Gurley(1) at Benchmark Capital had an excellent primer at his blog explaining the dynamics behind why he felt the venture industry &#8230; Essentially, because the big LPs that fund most VCs got hammered on their overall investment [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Is There Need for a New Model for Seed and Start-Up Funding? &#171; 3Strides</title>
		<link>http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/24/what-is-really-happening-to-the-venture-capital-industry/#comment-1681</link>
		<dc:creator>Is There Need for a New Model for Seed and Start-Up Funding? &#171; 3Strides</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] impact on all those reliant on VC funding. A few months back, Bill Gurley(1) at Benchmark Capital had an excellent primer at his blog explaining the dynamics behind why he felt the venture industry ... Essentially, because the big LPs that fund most VCs got hammered on their overall investment [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] impact on all those reliant on VC funding. A few months back, Bill Gurley(1) at Benchmark Capital had an excellent primer at his blog explaining the dynamics behind why he felt the venture industry &#8230; Essentially, because the big LPs that fund most VCs got hammered on their overall investment [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Don Hecker Lawyer Headlines &#187; Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies</title>
		<link>http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/24/what-is-really-happening-to-the-venture-capital-industry/#comment-1668</link>
		<dc:creator>Don Hecker Lawyer Headlines &#187; Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Bill Gurley writes: There are many reasons to believe that a reduction in the size of the VC industry will be healthy [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Bill Gurley writes: There are many reasons to believe that a reduction in the size of the VC industry will be healthy [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies cdixon.org &#8211; chris dixon&#39;s blog</title>
		<link>http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/24/what-is-really-happening-to-the-venture-capital-industry/#comment-1588</link>
		<dc:creator>Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies cdixon.org &#8211; chris dixon&#39;s blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Bill Gurley, writes: There are many reasons to believe that a reduction in the size of the VC industry will be healthy [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Bill Gurley, writes: There are many reasons to believe that a reduction in the size of the VC industry will be healthy [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Rosella Cooper</title>
		<link>http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/24/what-is-really-happening-to-the-venture-capital-industry/#comment-1553</link>
		<dc:creator>Rosella Cooper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I Will have to come back again when my class load lets up - even so I am taking your RSS feed so I can read your site offline. Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I Will have to come back again when my class load lets up &#8211; even so I am taking your RSS feed so I can read your site offline. Thanks.</p>
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