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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. If you have an idea to apply mature technology to a well-understood problem, it’s relatively easy to get it financed. Back east, established firms worked with big banks to launch new enterprises.

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If Crowdfunding is the New Day Trading, Look Out

Harvard Business Review

In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued that crowdfunding will be the new day trading, the latest financial innovation to “cut costs and [drive] wider participation in a previously closed and clubby market.” Not everyone agrees.