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  Ernestine Fu: All You Need to Know About Venture Capital

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  MS&E 476: Entrepreneurship through the Lens of Venture Capital Ernestine Fu is an angel investor in Silicon Valley, partner at venture capital firm Alsop Louie Partners, and instructor at Stanford University. In this talk, Ernestine discusses the foundations of venture capital from the perspective of an investor and entrepreneur, respectively: getting into venture capital, dynamics of negotiating a financing round, finding investment opportunities, term sheet basics, portfolio management, venture firm governance, and GP/LP dynamics. Course Description: We often discuss how technology is reinvented and disrupted, but there is also a good amount of change occurring within the venture capital industry. Within the past several decades there have been new entrants, from incubators to angels to different models of venture capital. The course explores changes in the venture capital industry: from the rise of Sand Hill Road and investing in the dot-com bubble, to incubators and accelerators, equity crowdfunding platform, and different models of venture capital today.

• Alphabet Inc. failed to properly manage online security for their Google+ project, and now the company is planning on ending consumer operations permanently. https://crescentvale.com/2018/10/google-announces-the-end-of-google-after-a-data-breach/

  

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  How corporations and startups can more effectively work with one another

  TechCrunch - Maria Palma

  Build versus buy? Potential partner or potential disruptor? The option set for corporations to collaborate with startups used to be simpler. Today, the options seem almost endless: build, partner, buy, integrate with their APIs, co-develop product together, white-label a part of their technology, …

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  Uber snaps up bike-share company Jump

  newatlas.com - By Nick Lavars

  It built its success on cars, but Uber hasn't been afraid to explore other forms of transport as it looks to stay ahead of the game, like flying …

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  Here's how much the average San Francisco wedding costs

  SFGate - Alyssa Pereira

  Are couples getting fed up with the high cost of weddings? Sure seems like it. That would at least be one way to describe the noticeable year-over-year dip in the average cost of an American wedding, as compiled by wedding publication The Knot. In 2016, the standard wedding cost marrying couples and …

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