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Lee Hower
Personal blog · agilevc.com/blogstartupsbusiness
Lee Hower writes AGILEVC, a personal blog at agilevc.com about startups and business. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A commenter cites a diagram from this blog to explain how venture funds work in a discussion of venture capital self-dealing. Nothing in the comments judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Lee Hower is a co-founder & partner of NextView Ventures, which is a U.S. seed-stage VC firm that invests in founders redesigning the Everyday Economy.
What Hacker News says?
Money that comes easily, goes easily. Where did the VCs get the money from [1][2]? If they didn't break a sweat, they won't hesitate to throw it around without asking questions about profitability. EDIT: People who are downvoting are trying to hide the truth of the market, whether it's a bubble or not, this is the source of the money and in turn, your livelihood ;) [1] Probably from banks who got it from the gov't w…
Comment linking /blog/2014/10/29/where-do-venture-capital-dollars-actually-come-from/
on “Startups Once Showered with Cash Now Have to Work for It”Submitted Not Everyone Is “Killing” It: How and When to Admit It as a story · 44 points
HN discussionDepending on the fund it does. This diagram explains it: http://www.agilevc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Startup-Ca...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Startup-Capital-Supply-Chain-NextView-Ventures.png
on “Venture capital has a self-dealing problem”Submitted Playing Startup as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Mobile Payments Companies Have Never Worked as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where Do Venture Capital Dollars Actually Come From? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Does Zynga Become a Value Stock? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like... Billions in 30 Months as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Valuation Doesn't Matter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] as a story · 1 points
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