http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/11/02/new-small-scale-vcs/ the Open Business Project Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:42:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/11/02/new-small-scale-vcs/comment-page-1/#comment-123068 OpenBusiness » Blog Archive » Seedcamp Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:49:49 +0000 http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/11/02/new-small-scale-vcs/#comment-123068 [...] OpenBusiness has followed for a while YCombinator’s approach to VC investment and wondererd why nobody in Europe is doing something similar. In a nutshell: Give a small amount of cash, provide lots of mentoring and networking opportunities, take some equity and hope for a big hit. This way YCombinator seeded Digg for example. [...] [...] OpenBusiness has followed for a while YCombinator’s approach to VC investment and wondererd why nobody in Europe is doing something similar. In a nutshell: Give a small amount of cash, provide lots of mentoring and networking opportunities, take some equity and hope for a big hit. This way YCombinator seeded Digg for example. [...]

]]> http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/11/02/new-small-scale-vcs/comment-page-1/#comment-66992 OpenBusiness » Blog Archive » Paul Graham on OpenBusiness Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:00:13 +0000 http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/11/02/new-small-scale-vcs/#comment-66992 [...] I just came again across an article I read a while ago, but never got around to posting it. One of the most inspiring and insightful articles on how business could and should change by learning from Open Source Software has been written by Paul Graham, the founder of YCombinator (we reported about the lean VC model here). [...] [...] I just came again across an article I read a while ago, but never got around to posting it. One of the most inspiring and insightful articles on how business could and should change by learning from Open Source Software has been written by Paul Graham, the founder of YCombinator (we reported about the lean VC model here). [...]

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