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Venture Capital for Long Tail Entrepreneurs
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- Description:
- “Venture Capital for the Long Tail” describes the need for a fundamentally different, economically viable model for creating and funding micro-businesses. Venture capital needs a new model to adapt to declining costs to start businesses, the impact of Generation Y and increased personal and corporate transparency and sharing.
- Questions
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- What are early-stage venture capitalists looking to invest in?
- Why is there a funding gap in seed-stage capital? (is there?)
- Is the "Y-Combinator model" just the new incubator?
- How is the influx of Generation Y changing the workplace?
- Will Generation Y change larger companies or leave to create their own?
- Can large companies learn to adapt their organizational strategies to attract and talent?
- How will companies learn to manage the challenges of collaborative, distributed, outsourced value creation?
- How will the ecosystem of business support services evolve to serve an army of micro-businesses?
- What types of industries will be impacted by the rise of micro-businesses?
- Will micro-businesses in the Long Tail of the economy make enough money to stay in business?
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Business / Entrepreneurial
- Type:
- Panel
- Event:
- SXSW Interactive 2009
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