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24 alternatives to The Twenty Minute VC: John Borthwick

Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient?

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Twenty Minute VC: John Borthwick launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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The Twenty Minute VC: Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight▲62
Why the whole VC industry is backward looking
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Michael Skok, Managing Partner @ Underscore VC▲63
Valuation is a stupid concept & VC is ripe for disruption
2016 · its alternatives →
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Twenty Minute VC: Dave Morin, Slow Ventures▲65
Why building a fund is like a company
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC (podcast)▲286
Learn about venture capital, startup funding and the pitch
2015 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Matt Ocko, Co-Managing Partner @ Data Collective▲75
Why all fund size models are wrong
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Dave McClure, Founding Partner @ 500 Startups▲75
Why ownership is not the math to think about when investing
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Henry Ward, Founder & CEO @ eShares▲64
Why VC Portfolio Theory Is Wrong?
2017 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Josh Stein, Partner @ DFJ▲56
Why VCs must adapt to their founders
2017 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund▲58
Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch?
2017 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Ben Lerer, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures▲63
Avoiding FOMO and developing pattern recognition
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Sean Brecker, CEO @ Headspace▲72
How to maximise engagement and retention on mobile
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: James Cham, Partner @ Bloomberg Beta▲61
The greenfield opportunities for machine learning
2016 · its alternatives →
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VC Club▲130
The Venture Capital community on Slack
2015 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Jeff Busgang, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Flybridge Capital▲73
Why it is not all about unit economics
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Jerry Colonna▲61
How investors mimic aggressive behaviour to cover insecurity
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Josh Udashkin @ Raden▲71
Why great VCs know the opportunity in hardware
2016 · its alternatives →
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Startup Value▲325
Value your startup like a VC in 3 minutes
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Steve Schlafman @ RRE Ventures▲66
The gap between seed & series A
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital▲75
What it takes to raise a VC fund
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Peter Pham, Co-Founder @ Science Inc▲61
Why the battle between entrepreneurs & VC is unfair
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Sarah Guo, Investor @ Greylock▲70
Why conversational will be the next big thing?
2017 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Rudina Seseri, Founder & Managing Director @ Glasswing Ventures▲59
Is there a true incumbency advantage in AI?
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Emily Melton, Partner @ DFJ▲57
Why investors should be ary of investing from patterns
2017 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Ryan Petersen, Founder & CEO @ Flexport▲68
Why investor relations are overrated
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