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Here’s a link to the deck I presented, as well as some further reading about Zebras, Unicorns and alternative capital.

FURTHER READING

New York Times: More Start-Ups Have an Unfamiliar Message for Venture Capitalists: Get Lost

Wall Street Journal: Venture Capital and Its Discontents

Recode: Why venture capital doesn’t work for everyone

The Economist: The wave of unicorn IPOs reveals Silicon Valley’s groupthink

Fortune: ‘The Cheap Money Era’: 2019’s IPOs Have Delivered Some Harsh Lessons to Venture Capital

American Affairs Journal: Uber’s Path of Destruction

Buffer: We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It

Zebras Unite: Zebras Fix What Unicorns Break

Inc: American Entrepreneurship Is Actually Vanishing. Here's Why

Strong Words: Indie VC v3 Terms

Village Capital: Alternative Investment Strategies to Drive Inclusive Innovation

Entrepreneur: Out of $85 Billion in VC Funding Last Year, Only 2.2 Percent Went to Female Founders. And Every Year, Women of Color Get Less Than 1 Percent of Total Funding

New Partnership With Village Capital and Additional Foundation Funding for Zebras Unite Releases the Potential of Impact-Oriented Entrepreneurs

We Have Met the Enemy…and He is Us: Lessons from Twenty Years of the Kauffman Foundation's Investments in Venture Capital Funds and the Triumph of Hope Over Experience

WHO IS EXPERIMENTING IN THIS SPACE

IndieVC

Village Capital

Candide Group

Earnest Capital

Lighter Capital

Decathlon Capital Partners

Corl

Bigfoot Capital

Alternative Capital