{"id":16201,"date":"2014-11-14T04:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=16201"},"modified":"2015-02-17T13:28:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:28:32","slug":"whats-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/whats-old-is-new-again\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Old Is New Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I\u2019m getting old.<\/strong> I remember in 2007 when the idea of a super angel appeared, where successful entrepreneurs were suddenly angel investors making 10 or more seed investments a year. This was a \u201cnew\u201d innovation that was celebrated with much fanfare.<\/p>\n

Between 1994 and 1996 I made 40 angel investments with the money I made from the sale of my first company. I was referred to as an \u201cangel investor\u201d \u2013 I didn\u2019t get the super angel moniker back in the 1990s, but I was often referred to as promiscuous.<\/p>\n

Every day I\u2019m reading about a new thing in the startup world. Big corporations are splitting in two or spinning off divisions that are being funded by VC firms. The amount of VC investment each quarter is growing, with us now in the $10 billion \/ quarter zone, rather than the $10 billion a year zone. Strategic investment is in vogue again, with virtually every large public company trying to figure out how to fund startups. Hedge funds are once again allocating big money to private companies and lots of cross-over public company investors are trying to get large dollars into private companies pre-IPO.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s old is new again. As we know from BSG, \u201cAll this has happened before, and all this will happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t live history, but study it. Remember it. And make better decisions and choices the next time around.<\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are definitely new and interesting things happening this time around. If you haven\u2019t noticed AngelList<\/a>, you are missing what I think is one of the most interesting phenomenons around. And I\u2019m deep in another one, Techstars<\/a>, which has helped spread the mentor-driven accelerator model around the world.<\/p>\n

Every cycle has a different tempo. We are in a very positive part of the current cycle. But it\u2019s a cycle, and we know that by definition we are likely to have too much, and then a correction, and then too little. Welcome to life.<\/p>\n

This part of the cycle always makes me uncomfortable. I love innovation, but when things that have been done before get talked about as though they are new, and no one bothers to try to remember what happened, why it happened, and what went off the rails, that\u2019s uncomfortable to me.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t live history, but study it. Remember it. And make better decisions and choices the next time around.<\/p>\n

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This post originally appeared on Bred Feld’s blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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