In an industry that moves as fast as venture capital, all sorts of ideas can get swept up in the hype machine and quickly crowned as the newest of new things. So it is with recent talk about startup investing. Venture firms and funds, evangelists preach, have to do more than write checks. They must provide services to help their portfolio companies grow, which means offering everything from technology experts to market strategists.
Actually, this is not such a new…
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