A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 13, 2020

I used this title for possibly the most regrettable blog post I have written on AVC back in 2011. Alex starts off his post with this assertion: 2019 was the year when VCs and startup founders soured on paid acquisition. My friend Alex’s post on the topic this weekend has made me revisit my thoughts on the subject of marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” Across more than 10 years we have kept the size of our Seed investments between $2–3.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While on a sabbatical in Costa Rica dedicated to recharging his mental and physical health, which included a 10-day silent meditation retreat, something began to shift for him. “I and more articles from the EO blog. Before I knew it, I was completely burnt out.” Lennert exited the design business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 2, 2020

For tips and guidance on the topic, we recently talked with Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) members who launched podcasts in 2019. He kicked off his daily podcast in early 2019. To keep the format compatible with flash briefings, each episode needs to be less than 10 minutes.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 26, 2022

I want to be 2019 Jeff Bezos. your YouTube channel, Instagram page, or blog. Start by pumping out articles on your blog. Canva uses their blog as a lead magnet for their card-making tools. Don’t monetize until you reach 10–20k followers on any one platform. Looking back, I know my mistake.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

However, comments from Walmart CEO John Furner in a blog post published Thursday suggest that laser focus continues to widen beyond robotaxis and San Francisco. For instance, Cruise and DoorDash completed in 2019 a delivery pilot in San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Modi and co-founder Sarah Hardy started the company in 2019 to develop a European-style infant formula manufactured in the U.S. Modi blogged about the recall recently, and told me it was “quite a humbling and harrowing journey.”. “We had been heads down on growth and innovation, and what is clear is we have hit product-market fit.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I wrote a blog post a week or so before my GSEA about impostor syndrome. Check out how to get involved as a mentor at 2019 EO GSEA Global Finals. . In the end, I met up with about 10 GSEA and EO people during travels from Dublin to Amsterdam, to Athens, to Cairo, to Tel Aviv, to Bahrain, to Colombo, and then Perth!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 4, 2022

This was the first in-person GLC since 2019. and more articles from the EO blog. . The post Top 10 Aha! Smith says your brand becomes that big by aligning with a societal shift. You can’t predict it, but you can be ready for it. We need human touch and connection . Entrepreneurs are a force for good. Ethan authored the No.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The VC firm also led SeedFi’s $4 million seed funding when it was founded in March of 2019. It launched in private beta in 2019, and helped its initial customers build more than $500,000 in savings — even during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a blog post, she shares an example of how SeedFi works.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

. “It also treats employee communication channels as the rails upon which to orchestrate management practices across an organization [by delivering] a library of management playbooks,” Ulevitch wrote in a blog post announcing the investment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

In December 2019, they started Altro — which started out as Perch Credit — and began hunkering down in a Hacker House with a few others to build out a platform that finds a person’s recurring transactions and connects them to a trade line that it reports to all three credit bureaus. By the time it raised its $2.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

When looking for a recipe, you could limit searches to only a list of your favorite food blogs. And because you can use extensions together, you could also block the ads on the food blogs and then swipe over to view the site in a “reader mode.” ” Image Credits: Insight. How this all works is up to you.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

For example, Bigfoot Capital open-sourced its RBI model, outlining it in a blog post and sharing their RBI financial model and anonymized term sheet , but a thorough, quantitative, industry-wide analysis has not been conducted until now. In the last 10 years alone, 25 RBI firms have been founded.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It’s gone from adding about $100,000 a month in net new revenue in early 2019 to now adding more than $1 million a month in net new revenue, according to Schneble. We’ve grown about 10 times in the past 18 months or so, and we’re not going to stop here,” he told TechCrunch. Human Interest’s growth has been impressive.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In 2019, the value of arts and cultural production in the U.S. For startups wishing to build their brand and cement their place in the local community, employing the skills of artists and supporting public art projects can be an excellent means of doing so. Shutterstock. In the UK, arts and culture contributed £10.47 billion to the economy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 7, 2019

I remember a woman on my team who badly wanted to have an assistant, even though she was probably 10 years away from having one. The post History, Hoops and Happiness: Focus on Finding Your Own Path appeared first on THE BLOG. Don’t look left or right. Pacing happens for a reason. Your career path is uniquely yours.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Consumers buying Samsung’s products and services through either of the cards will get 10% cash back “round the year,” the company executives said at an event in New Delhi. Since then, the company has put together a small team of 10 people and started working on its iOS app. Read more on the company’s blog post here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

in 2019, which Morvitz co-founded with long-time friend and travel expert Tiffany Funk, who had previously worked in executive roles at luxury travel blog One Mile at a Time and consulting service PointsPros. That led to the creation of point.me

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Food halls are a major trend in the restaurant industry and we are currently working to open the Budd Dairy Food Hall in the spring of 2019 in Columbus’ Italian Village community which will feature 8 to 10 entrepreneurial, chef-driven restaurant concepts. Mitchell Hall is expected to be completed by fall 2019.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

million carriers, 95% of which operate 10 or fewer trucks 2. When matching a shipper to a carrier, brokers must take into account at least 10 attributes (e.g., In 2019, the American Trucking Association recorded a shortage of 60,000 freight drivers. Convoy prioritized the top 10% of lanes serviced by the two large shippers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2020

One of the biggest dangers for entrepreneurs comes when their enterprise grows from being a small shop of 10 people to a midsized company of 100 or more. Imagine you flipped a coin 10 times, 100 times, 1,000 times, 10,000 times, and then 100,000 times. Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky. To illustrate why, let me tell you a story.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 16, 2021

In 2019, pet owners spent an average of $29.3 Lemonade Has Plans Starting as Low as $10 a Month for Dogs and Cats. appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Lemonade Has Plans Starting as Low as $10 a Month for Dogs and Cats. appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. billion on veterinary care and products. Read more here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

From 24–27 October 2018, the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference was held in Denver, Colorado and welcomed more than 60 EO members from 10 countries, 29 chapters and nine regions. I’m already looking forward to the MyEO DX 2019 event! The MyEO Deal Exchange platform is now live and can be accessed through the MyEO page.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sage launched its first fund in 2019 and has actively evangelized for the RFC model of investment in many gatherings across the country since then. The IRR drops to about 26% if we wait 10 years for our return. We launched our first fund in Q4 2019 and have invested $5.6 million in 20 deals as of June 2023.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2021

In 2019, the United States’ Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received more than 650,000 reports of identity fraud. It should flag anything that displays one of the 10 warning signs for further scrutiny. Expedited shipping requests 10. and more articles from the EO blog. . First-time shoppers and new customers 2.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 16, 2020

These loans amortize over 10 years and the interest rate is 7 percent. If you are interested in one of these loans, it would be wise to file your 2019 tax returns as soon as possible, as this could make a difference in being approved. There are no prepayment penalties, and no lien on a house—if the loan is US$350,000 or less.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 22, 2019

I saw this tweet this morning from Luis, Duolingo’s founder and CEO: Super proud that the Duolingo English Test ( @DuolingoENTest ) is now fully accepted as a proof of English proficiency at 10 of the top 20 US universities according to US News. Luis von Ahn (@LuisvonAhn) August 21, 2019. There is a virtue in patience.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 9, 2019

Judy saw the notice about the 10-Week Business Startup Boot Camp in Ben Franklin’s newsletter and called the Program Manager, Bob Dornich, to inquire if there was a seat available. But, there’s no age requirement on budding innovators, and we are excited to hear their graduation “pitch” on May 21, 2019.”.

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David Teten VC

MAY 16, 2017

I particularly like OpenLP.com , Origins , and the Raise blog , all of which include content from multiple LPs. . Samir Kaji: 2019 Venture Limited Partner survey includes list of most active LPs. Chris Douvos is almost certainly the LP who has been blogging the longest, at SuperLP.com. 2019 Venture Limited Partner survey.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Over the years, the company managed to raise $12 million, including a $10 million Series A led by GV (Google Ventures) back in 2017. Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth noted in a blog post that the project simply wasn’t able to achieve profitability. According to Crunchbase, Nuzzel had raised $5.1

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

And that’s what we had the chance to do in early 2019 when Kate Stern joined Homebrew. Homebrew: Looking back at our “ Welcome Kate ” blog post three years ago, what were you thinking at the time. During this period we, and the Homebrew founders, have benefited tremendously from Kate’s work.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 13, 2020

Hot on the heels of Beyond Meat, the plant-based burger company that scored the most successful IPO of 2019 , I see the beginnings of a non-dairy milk war. In July, Blackstone, Oprah Winfrey, Natalie Portman, Howard Schultz and Jay-Z’s Roc Nation took a 10% stake in the Swedish oat milk company Oatly at a $2 billion valuation.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In his 28 years there, Amichai worked at all levels of the organization, including as CFO for nine years (2000-2009), and COO and President for 10 years (2009-2019). From February 2019 until his retirement, Amichai led Orbotech through its acquisition by KLA. Read more here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 8, 2022

In 2019, 2020 and 2021, IFSH was awarded the IREM Workplace Environment Award for exemplary practices in leadership development, employee engagement, corporate culture and wellness programs. We started using Traction in 2019 and created our company core values, vision statement, mission statement and 10-year target.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What was surprising was that Haus announced this shift after it crossed the $10 million in revenue threshold and announced that it would be hitting national distribution with Winebow — two markers of growth. Rivals like Laurel & Wolf and Homepolish shuttered in 2019, while Décor Aid, a smaller company, closed up shop in 2021.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

Sadly, no one is buying a ticket to my latest blockbuster movie for $10. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog.

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