TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

It also resurfaced talk of when Stripe reportedly pressured investor Sequoia to back off from an investment that smelled like competition. Well, this past week, the company came out with an indirect response to the latter in the form of a blog post written by its CEO Maju Kuruvilla. You can read all about it here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The big incumbents haven’t figured out how to make plans affordable and accessible for smaller companies,” Schneble said. “We Last July San Mateo-based Guideline — which is also focused on SMBs — announced an $85 million Series D round co-led by Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management and Greyhound Capital.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

As expected, many developers didn’t love the news that some of their work would be concentrated in the hands of a tech incumbent. However, Fred Wilson blogs and Jackson Palmer smartly tweets that Git is already a decentralized system with GitHub built on top of it. Many tried and couldn’t get in.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. So, about two years ago, as a Bay Area resident, living right off Sand Hill Road, started intentionally investing outside the Bay Area.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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Gust

JULY 27, 2014

If you have more money than the incumbents, try it, but don’t look for investors. Micro payments, micro loans, micro investments. The latest is “crowd funding” your startup with thousands of tiny investments. Invested Interests business entrepreneur ideas startup' Portals and single sign-on sites. What’s your idea?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have always loved watching videos there but always believed that any company controlled by a consortia of interests would be doomed in the long run – especially by established, large incumbents with an interest in protecting the past more than innovating the future.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

CVS Care Clinic Price Schedule: Benchmark Healthcare Investments. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. Background: I spent the better part of two-years surveying the Healthcare market in search of an investable opportunity or possibly a key investable theme.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. In other words, it wants to help fintechs be in a stronger position to compete with incumbents, something it believes will benefit consumers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

The AI-powered defense company founded by tech iconoclast Palmer Luckey has landed a $450 million round of investment that values the startup at $4.6 In April, reports suggested that the company was on the hunt for fresh investment and headed for a valuation between four and five billion, up from $1.9 billion just four years in.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

And I helped him set up his blog, and I remember he wrote his first blog article. ” That was the early days of HubSpot, not only helping people set their blog up, but actually posting it and editing it. Use our template, put your blog out and put your site, you’re going to be happy. We lost that battle.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

We're going to talk about why you invest in what you invest. And we're going to talk about, do you ever invest in non startup stuff? I don't know if you recall this Sam, that there was something that was said about VCs or investment or something. You can invest in things. We're also going to talk about your ideas.

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