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APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners. Investors: True Ventures, Social Leverage (Howard Lindzon). Blogging has gone through many iterations. Other deals.

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JUNE 28, 2010

I had an hour to interview Mike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days.

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APRIL 1, 2021

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. Organize events in your vertical.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Last week I went to a Girls in Tech talk about women entrepreneurs and venture capital. In another situation, I chat on IM with a junior editor for a tech blog on a regular basis. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. It was a head scratcher that they didn’t reach out.

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JULY 15, 2010

If you enjoy this blog I think you’ll enjoy watching the first 14 minutes of this video (just click on the image of me below). I give a sneak peek at a blog post I’m writing on the topic next week. . What advice do you have for people who want to get into venture capital? Don’t. Beyond The Rack.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. We’ll share our experience developing enterprise and consumer facing semantic search applications from three perspectives: Content and user experience, knowledge engineering and technology. RSVP: [link].

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JUNE 8, 2010

Greycroft is Alan’s venture capital firm that recently raised its second fund ($130 million) with offices in both New York and LA. I’m going to save that for a future blog post. I’ve been to similar events with First Round Capital and True Ventures. Greycroft – Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups.

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JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Recently raised $7 million from Atlas Ventures out of Boston. Farb talks about how he did that.

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JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

Both groups signed up for the deal, as did Lerer Media Ventures, and several other prominent angels—including Josh Stylman and Pete Hershberg, who backed my previous company. I’ve always believed in small, private groups—dating back to when I first started blogging. GroupMe is more than just a way to text in groups.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Start blogging about what you *are* excited about. Learn how to drive traffic to your blog using Google keywords. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Show up for a startup event. Join communities of innovators. Don’t try to reverse engineer your resume to try and figure out who would hire you.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

I had written a blog post on exactly this – how to not suck at group presentations – and what he said reminded me a lot of this post. Raising Capital – The VC equivalent for musicians is getting signed by a major label. So cheeky Chamillionaire went to Universal wearing the tags from every other label he had visited.

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MARCH 18, 2010

When a reader lands on my blog, they’re going to run into a lot of people. Not only is my e-mail address on my blog, but I even have a live Plugoo widget that you can type into and send me a message on AIM. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. First off, there’s me.

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JULY 8, 2010

Or, if you’re dying to do something data-driven, how about actually measuring influence through a service like Klout, or running someone’s top 50 blog posts, tweets, etc., through some kind of algorithm?

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APRIL 1, 2021

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. Organize events in your vertical.

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MARCH 29, 2010

There’s also been some great blog chatter from Sarah Tavel ( here ) and Josh Kopelman ( here and here ) on the topic. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. Background: GRP Partners is a Los Angeles based Venture Capital firm with additional operations in London and Paris. Tags: VC Industry. I will not consider applicants without a cover letter. Plus, show my you can write! Yesterday.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It also wrote a bit more about the fundraise on its own blog.). The cover slide is at the top of this post and just reads “The OS for Grocery” with a few keywords, designed as tags (“order management,” “inventory management” and “analytics”). Clear market size.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We all know media companies are suffering as CPMs (the amount they can charge per thousand visitors) are falling, available inventory is climbing, free content and blogs are proliferating, user attention is being divided with social networks and the core media business cash cows like classified ads have been disrupted by companies like CraigsList.

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JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. I told them that True Ventures had stuck to their brand name and submitted a totally clean term sheet. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. No gotchas.

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JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Cialdini who is also author of a very well received book called “ Influence &# (which I plan to read).

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AUGUST 12, 2010

But this gets all the space on prominent blogs because it’s what bloggers like to cover.&# It’s self selecting. Deals are getting done with a lot less capital which is creating a healthy debate in the industry. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Minutes 8 – 10. Minutes 36- 38. Minutes 41-56.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

To understand this in great detail see this very important blog post by Henry Blodget on the unemployment rate in the US and its impact on the recovery. So if I am unnecessarily concerned in this blog post (great!) Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital.

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MAY 27, 2010

Kinda seems like that sometimes, right—that the venture capital community seems to chase after the bright shiny object of the moment in droves and then just as quickly moves on to the next new new thing. Back when I was at Union Square Ventures, Fred started to get really excited about podcasting. Geolocation is so 2009.

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JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. 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 a major media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I can tell you many angels I know – and really sharp ones with more than enough capital to put to work – are telling me, “I’m currently going to sit on the sidelines for a while. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. Easier to start companies, yes. Total disruption on the funding market?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

When you see all these seed stage investors debating on Twitter and blogs what structures they support, take it for what it is—a marketing exercise. Can you afford to play the “pay up to move ahead at all costs” game as a startup with just 9-12 months of capital in the bank? Tags: Venture Capital & Technology.

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MARCH 1, 2010

The simple fact of the matter is that most startups seeking angel or vc capital just don’t receive it—and that’s just anywhere. It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. You know what—it’s supposed to work like that!

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MAY 27, 2010

Kinda seems like that sometimes, right—that the venture capital community seems to chase after the bright shiny object of the moment in droves and then just as quickly moves on to the next new new thing. Back when I was at Union Square Ventures, Fred started to get really excited about podcasting. Geolocation is so 2009.

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MARCH 5, 2010

The San Francisco events will be run by Chris Sacca (of Lowercase Capital ) and Kevin Rose of Digg. Finally, it was a real pleasure to meet Manu Kumar of K9 Ventures. It’s always great to meet somebody in person that you’ve interacted with on blogs and on Twitter. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. For venture capitalists this isn’t troubling. Bad times often require more capital but ironically this is when capital is dried up. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

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MAY 13, 2010

Start blogging and telling the world, in very plain, innocuous, basic terms, what you’re aiming for, what your driving goals are, who you are, etc. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. The more fact you throw on this fire, the less you leave room for conjecture and the less interesting the story actually gets.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. About how dismissive traditional print was about blogs or the airlines views the “peanut serving&# Southwest Airlines.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

Many (Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, GRP Partners, Mike Hirshland at Polaris Ventures) do it the right way – we treat it as a normal investment and we don’t have a “options&# strategy with our investment. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. They came to me 2 years ago with their company, GumGum , and were trying to raise an A round of capital. They came back 2 months later and had raised money from Crosscut Ventures , an early-stage venture firm in LA run by Rick Smith and Brian Garrett.

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JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. 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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