Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). Rumored to be appox.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link. We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Topics we discussed in the first 45 minutes of the video include: What is VC like in NY? Social network app developer and ad network.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. I believe that.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC. ” Expert panel of judges.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

A significant event came with acquisition by AOL of the the ICQ messaging system developed by Mirabilis. The Yozma Programme (Hebrew for “initiative”) from the government, in 1993, was seminal: It offered attractive tax incentives to foreign VCs in Israel and promised to double any investment with funds from the government.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Lerner said this point in time feels like the period between March and December 2000, “when public technology stock prices dropped dramatically and there was little apparent impact on venture capital fundraising. The biggest VC firms are managing a lot more moolah than you thought. That’s new.”. India-based 100X.VC

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Developers and coders historically go to specific schools and colleges, entering a funnel that guides them to success. I was in college from 2000 to 2004. This public spreadsheet lists Black founders who have raised VC, and the investors backing them. A lot of great companies were started at elite schools during that period.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

But following the rapid development of its ecosystem (desktop and then mobile MP3 players, Torrent and then download and streaming services), MP3s rapidly became a better option than CDs for the majority of the population, rendering the previous paradigm obsolete. They therefore started by giving away a simple desktop-based MP3 encoder.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed. Second, as competition has intensified, VC funds have invested in platforms (we call it founder experience at Redpoint). These operating divisions of venture firms provide talent, marketing, PR, and business development services to startups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Incredibuild , an Israeli startup that has picked up a lot of traction in the worlds of gaming and software development for a platform that drastically speeds up (and reduces the cost of) the shipment of code and related collateral during building and testing — has raised some capital to speed up its own development.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Andy says: “If the average VC fund barely makes money, and seed investments represent even less compelling opportunities than the ones pursued by venture capital firms, then the typical return for angels must be atrocious.” It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The median Series A raised by developer-tooling companies fell to $47.5 Twitter Space: A Gen Z VC speaks up. According to Andrew Chan, a senior associate at Builders VC, GenZ investors “are still a bunch of kids, myself included.” A Gen Z VC speaks up: Why Gen Z VCs are trash. @yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019. Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. About Daren Cotter : I founded InboxDollars from a dorm room (literally) as a college freshman in 2000. MY 2021 ANSWER TO “WHY?”

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Enterprises pursue technology innovations and adopt them at earlier phases of product development, to gain a competitive advantage. Many of the biggest banks in the world have staffed technology business development teams to scout and source breakthrough technologies. Consumers trust mobile commerce. Today, that’s a big Series A.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

Between 2000 and 2002, Industry Canada reported that roughly a quarter of the venture funding for Canadian startups came from the United States, while the converse was not true – Canadian venture capitalists maybe accounted for 1% of venture investments into U.S. Because the U.S. companies. (See

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. 2 weeks later and we may never have raised any more VC. We hired a head of technology, a head of customer service, a head of marketing, a head of strategy (which no startup should ever hire) a CFO and, ugh, 33 developers. True story.)

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. It required content sites to develop totally new content. I’m now a VC. Everybody and their mothers are coming into my offices proclaiming that their developing the latest iPhone App. These phones were so over hyped.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The founders also took in grant money from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research fund during an earlier R&D phase developing the network tech. “Then over the next year or two — because we have this runway — we can work more on kind of higher speed applications.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 17, 2022

Thank you VC money, keep pumping the market full of that fee-adjusted beta! Now, obviously, neither of these two DEXs are as battle tested and well developed as their TradFi counterparts– but these DEXs offer a new way of trading to anyone with an internet connection. Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million. We had a $40 million round lined up to close in the Autumn of 2000. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. I was reminded of all this this when I read a blog post by one of my favorite thinkers on the VC market, Bryce Roberts, who talked about “ unfundable companies.&#. Most of the Internet startup consulting firms went bankrupt.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

Nicholas leverages his extensive experience in entrepreneurialism, traditional and decentralized finance, and early-growth startups to provide operational guidance, optimize developer velocity, and help new sales teams reach operational maturity — quickly. That’s a lot of resources under one roof and a lot of risk off the table.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He pointed to data from Pitchbook showing an uptick in down rounds in Q3 this year, with almost 19% of all European VC funding now fitting this criteria. Ending on a positive note he said: “I started Kazaa in 2000 and Skype a few years later – just after stocks crashed 80% in the dotcom bust.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

we like Ingrid ’s inclusion of company president Brandon Tseng’s ranking of the United States’ aerospace development compared to China’s. Startups and VC. Product research is expensive, but product development is even more pricy. Shield AI, which makes military autonomous flying systems, raised $165 million at a $2.3

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Ben: Going to generative AI, 1 of the things that’s been interesting for us as a VC, is we see all kinds of companies. Some have amazing traction, but every company that has traction is in a category like selling to developers or consumers, or maybe selling to small law firms. Cisco is the best 1, by far.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Stay tuned as my colleagues and I parse the developments. Startups and VC. Alomar led startups through the dot-com bust of 2000 and the Great Recession of 2008 and will talk about whether investors are still prioritizing growth over profits and how to identify the proof points founding teams must define before their next raise.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

In 2005, when Y Combinator started, there was already a well developed ecosystem of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and Boston. VCs preferred to fund companies that already seemed like a sure bet – in other words, were far along. In the venture creation model, the VC firm creates the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2012

But my VC didn’t seem to be in such a rush. They say, “I haven’t been able to reach my client (the VC) yet.” I call the VC to discuss. I talk to the VC. He had been working in the 1990′s for a large global real estate developer called Hines ( which he has now rejoined ). We compromise.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Also be careful about VCs. But once a VC has heard your idea he can’t “un-think&# it. Nobody likes to hear you say, “we can’t tell you anything we’re in stealth mode&# so develop some generic talking points that don’t give anything away when you’re asked what you do.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I freely admit this (along with nearly everything between 1999-2000) was a mistake. So I developed this standard line that I used for all employees. I wouldn’t be a VC for very long if I did. But I thought I should do a quick post on the topic. I see people’s private information for a living.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Because times are slightly better now for fund raising I’d probably say two extra things: a) it may be worth a modest increase in your team size / activities / development IF you can raise more money to do this now & b) if you can raise more than you need right now (within reason) without too much extra dilution I would do so.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

In his latest TC+ post, Michael Perez, director of growth and data at VC firm M13, shares five questions he uses to devise pricing strategy frameworks , along with three value metrics and a detailed measurement plan for GTM strategy. CEO and co-founder Puneet Gupta has shared his seven-step plan for developing usage-based pricing models.

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