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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed.

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal. Around that time, I’ll be able to mark twenty years since I started as the first analyst at Union Square Ventures.

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How Venture Funding For Early-Stage Startups Will Change During the COVID-19 Crisis

Dream It

Paul Martino, General Partner at Bullpen Capital. During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital?

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? Until we weren’t.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 11 PLG tactics, addressing copycat stigma, ‘unicorn glut’ theory

TechCrunch

The ability to raise capital is less impressive than finding sustainable ways to build a base of paying customers. “Across the board, the variance in metrics is stark,” says Townshend. EDT, we’re hosting a Twitter Space with new contributors who are covering climate, crypto, venture capital and more.

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Reading what was written and the VC age question

This is going to be BIG.

For a solid six or seven minutes, I was pretty pissed at Fred Wilson for his last post on the age of venture capitalists. An experienced entrepreneur who has raised money multiple times can be a great board member as well. he's only been in venture for two years and only through one market, an up one!"

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‘Graceful way out’: Investors propose some struggling founders close shop and return funding

TechCrunch

A growing number of investors have begun suggesting that certain venture-backed startups that have yet to find so-called product-market fit throw in the towel. Now, if you were to tell me VCs were starting to return capital to LPs, I could see some parallels. So that’s $2 million to $3 million in capital in reasonable times.

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