2001 investment pitching venture capital 
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 5, 2023
Sometime in the next few weeks, I’ll complete my next investment. 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. No new investments. Honestly?
Dream It
APRIL 12, 2020
Martino founded Bullpen in 2010 with a focus on post-seed, pre-Series A startups, and he led the fund’s investments in companies like FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. This geographic distinction is now less about actual geography and more about mentality and style of investing of these types of firms.
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 29, 2021
John Danner , managing partner, Dunce Capital (an edtech and future of work fund with portfolio companies Lambda School and Outschool). Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multistage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever and Outschool). Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.
StartupNation
DECEMBER 6, 2020
There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. A lot of this gender imbalance is due to unconscious bias at the funding stage.
Feedough
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
But, still, every startup, especially those seeking angel and venture capital funding, are conditioned to project this growth curve – because investors love it. Surging Growth: This period started in 2001. Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Not every startup see such hockey stick growth. Go On, Tell Us What You Think!
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog.
OkDork
DECEMBER 9, 2022
These are some of the milestones that helped make—and almost break—Amazon along the way: Jeff had a feeling that the internet was going to be very popular, so he pitched the idea of starting an online bookstore to his boss. His parents invested $300,000 to help Amazon get started. It’s meant to be innovative.
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