A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 20, 2022

At 60, with 35 years of venture investing experience, I still get most things wrong. I met Mena Trott at a Nick Denton party in NYC in 2003 and she explained blogging to me. Investing is humbling. Which is why I like to keep things simple. And when I do I am rewarded. My friend Gordon asked me last night how I got into Bitcoin.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Ajay has been an instrumental investor since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003. Ajay is coming to Early Stage just weeks after Bain Capital Ventures announced two new funds. Bain’s venture arm raised $1.9 If you haven’t already, book your pass soon as we’re quickly approaching capacity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Let’s start with the supposition that the venture-founder compact is built almost entirely on trust, especially early on. I would argue what she did helped undermine the entire venture compact, and that’s why she’s going to jail. The implication here is that Holmes’ rich investors deserved to lose their money.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

million venture fund called Tiger Private Investment Partners XIV that it expects to close in March. The fund is Tiger’s 13th venture fund, despite its title — the partners might be superstitious — and it comes hot on the heels of the firm’s 12th venture fund, closed exactly a year ago, also with $3.75

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 26, 2022

A former venture capitalist, Mark Leonard started Constellation in 1995 with $15m of outside investment & a goal of buying vertical software companies with a moat & good unit economics. From 2003 to 2014, Constellation’s revenues compounded from $80m to more than $5b, an average of 25% annually. . # of BUs. %. >

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

It''s kind of a funny answer to "When did you start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?". So when did I really start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures? I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

LMS365: Tracking and reporting Image Credits : LMS365 The story so far LMS365’s history can be traced back to 2003, when dentist Bjarne Mortensen founded a company called Elearningforce that was focused squarely on on-premise deployments of Microsoft Sharepoint. Germany, and Australia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Jennifer Queen is the founder of Pina , a PR firm focused on startups and venture capital firms. Latin American venture capital and growth investments through 2018 had averaged less than $2 billion per year. By 2003, that was gone and the company quickly introduced fees accross its markets. Jennifer Queen. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Viken Douzdjian , managing partner and co-founder, Argonautic Ventures. Will Gibbs , principal, Octopus Ventures. Viken Douzdjian, managing partner, Argonautic Ventures. We spoke with: Todd Harrison , founding partner and CIO, CB1 Capital Management. Yoni Meyer , partner, Casa Verde Capital. will.i.am , investor, Sanity Group.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

in 2003, Sebastian Thrun had just won the DARPA Grand Challenge, right? ” Like, autonomous vehicle is a solved problem back in 2003. And one of the best examples of this is autonomous vehicles or robotaxis. So, when I joined Stanford to do my Ph.D. So, he had driven a van autonomously across the desert and won this.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 17, 2021

After assisting in founding four angel groups - the Frontier Angel Fund (2006), Vegas Valley Angels (2003), Tech Coast Angels (San Diego - 2000), and Aztec Venture Network (1999) – it was clear to Bill that angels needed comprehensive education, no matter where they were in their investing journey.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

billion in venture capital in 2021 and $70.7 billion in the first quarter of 2022 alone, according to PitchBook’s Venture Monitor report. Perhaps the most well-known maker of electric vehicles, or EVs, is Tesla, which was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning and has revolutionized the industry. since 2010.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 21, 2022

My professorship began in 2003 but a couple of years ago, I took my leave to pursue my itch to start a company again. I struggled to figure out how to select a problem that could be a viable venture over the next 10 years. what will a typical day look like with each venture, and will I enjoy it? My usual criteria?—?market

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

Upfront Ventures has a deep-seated commitment to equality in funding & building diverse teams across all ethnicities, nationalities and genders. We have much work still to do but: A few data points on Upfront Ventures - 25% of our investment dollars in the past three funds have gone to founding teams with at least one female founder.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 7, 2019

As a venture capitalist, should you be a Momentum or a Value investor? Today, some Momentum-centric venture capital investors have high paper returns. The Momentum model depends in part on more and more venture capital being readily available. The post In Venture Capital, Should You Be a Momentum or a Value Investor?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We also spent a fair bit of time talking about the changing nature of venture capital and in particular the hand-on practitioner role of early-stage VC led by accelerators such as YC, 500Startups, Betaworks and the like. Nate, tell us a bit about Rustic Canyon Venture Partners. I agree with him. My guest today is Nate Redmond.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 26, 2015

ED ZIMMERMAN : In 2003, I remember the general counsel of a prestigious venture fund shouting down the idea of “secondary” or “founder liquidity” (i.e. Founders seeking liquidity in a venture round need to canvas the investors in advance of the board meeting to get a feel for how amenable they’ll be towards founder liquidity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2003, FreshBooks’ co-founder Mike McDerment was running a small design agency. After relaunching its accounting platform, FreshBooks has raised another $43 million. As in the case of many startups, FreshBooks was started to solve a pain point for one of its founders.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. McGee Award and was the 2003 Journal Record Woman of the Year. Salyer was inducted into the Oklahoma Woman’s Hall of Fame in 2017. She has been recognized by Downtown Oklahoma City with the Dean A.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

They started their first joint venture, Blue Moon Pizza, in 2003. It’s a big commitment, but the benefits of working every day and building a successful venture with the person you love make it well worth the time and effort. In Their Industry. You have to understand that you are in this business together?for

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

The first company to go public was Callidus in October, 2003, though it wasn’t the most successful exit. The EV/revenue multiple of IGV — a measurement that shows how much every $1 of revenue translated into valuation — dropped by 57%. The IPO market stayed shut for about 15 months. In June 2004, eight months later, Salesforce went public.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. Precision Ventures Precision Ventures identifies market opportunities and delivers complete concept solutions to brand-name global manufacturers.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

It was June of 2003. Somewhere within this portfolio, you're going to find some seriously huge successes and "the best of the best" will emerge--but you really never know which ones, just like any other venture portfolio. I sat in a little ink shop on Rivington Street called Porcupine Tattoo. Seven Nation Army was playing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The funding comes from ArcLight Capital Partners, a venture fund that invests in energy infrastructure. The first is what the startup refers to as emerging EV fleet operators, venture-backed companies that were born based on an EV fleet. ” Inspiration aims to cater for three types of customers.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 29, 2023

25% of those outcomes were initially funded during downcycle years (2001-2003 and 2008-2011) with the rest during the upcycles. Or perhaps during the downturns, investors were especially cautious and risk averse, and that translated into avoidance of the highest risk ventures that might eventually deliver the highest returns.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The TL;DR answer to the stock option question is that MySpace options were cashed out at modest value at the time of the FIM merger, coming on the heels of the spin-out of MySpace into a separate subsidiary by parent company Intermix Media, with an infusion of new capital from Redpoint Ventures. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

But with venture capitalists and crossover investors turning an ever-increasing number of less mature startups into unicorns, that demarcation line has lost its rigidity. based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors). That’s fair. That’s about.07

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Roccia joined straight from Georgetown the same year, 2003, and left as the magazine’s accessories editor in 2008. NEA is an investor in Maisonette, as is Thrive Capital and the growth-stage venture firm G Squared, which just today announced it led a $30 million round in the company that brings its total funding to $50 million.

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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. We found a way to make our venture capital last when it shouldn’t have, at around the same time one of my all time favorite New Yorker cartoons was published on this topic. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 9, 2018

Traditional venture investing is challenging. My colleague Victor Wang observes that Union Square Ventures is a particularly good example of the power of a correct thesis. Similarly, firms like my alma mater ff Venture Capital and Andreessen Horowitz have executed this strategy in VC. – Thesis.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. Many businesses that pitch to me have White Elephant issues and I’d like to tell you how to deal with these when you’re raising venture capital. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice. I sometimes call these White Elephants. Small story.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

And over those many years, the company did pretty much everything wrong, if you ask the venture capitalists. Automattic’s founder, Matt Mullenweg, was barely of American legal drinking age (21) when he began building, at a time when venture capitalists wanted “adult supervision” at their companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Squarespace, which has helped millions create their own websites, was founded in 2003 and bootstrapped until a $38.5 million Series A in 2010 that was co-led by Accel and Index Ventures. The move comes less than two months after the company filed confidentiality to go public via a direct listing or initial public offering.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

And the venture capital firms that pulled back in 1996 missed the best three years of return in the history of venture capital industry. What was it in 2003? Internet Uncategorized Venture Capital Investing' All of which makes predicting market tops a delicately tricky business. And how has that trended over time?

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