A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

This simple and short blog post by the folks at Correlation Ventures contains the key to venture capital returns – the hit rate. In the Correlation post, they define “hit rate” as: the percent of invested dollars generating a 10X or greater return. I think that is all about the amount of capital in the business now.

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 27, 2023

 Andrew started by buying some apartments, before moving on to investing in tech startups. Tiny Capital in 2018. After graduating from Oak Bay High School in 2004, he won a place at Ryerson University studying journalism. His latest acquisition? " The billionaire has been quite a student in his time.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

My godfather got me IBM stock right after that, so that''s how I knew that a stock market and investing existed. 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. Venture Capital & Technology' So when did I really start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?

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MAY 9, 2022

3) Do you need to raise a large amount of growth capital in 2022? Even “needing” growth capital can be problematic. Growth capital should be the kind of thing you choose to take, not need to take. VCs need to invest to make their returns—and eventually, they’ll want to raise the next fund to layer more fees upon more fees.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. This implies that the US is still the center of the VC industry, even while there is more opportunity for US VCs to invest abroad. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Menlo Park-based Structural Capital among other institutions that also joined in the strategic round totaling $35 million. IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004. A NetEase spokesperson declined to comment on the investment in IMVU.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? . If they had missed it, they would have failed to return capital after fees.”.

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MARCH 30, 2015

Sam Altman of YC recently pointed out that pulling back during the downturn in 2008 would result in several big misses: In October of 2008, Sequoia Capital—arguably the best-ever in the business—gave the famous “RIP Good Times” presentation (I was there). These sound fundamentals drive the venture capital market over the long term.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla, who spoke onstage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, spoke about the culture of capital. And that is difficult,” he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Its seed round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Insignia Venture Partners, Arka Venture Labs, Better Capital and Vietnam Investments Group.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Rob Olson is a partner and head of data strategy at M13 , a venture engine focused on investing in the core technologies that are going to drive and change consumer behavior over the next decade. exchange or an exit via M&A from 2004-2019. Contributor. Share on Twitter. What can early-stage founders do to accelerate outcomes?

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As reported by Slate from a study from researchers at the University of North Carolina, “We have lost about 20 percent of local newspapers in the United States since 2004, and at least 900 communities now are without any local news source in that same time frame.” It’s the Gannett cuts that worry me the most.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. Of the first four investments I made as a VC in 2009, two have exited and two (Invoca & GumGum) still are independent and likely to produce $billion++ outcomes . sold to Disney for $670 million and since our first investment was at < $10 million valuation we did quite well.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Natalia Holgado Sanchez is head of capital markets at Secfi , an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. Capital was extremely cheap to borrow as interest rates dipped as low as 1.67% (compared to rates in the last few years bottoming out at 0.25%). Contributor.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

I''m super proud of Rob, Ben and the whole Backupify team--and this is particularly special for me because Backupify was the first investment I ever made as a VC, and the first board I ever sat on. I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. Venture Capital & Technology'

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2021

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked away from deals where the entrepreneur insists on a start-up pre-money valuation that is so high, no angel could expect to make a return upon the investment, even with a reasonable sales price for the company down the road. And here’s the “why.”. More of my stories. Lessons founders learned.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. Sequoia Capital led the round and was joined by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation venture investment arm Arrive, Will Smith’s Dreamers VC and existing investor Signia Venture Partners. The rate reached its peak of 69.2% The rate reached 63.7%

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Wale Ayeni , one of Africa’s well-known investors, has a new role as the head of Helios Digital Ventures, the venture capital strategy of private equity firm Helios Investment Partners, TechCrunch has learned. It raised $50 million in Series B earlier this month, in a round that marked PayPal Ventures’ first MENA investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As the recipients of less than 1% of venture capital raise, institutionalized systems are visibly at play. From imbalances in fundraising to minimal capital and access, Black brilliance and its cloak of resilience continues to rise. I was in college from 2000 to 2004. I’m a Black man in America — that’s hard.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2023

This is part of PEVCtech ‘s series on investment management firms’ tech stacks. (I I met Liz and Jon when I presented recently to the New York Angels on VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments.) We were founded in 2004 by David Rose, Founder & Executive Chairman, Gust.

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MARCH 15, 2012

He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009. I'm not surprised, because New Yorkers have more of a trading/investment mentality--thinking that it's better to take a sure $100 million than go for a home run with a lot more capital.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Fred Wilson’s perspectives on trends in consumer web investment created a big brouhaha over the weekend. Commenting on a WSJ article , Wilson offered his confirmatory observations that follow-on investments in the consumer web have become more challenging as momentum investors have shifted toward enterprise. of VC dollars.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Despite the process being relatively laborious, if you believe that your company has created a truly unique invention, then it’s definitely worth the investment. An investment for the future. For example, Nicholas Woodman presented his patent in 2004 , to enable people to easily record their exciting life moments.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Iconic New York venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau announced $230 million in additional funding across two new funds: LH Seed VIII, which focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage companies, and LH Select IV, which invests in companies from Series A to C. Lerer Hippeau has invested in 400 portfolio companies since it was founded in 2010.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg famously launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room at the age of 19. Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

What better than to have capital from somebody who has actually done it in the trenches? Matt’s commitment to re-investing in tech startups is reminiscent to this great Fred Wilson post of “recycling capital. &#. Backstopping is when banks feel they are protected by VC’s investing in the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. 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. Simple: according to Mike Polaris has followed on nearly every seed investment that they’ve done. Total raised: $19mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Current round: $7.0mm Series-B led by MK Capital, withClearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. New capital to be used for international expansion and to challenge Skype.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

In 2004, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk took what appeared to be a huge and perhaps reckless gamble. In 2004, Musk was way ahead of the curve in foreseeing the transformation of energy from fossil fuels to renewables. .” Memic’s strong management team is led by Chairman Maurice R. Learn More. Elon Musk’s genius is battery powered.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2014

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked away from deals where the entrepreneur insists on a start-up premoney valuation that is so high, no angel could expect to make a return upon the investment, even with a reasonable sales price for the company down the road. Let me tell you two stories that are linked. Email readers, continue here.]

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She is also principal of Broadway Realty, investing in, and repurposing, historic properties. 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. She began her professional career as a corporate loan officer with the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Now, the company has a new name, Supplant, and $24 million in venture capital financing to start commercializing its low-cost sugar substitute made from the waste materials of other plants. ” Senkut and Felicis invested in Cambridge Glycosciences almost immediately after seeing the company’s presentation at Y Combinator.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

The grey line smooths the chart to show long term changes and the blue dashed line marks the 2004 Median Series B pre-money. The Series A valuation explosion is probably fueled by the tripling of capital in the institutional seed market. This data should help you understand what to negotiate for when raising capital.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2015

The business was founded in 2004, but hit its stride 2009 and went public in 2012. Impressively, the company is investing more and more into engineering - exceeding 20% of revenues last year - likely developing broader feature set to enable additional up and cross sells. ServiceNow has recorded a better than 1.0 at $93M in revenue.

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