2004 investment strategy 
Paul G. Silva
MARCH 25, 2025
Facing Reality Just in Time: The River Valley Investors Story After running the River Valley Investors (RVI) angel group for 15 years, I watched as attendance dwindled and investment activity slowed to concerning levels. The organization was rapidly declining and close to not having enough members to run effective meetings.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 19, 2011
Matt’s commitment to re-investing in tech startups is reminiscent to this great Fred Wilson post of “recycling capital. &#. People want to invest in people they trust – once you’ve made money for someone you can always go back, and even get better pricing. Here’s a summary of our interview. That was a quick meeting!!
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 25, 2021
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. The fresh investment will be used to fund IMVU’s product development and comes fresh off a restructuring at the company. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 9, 2022
I’ve been asked by portfolio companies and plenty of others about how they should be changing their strategy given the stock market pullback and what they’ve been hearing on “VC twitter”. 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.
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.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 1, 2022
The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups. In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. Freestyle led the seed rounds in Airtable, Patreon, BetterUp, Narvar and Snapdocs.
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? . 100x investment opportunities only come along in VC occasionally. Hope is not a strategy.
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