This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 26, 2011
One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted?
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
After more than 30 years of investing in both private and public companies, I’ve now started as a fund manager, and I recommend that emerging managers ask these five questions before seeking out and pitching to potential LPs. Which LPs are you targeting?
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 1, 2022
We have an outstanding cohort of VCs ready to hear their pitches and follow up with tough Q&As — and we’re thrilled to add three more to the slate. In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. Did you miss the other Startup Battlefield VC judges?
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. Enter Facebook. Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 2, 2023
Back in 2004, I was working for the General Motors pension fund, which had been making limited partnership investments in venture capital since the early 1980’s. I got to see all of the top VCs pitching their funds. USV came in pitching digitally native businesses models that could not exist until the internet connected everyone.
Tomasz Tunguz
OCTOBER 24, 2021
And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps. Well, I joined Google, I guess now fairly early, but it was 2004. ” Tomasz Tunguz: Great sales pitch, please come do this.
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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