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JUNE 28, 2011
In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.
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MAY 23, 2012
Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.
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FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?
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JUNE 12, 2010
We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites).
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 16, 2010
I am excited to share the news of First Round Capital 's recent investment in cloud-to-cloud backup service Backupify. We met back in 2005 through our respective blogs—he was writing at Businesspundit at the time. Always working on something entrepreneurial, he had a team of developers at the ready to execute on new projects.
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NOVEMBER 4, 2012
I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customer development and Y Combinator? I remember this lesson well. What brings you to LA?
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 11, 2011
Back in 2005, when I was with Union Square Ventures, we changed our brochureware homepage into a blog. Last year, First Round Capital , my current firm, updated our page to make it even more interactive, pulling in shared links, Foursquare updates, and linking to our Twitter, LinkedIn, and Honestly.com pages.
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