A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Back in 2005 Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink that was about how our subconscious allows us to make fast decisions that are often as good or better than slow considered decisions. That work, which we call thesis building, helps us make rapid decisions in the absence of time and information.

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APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes. million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon. Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started ( today and 2005 ), largely due to the emergence of cloud technologies, no-code tools, and artificial intelligence. psychedelics or construction).

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APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. I'm a huge fan of this innovation. and Half.com. and Half.com.

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Jason Calacanis

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Unlimited venture capital for any winning startup (defined as a startup that can get to $500,000 in revenue), with reasonable gross margins and burn. ” “If only I had started a company at the start of the internet!” ” “If only I had started an app or cloud company during the ZIRP run up from 2009 to 2021!”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. What is different is that with a larger fund, they can deploy the capital faster than in previous funds, Plauche said.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 14, 2023

Register Immersive entertainment group NEON is reportedly considering a fresh capital injection of approximately US$200 million in its expansion plans. According to industry experts, NEON’s move to seek additional capital is its strategic intent to develop further and diversify its business operations.

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.” Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

One of the points I tried to make is that as venture capital investors as an industry we seem to have a healthy disdain for public market investors. What is your revenue growth rate and what does this imply about your number of months of capital remaining? ” It goes like this: What is your net burn rate? ” Listen.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Other investors in the round include Slack Fund and Cleveland Avenue , with Mike Gamson , Sterling Road , and Concrete Rose Capital as repeat investors. The raise makes Shells and Umubyeyi two of the fewer than 250 Black women who’ve raised more than $1 million in venture capital. Last year, less than an estimated 0.5%

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Other investors in the round include Slack Fund and Cleveland Avenue , with Mike Gamson , Sterling Road and Concrete Rose Capital as repeat investors. The raise makes Shells and Umubyeyi two of the fewer than 250 Black women who’ve raised more than $1 million in venture capital. Last year, less than an estimated 0.5%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The company is claiming this is the “world’s first” technology of its kind, and Daniel Russek, founder and CEO of Atarraya, told TechCrunch that Shrimpbox was an idea he got after college in 2005 when he started with a non-government organization working with fishing communities. For example, South Korea-based CellMEAT raised $8.1

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

Ten years ago, in 2005, I started working for Union Square Ventures as their first analyst. I was down to the last few weeks of capital at my startup, after almost two years of work. Venture Capital & Technology' Twenty years ago, I got my first job. Things didn''t always match up well.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

financing back in 2005, “climate change” was some future event. That’s where growth capital and eventually infrastructure investments come in. That’s where government, national labs, universities, angel investors and venture capital come in. I know it is a capital-intensive sector. Share on Twitter.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

From 2005 to 2009, I was fortunate enough to be part of a small group of New York City innovation community leaders that sowed some of the seeds of the thriving tech hub we have today. Honestly, it was a fair bit of hand waving and maybe a little smoke and mirrors--saying in 2005 that we had a ton of startup-ready tech talent.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

I don''t remember when I started talking to Rob, but I know it was before February of 2005, because I found "rob@businesspundit.com" in the contacts I ported over when I left GM and went to USV. Venture Capital & Technology' It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The startup was founded in 2005 by a 15-year-old, Andrew Sutherland. Quizlet has raised a majority of its $62 million in venture capital under Glotzbach. It was fully bootstrapped until 2015. Glotzbach, who was previously an executive at YouTube, then joined in 2016.

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MARCH 15, 2012

So what would have happened had Sean met Joshua Schachter in 2005--would Josh have still sold out early to Yahoo! 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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Upon thoroughly analyzing the data, we’ve been able to identify the total number of investment firms and amount of capital that comprise the RBI industry, the specific verticals and business models that are most actively leveraging RBI, and the typical profile of companies that access this form of capital. billion in capital.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Ribbit Capital led the financing, which also included participation from DST Global, NFX and Zigg Capital. Flint co- founded another online real estate giant, Trulia and was its CEO and chairman from its 2005 inception until it was acquired by Zillow for $2.5 They were once rivals. billion in 2015. “We

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APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad’s start in Venture Capital. was starting.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

YC was founded in 2005 as an antidote to the classic venture capital firm. PG, Jessica, Trevor, and Robert decided to fund hackers and thereby enable the next generation of startup founders who would understand technology and its capabilities.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Thus is venture capital.

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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. 49:30 Steve: When’s the last time venture capital actually led an innovation? I remember this lesson well. At this time I can tell you that the Brits definitely didn’t have a culture of failure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. Today, Austin is more than just the capital of Texas. For years it was known primarily for its software scene — in addition to being the live music capital of the world. VCs invested over $5.5

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. There are many times when being overly capitalized before you’re ready is a negative. Availability of Capital.

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APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. I saw it myself in 1999-2002 when it was hard to charge for my product because all of my competitors raised large rounds of capital and were giving away their products free fueled by large VC rounds. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. So get out there and start raising your capital! Seems an obvious fit.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I'm so excited to hear that Indeed.com, a company that Union Square Ventures invested in while I worked there, just exited for a reported billion dollars. Back in 2005, I was a lowly analyst at Union Square Ventures with a million product ideas that I'd blog about all the time.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 13, 2020

About CEVG Formed in 2005, the Clean Energy Venture Group is an investment group with offices in Boston and New York which provides seed capital and management expertise to early stage clean energy companies. We want to leverage the synergies allowed by this unique combination and complementarity across the country.

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JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. At GRP Partners we’re all in on Los Angeles having written about $35 million in early-stage venture capital investments in this market alone in the past six months. Nearly everybody in the DC region had told me, “You must meet Mike.

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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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JUNE 22, 2011

I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. source: Capital IQ. In any given year there are about 50 venture-backed companies or so that are bought for $100 million or more. source: Capital IQ. And well they should be.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2016

For all the talk about late stage rounds, megarounds and unicorns, early stage startups are benefitting disproportionately from near-record years of venture capital investment. That figure is up from 18% in 2005. On average, 25% more early stage startups raise capital in the last five years compared to 1995-2000.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Siegler’s career in startups began in 2005, working in web development at a startup agency focused on tech clients. He later reported on startups at both VentureBeat and later TechCrunch, before becoming a founded partner at CrunchFund and then eventually joining GV (then Google Ventures) to focus on early stage companies.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

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