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. A few other VCs had been blogging before, but no one had gone as far as to make the whole front facing effort of their firm into something so interactive. It changed the way we worked with entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

SkyCell , a Swiss company developing smart containers for transporting medicines and vaccines, is announcing a significant round of funding. Essentially, SkyCell has developed a shipping container that maintains temperature, controls vibration and is outfitted with sensors that continuously report the status of the cargo.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

financing back in 2005, “climate change” was some future event. So what do we do about it, and how do we allocate our money, time and brainpower to develop solutions? The amazing speed during the pandemic to develop and use vaccines, new monoclonal antibody treatments and ventilator technologies saved lives. Share on Twitter.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015.

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Venture Hacks

APRIL 17, 2019

Valuations for pre-traction companies between 2005-2010 were $1-5M pre-money for the first non-friends-and-family round. Avoid companies that don’t develop meaningful technology (either software or hardware). In the old days, you had to work at a VC firm to see dealflow. Anecdotal valuation data. Invest only in technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. And I certainly didn’t want him having to trapse up-and-down Sand Hill Road informing every VC of his next idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

” Your VC friends have been egging you on. We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. The don’t understand VC liquidation preferences or multiple return expectations. It is because when you share too much of this information with staff you develop an “options culture” the I find unhealthy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

He turned me down for a job in 2005. Can you please intro me to XYZ VC? Research & Development. I know it’s different as a VC than as a startup company providing a product or service. It’s an entrepreneur with whom I’ve been wanting to work for 6 years. Yesterday I offered him a term sheet.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. Not so VC. Reputation – Equally, the investor might not be worried about squeezing out your existing VC, per se, but doesn’t want to develop a reputation as a VC with an edge. It is 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. I tell my wife to assume that money is lost.&#.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 13, 2020

These connections, which are part of the DNA of both E8 and CEVG, are extremely valuable to develop a high quality deal flow, a strong due diligence process and very importantly, to help support companies post investment by providing relevant connections to advisors, team members, customers and other relevant entities in each region.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. None of the local VC firms invested. from Sequoia Capital and have gone on to raise over $1 Billion from VC investors. Back in 2005 no one anticipated the success of YCombinator, not even its founders.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

How tech startup fundraising changed from 2005 to now. In 2005, when Y Combinator started, there was already a well developed ecosystem of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and Boston. VCs preferred to fund companies that already seemed like a sure bet – in other words, were far along.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

A survey of US-born founders of 502 engineering and technology companies, founded between 1995 and 2005, showed that only 10% of founders had a Ph.D. Investments in European deep tech grew in absolute numbers, however during 2015–2020 it remained between 20–26% of all VC investments. Leading VC funds by the number of unicorns backed?—?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Not a chance.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Market Size.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. I believe that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). Rumored to be appox.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Topics we discussed in the first 45 minutes of the video include: What is VC like in NY? Social network app developer and ad network.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. To really assess what opportunities the VC industry has over the next decade, one needs to first look at some of the root causes of poor returns in the past decade. The number of venture capital funds has shrunk by two-thirds.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. This enabled them to unlock further funding as VC-backed growth companies over time. Developing a regulatory sandbox to support financial innovation at early stages The UK was the first market in the world to create a regulatory sandbox.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2013

From the experience in my earliest days of designing products for Windows and OS2 machines in the early 1990′s I developed a product philosophy, “Design for the novice, configure for the pro.” We built our product at Koral in 2005 with this design philosophy in mind. They often have little or no design experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Let me give you another simple example from my experience as a VC at Upfront Ventures. When we went to raise funds we faced lots of competition as there are of course many other VC funds in the country. I think that’s where many startups and even VC funds go wrong. This is true for startups, too.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

A significant event came with acquisition by AOL of the the ICQ messaging system developed by Mirabilis. The Yozma Programme (Hebrew for “initiative”) from the government, in 1993, was seminal: It offered attractive tax incentives to foreign VCs in Israel and promised to double any investment with funds from the government.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.

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