2005 disruption financing opportunity 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.
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JUNE 22, 2011
Or worse yet they may never get financed. Raise at “ the top end of normal &# but not so high that future financings in a corrected market become impossible. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.
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This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 26, 2011
What areas need to be disrupted? It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community. What areas are going to change? Android Backlash. What will Facebook do to things?
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AUGUST 9, 2011
I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. I have always believed that TV was ripe for disruption. Finance where needed. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. Cut where needed.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2021
Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 The paid had worked together before — founding their first online payments company, MOIP, in 2005. million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
Having gained 15+ years of experience in a range of businesses — from startups to conglomerates, and experience of Series A to private equity — I’ve had the opportunity to actually apply the tried-and-tested practices of hypergrowth, as well as offer the full stack of C-level support.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
This great Internet that has offered so much economic opportunity has also centralized wealth creation into the hands of relatively few people on a scale and in a timeframe never seen before. And no prizes for guessing who would benefit if this order was disrupted. So Where Do I Personally Net Out?
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