Both Sides of the Table

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. if you want to download the deck it’s here on SlideShare ) Why Did The Seed Market Emerge in the First Place?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As many of you know I run a weekly webcast called This Week in VC that’s getting between 25-35,000 weekly views across ThisWeekIn.com, YouTube & mostly iTunes. What is the mix of revenue between ads, subscriptions, digital downloads & ecommerce. Why did you raise VC from Polaris & how have they been to work with?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad Feld is a fountain of knowledge & wisdom. Is that when it became big?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

It’s a paradigm that caught the eye of investors, with Digital Alpha Advisors, a long-time telecom VC with close ties to Cisco, investing $185 million into the company in equity as well as a debt facility in exchange for revenue share (sort of the hardware version of SaaS securitization ).

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Y Combinator

APRIL 24, 2024

He'll tell us why he built Bump , why he chose to pivot it even after it saw many millions of downloads, and how that choice led to the creation of Google Photos. I sat down with David to hear more about his story so far, and I've shared that conversation below. I was really lucky to get to work with him for a bit.

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