2005 education VC 
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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? Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. They can have some longer term impacts through educational institutions. They’re less impactful on a year to year basis.
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OCTOBER 14, 2013
When computers moved from “green screens” to Windows we – the educated, young, technophiles – easily grasped the concept. We built our product at Koral in 2005 with this design philosophy in mind. Sure, your friends and VCs are smart so I’m not saying don’t take input. I learned the hard way.
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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. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side.
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AUGUST 9, 2011
Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. VCs were very active in this period. But I guess you could say the same about VC. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. VC Ice Age Part 2 – Why the Market Started Moving Again? VC Ice Age Part 3 – What The Future Holds.
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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.
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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. I’ve finally cracked it.” They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000. ” Yes.
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