Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2013

You’re not a master of what’s on the menu and you don’t want to invest the time to parse through all of its complexities. We built our product at Koral in 2005 with this design philosophy in mind. The less you frequent the restaurant the more this is true. ” or your order from the specials.

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This is going to be BIG.

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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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I''m super proud of Rob, Ben and the whole Backupify team--and this is particularly special for me because Backupify was the first investment I ever made as a VC, and the first board I ever sat on. Maybe I should be writing that into my term sheets from now on: "If this crazy thing works, you have to invest in the next fund after you exit.".

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Investing Strategy. and Half.com.

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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. RockYou (US) was founded in Redwood City in November 2005 by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

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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. Now, the community is orders of magnitude larger and the number of investors who invest here has grown significantly. Twenty years ago, I got my first job. When I took the job, the New York startup ecosystem was nascent.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Share on Twitter.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2025

The investment in these programs aims to empower unconventional thinkersstudents who may not have thrived in traditional academic environments but possess the creative drive to tackle real-world challenges. million, the total external investment in the program is expected to reach $17.5 With anticipated matching gifts totaling $7.5

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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. The woman I was talking to said “like Malcolm Gladwell describes in Blink.” ” And I nodded affirmatively.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment). Just because the valuation in absolute terms isn’t a big difference does not mean that people aren’t paying higher than intrinsic value for these investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

VC’s don’t invest 100% of their own money. They raise money from institutions who want to have some allocation of their investment dollars in a category known as “alternatives,&# which is supposed to mean higher risk, higher returns. And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

<Small plug> – I invested in an awesome company called … awe.sm … that is a performance tracking tool that let’s you measure efficacy of channels like this (email, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc.) In 2005 they realized that this business was going to evaporate over night with the introduction of YouTube.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. I told him that our market was absolutely booming and was worthy of a commensurate investment. Invest they have. The whole movement to seed funds / early investments happened for a reason. He was a mensch. And I know that Mike agreed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I had a pre breakfast with a CEO of a company in which I invested talking about his next fund raising round. He turned me down for a job in 2005. Separately, in the morning I called a seed-stage investor in NY and talked to him about investing in one of my companies. Here’s my day today and how I bucketed it. Operations.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

However, this small time investment has paid me back in ways I never could’ve imagined. I first started my meditation practice back in 2005. Sitting alone in silence probably sounds like the worst way for a busy business entrepreneur to spend their precious time. Becoming a Mindful Leader.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). I first met Ethan in 2005. Let me not bury the lede. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

But I’m not one to take on the big investment banks – I’ll save that for somebody else. Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. It’s hard not to when you think about the amount of money that flowed into their coffers and the size of expected bonuses this year – of all years. Background.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. And just when I thought I had the deal that was worthy of bringing to investment committee the world changed. Let’s review all of our existing investments. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Because you have multiple forces at work.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

East Ventures Korea has appointed Sang Han as its first partner for the South Korea fund, which was launched in October in collaboration with SV Investment, a Seoul-based VC firm. Sang Han has extensive experience in venture capital, having started in 2005 as an assistant vice president at Walden International for Singapore and Beijing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. We spoke briefly about why.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. I have learned lots of lessons over the past 20 years about technology, entrepreneurship and investments. In my mind public debate is the highest form of democracy. It proves that you really have freedom of speech. Let me explain. So it goes with blogging.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 26, 2024

Founded in 2005 by a renowned coalition of innovators, including Dr. Finian Tan, Dr. Khalil Binebine, Dr. Jeffrey Chi, Dr. Damian Tan, Linda Li, and Raymond Kong, Vickers Venture Partners has firmly established its presence and influence in the global venture capital space.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2016

.’s annual GrowCo conference on Wednesday, the entrepreneur, investor, and Internet advocate divulged the most valuable lessons he’s learned since he launched the hugely popular website in 2005. –before coming back to lead Reddit. . Great founders don’t quit, but do adapt. But we like you two. We believe in you two.

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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. The VC invests a large amount of money upfront and takes a controlling ownership stake.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. the free YC Startup School courses).

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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. Redpoint, led by Geoff Yang , invested $11.5 of MySpace, Inc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The fresh investment will be used to fund IMVU’s product development and comes fresh off a restructuring at the company. Founded in 2005, NetEase is now known for its news portal, music streaming app, education products and video games that compete with those of Tencent. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Open source has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle is announcing a sizable secondary investment on the back of that growth. He added that this investment values the startup at over €2 billion (or over $2.3

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

You opened Urban Betty in 2005 and it’s been growing ever since. It was unfortunate because about a year earlier, I had invested US$10,000 on a new front desk for our flagship location, and so I wasn’t going to tear it down anytime soon. 5000 list twice! . What drives you?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2020

PJ, like many other business owners, feels that no one will ever care to the same extent, since they aren’t as deeply invested. The Jonas family has been raising goats and making goat milk soap since 2005. But of course there are always people willing to work hard and learn. . About Goat Milk Stuff.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 14, 2023

The individuals, who requested anonymity due to the confidential nature of the information, indicated that this new funding round would come after a S$150 million investment secured last year from 65 Equity Partners, a subsidiary of Singapore ‘s state investment entity, Temasek Holdings.

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