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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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I am excited to share the news of First Round Capital 's recent investment in cloud-to-cloud backup service Backupify. Josh Kopelman will be working closely on this investment as well. Joining our investment in the $900k round were General Catalyst, Betaworks, Jason Calacanis, and Chris Sacca.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. To some extent Keith Rabois agreed with me about domain knowledge and argued that most of his investments are in the consumer Internet space as a result. Always have been.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 27, 2024

Last week the Mayor and Invest Newark announced $1.2 It includes encouraging businesses to create private sector jobs through public and private investment. “These grants are not just investments in businesses, but investments in our community’s future,” said Marcus T. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. Axios reported that this was 211% over the number of dollars invested in 2020. ?. Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

So in 2005, he launched reCAPTCHA. Carnegie Mellon, crowdsourced translation and even Google would all play a role in his next project as well, albeit in wildly different ways: incubation, failure and investment. These new tests would have the same goal of CAPTCHA, but with a twist: the prompts would all be scans of books.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. In 2020, the venture industry continued to invest in startups, despite the COVID-19 crisis. Booking.com started in 1996 and was later acquired by Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) in 2005.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. And UK institutions continue to invest: This summer, Mastercard, Barclays and the London Stock Exchange Group announced a £1 billion fintech fund to back British growth-stage fintech companies. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While Nexon has been a regular participant in G-STAR every year since 2005, they did not attend during special circumstances such as internal issues in 2019 and the pandemic in 2021. A company representative stated that they plan to concentrate on developing new games and strengthen their internal operations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. This will offer participating companies grants worth 40% of an investment round up to $1.1

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2005, he helped to launch the startup Bazaarvoice, which provides data about retail customers’ shopping habits. . This requires investment, but also a cultural shift around how enterprises view and collaborate around data.” “We believe that leaders should view their data supply chain like their actual supply chain.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

In addition, he created Ecliptic Capital, a $100 million evergreen investment fund that could grow to $150 million by the end of the year. Ecliptic Capital provides seed-stage, and early-stage investment to startups. government essentially shut them down in 2005, he said. Whurley pitched him to invest in the company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. 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.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We never worked like the lion’s share of startups when you invest $ 1,000,000 that pays off after 10 years. When we entered the eLearning niche in 2005, interest in online education and eLearning solutions was just beginning. Invest 80% of your resources in the direction that generates the fastest and best profit for you.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VCs invested over $5.5 billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. S3 Ventures founder and managing director Brian Smith notes that when he started the firm in 2005, venture capital in Texas was finally starting to recover from the dot.com bust.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Now, everyone sees Google as this huge company with endless products and expansive teams, but back in 2005 when I worked there, it didn’t seem like a megacompany. I started angel investing and it gave me exposure to a fantastic and wide variety of founders and innovative ideas.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. But if you invest smartly, and spread your risk over a large portfolio, the winners will pay for all the losers and return a nice overall profit.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

Investments in European deep tech grew from €0.7B I’m looking at the following trends and their interpretations: PhDs supply/academic demand encourages researchers to turn to entrepreneurship; Investing in Ph.D. Investment trends Surprisingly, the share of startups where at least one founder has a Ph.D. in 2010 to €9.6B

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 13, 2020

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Earlier this week the Clean Energy Venture Group (CEVG) and E8 Angels announced a partnership for national climate tech angel investing with the goal to achieve greater efficiencies and impact. CEVG and E8 are both obviously very passionate about creating positive and sustainable environmental change.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on my background. I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. I’m actually a big believer that you do want to invest in your onboarding, which of course to your point is, it’s a lot of re resource time when you’ve other things to do. She’s got an English degree and an MBA. And I joined as a customer support rep.

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MARCH 25, 2016

What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

My beliefs are validated by other entrepreneurs who have grown their companies rapidly and have taken a lot of outside investment, only to experience total chaos and frustration. In 2000, I started writing educational skincare content, which led to the creation of my popular skincare blog in 2005. It’s been going strong ever since.

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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.

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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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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