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APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this series because if you better understand how VC firms work you can better target which firms make sense for you to speak with. It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5 What is a VC fund? VC’s don’t invest 100% of their own money.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. My blog was wiped out. And covered we did.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x growth from 2020 to 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I would argue that the shut-down of September 2009 was equally severe yet there are signs that this “VC Ice Age” has begun to thaw. This should not be confused with raising too much money as many companies did in 2006-08. Why did the VC markets freeze so quickly? Market downturn – We all know that investors move in herds.

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JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. OTHER DEALS: 1. MetaMarkets.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

But, beyond the classic Series A and B from your local VC, founders have myriad alternative funding routes they can take — like crowdfunding — to raise the money they need to grow. A new SEC regulation significantly increased the pool of money available through regulated equity crowdfunding from $1.07

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We have an outstanding cohort of VCs ready to hear their pitches and follow up with tough Q&As — and we’re thrilled to add three more to the slate. Did you miss the other Startup Battlefield VC judges? In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. Did you know?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. Current round: $7.0mm Series-B led by MK Capital, withClearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. Total raised: $10.5mm. See: TechCrunch. New capital to be used for international expansion and to challenge Skype.

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MARCH 6, 2016

In 2006 I started using Facebook and most of my friends & colleagues thought I was strange. In 2008 I started VC blogging. They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page? In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

In other words, at IPO, how much revenue per VC dollar did the company generate. Startups going public from 2006-2009 showed a median ROIC of 0.42. The era after 2006 and through the 2008 financial crisis was a different time to raise capital. The median revenue at IPO has increased from $55m in 2006 to $200m in 2018-2019.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I’ve recently taken a look at seed stage funding by venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors over the past five years. For VCs, I chose to look at all seed stage VC deals (from MoneyTree©) as well as those in five of the most active regions in the country. All Seed-VC. VCs in NYC invested, on average, only $2.4

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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. In 2005, it was a risky bet to join Union Square Ventures and plant my VC career here in NYC.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

After they tracked uninvested capital by year going back to 2006, the pair found that “a crisis within the investment landscape has often been followed by years of systematic outperformance of returns, and history has a way of repeating itself.” Jacquelyn has more.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 10, 2022

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the firm has built accelerator programs, corporate innovation services, and an in-house VC to make technological advancement progress faster than ever before. GK Plug and Play, the lead investor in this funding round, is is a global innovation platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. Enter Amazon.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 11, 2020

In 2006, VCs invested about $3.5B Aside from Q3 2008 which saw a dip, VCs were still investing in as many rounds. Valuations and round sizes were the main contributing factor to the decline in VC dollars invested. The most recent event to use as an analogy is the 2008 financial crisis. Let’s look at the data.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Adyen launched in 2006, and in June 2018, it was listed as one of Europe’s largest tech IPOs with a value of €7 billion. For this survey, we interviewed the following Amsterdam-focused investors: • Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC. Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC. Stefan van Duin , partner, Borski Fund.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

An early Google employee, Stone worked on the Blogger team after its acquisition, ahead of helping co-found Twitter in 2006. million euros) from VC firms Singular and Adjacent, Berlin’s angel syndicate SpotiAngels, as well as other individual investors, including Stone and Pinterest co-founders Evan Sharp and Ben Silbermann.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. But VC is like congress. As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US.

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JULY 22, 2010

I just want to figure out what a fair valuation is.&# I figured all the VC’s talked so we should. When I went to raise money in 2006 I thought I knew every term in a term sheet but somehow I still got a bit duped by the option pool shuffle. But this example above is all entrepreneur math, not the VC’s. million.

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APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Thank you. (if

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

I’ve been an entrepreneur since 2006. No VC, no employer, nobody wants to think about firing, but if it enters your mind, you probably should do it. And I think that’s because it is harder to get distribution. But if you can do it, it’s more valuable. Nobody wants to go there.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. I believe that.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Money is power, and VCs know it. It’s one of the reasons why so many founders perform inadequate due diligence on their investors, says Talia Rafaeli, a partner with early-stage European VC fund Kompas. “The best working relationships are those built on an equitable footing with honesty and clarity.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

San Francisco and Paris-based VC firm, Partech led the round. Between 2006 and 2010, CEO Wilkerson, then a journalist and researcher, spent a great deal of time using motorcycles ( Boda bodas ) for quick and flexible transport. The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 22, 2022

He is correct, AVC was like Twitter in the early days with upwards of four posts a day, which helped me see the value of Twitter when it launched in 2006. He observed: he treated the blog similarly to a twitter account before Twitter blew up, and then settled in to a daily posting habit for the next 15 years, slowing down a bit in the last 2.

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APRIL 6, 2022

At that time, most VC activity was dominated by the now-defunct Austin Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds. ATX will be the first midcontinent VC to have top decile performance two funds in a row,” he told TechCrunch. “It It is a true reflection of the vibrancy in the Texas ecosystem and having an operator approach at early-stage VC.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” VC firms have taken notice: notable investors in Atlantic Canadian startups include Breakthrough Energy Ventures , a fund supported by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 22, 2021

For those that don’t know, the word Freemium was invented here at AVC, back in 2006. I could not help but use the word Freemium in the headline to this post. I am quite proud of that fact, even though I did not come up with the word myself. With that business taken care of, let’s move on to the topic of the day.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages. It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC. True Ventures – When I was raising capital for my second company back in 2006 I had talked to many brand-name VCs and had several term sheets. Not versus every other VC but versus many. I know that I call them often to co-invest.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

My primary role was “chief psychologist&# and as I’ve learned over the past few years the same has been true as a VC. Chief Psychologist As a VC – I am surprised by the extent to which my role as a VC has continued this “chief psychologist&# trajectory. Both are basically people businesses.

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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. By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

How to start a VC fund without being rich already. CEO Andrew Grauer says Symbolab’s algorithm isn’t something that Course Hero, which has been operating since 2006, can drum up overnight. 4 takeaways from fintech VC in Q3 2020. Course Hero, in contrast, is a broader service that focuses on Q&A from a variety of subjects.

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