This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

YCombinator had a great run from 2007 through early 2009 investing at a time when there weren''t nearly as many seed funds and accelerators as there are now. Considering the myopia at the top, it''s not surprising that turning point may have already happened for YCombinator. YC''s best investing days may be behind it.

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JUNE 18, 2015

I know that I had things easier as a new VC because I came into the business in 2007 when the market was frenzied like today but an order-of-magnitude less so and the world wasn’t living in public.

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JANUARY 17, 2012

In fact, it’s what Henry Blodget told me I should do the first time I met him--back in May of 2007 during a pre-Business Insider lunch at Coffee Shop. I was no different--and the possibility of doing something on my own has been a long term goal.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 14, 2019

USV seeded Tumblr along with our friends at Spark in the summer of 2007 and were actively involved in the development of the company until its sale to Yahoo! I maintained an active Tumblog from before we invested in 2007 until October 2016, when I stopped posting there. There was no moment when I decided to stop posting there.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

What might be a more relevant date is May 22nd, 2007. Three years ago today, I grabbed the domain name BrooklynBridgeVentures.com. It''s kind of a funny answer to "When did you start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?". That''s the day I sat down for lunch at Coffee Shop with Henry Blodget, just six days after Silicon Alley Insider launched.

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MARCH 6, 2016

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

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JUNE 12, 2010

Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Formed in 2007 by UPenn students, Nat Turner, Scott Becker, Michael Provenzano, and Zach Weinberg, in Philadelphia. -Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. InviteMedia (acquired by Google).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

It’s a non-fiction story of many of the players at the heart of the financial crisis that became exposed in 2007/08. The Details: I recently finished reading “ The Big Short ” by Michael Lewis. It got me thinking about how in poker and in investing there are usually a few pro’s at the table and many suckers.

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JUNE 12, 2013

When I joined GRP Partners in 2007 I was offered a role as a General Partner. ” OK, I could be an advisor to your company but if I intro them to X I’d like to get an additional % option grant at your company. And then I think about me. My philosophy was simple. “I’ve never been a VC before.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

In 2007, I met Rob May for the first time in person at the first SXSW I ever went to. In 2010, I funded his company, Backupify , which has gone on to raise over $19 million in funding and is set to have their best year of revenue to date. I didn''t meet Rob at a big flashy party.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

As I reflect upon the journey’s I’ve taken as a VC since 2007 I realize that the ones I was best at – and that I enjoyed the most – are ones that began by falling in love. Whenever somebody has a car startup I send it straight his way. I haven’t met any VC better connected and more thoughtful in this space.

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MARCH 24, 2014

I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 years ago. I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. That company was Invoca, which just announced a $20 million fund raise led by Accel.

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

Since 2007, the number of businesses owned by Black women has grown by 163%. Women own 40% of all businesses in the United States, according to the American Express research. Of those businesses, the same research shows 47% are controlled by minority women. That’s more than double the percentage in 1997.

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MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in 2007. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2011

I was at SXSW in 2007--the "Year of Twitter". In the days to come, there will be a lot of back and forth analysis over who "won" SXSW and whether or not there was a breakthrough technology to watch out for. It stems from the Austin conference's reputation for being a kingmaker. But where did that come from and is it well deserved?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I didn''t actually get to meet him in person until SXSW in 2007. He was an interesting guy and I watched him throughout a bunch of interesting projects, like a complete open source business where all the employees got to make the decisions. That was the year Twitter took off.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

For example, people think that it happened at SXSW with Twitter in 2007—but they forget that a small but dedicated mass of people were already on Twitter ahead of the conference. It’s never usually the one article or one event that makes or breaks a company, even though people think that has happened with various startups.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. As you know, Time Warner eventually spun off AOL for peanuts.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Southern California*. Northwest. . $$$$. Deals. $$$$. Deals. $$$$. Deals. $$$$. Deals. $$$$. Deals. $$$$. Southern California = LA County, Orange Cty and San Diego Cty. Then, I looked at angel investment in the US over the past five years, as reported by the Center for Venture Research , in billions of dollars. Investment. Deals. $$$/deal.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

When Troy and Lady Gaga were introduced the market had been in a free fall from the financial crisis of 2007-09 and Troy had had some setbacks professionally while Lady Gaga was sleeping on her grandmother’s couch in West Virginia, having just been dropped by Def Jam Records. Same with Gaga. “It was a series of inflection points.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2021

In 2007 I came across EO. Of course, I had a great group of people, and new friends, with me but I was sad that none of my old friends were there. The feeling of loneliness has appeared multiple times during the journey, especially during very stressful times in business where I felt I had no one to lean on.

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JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. I saw this kind of pricing when I first entered the VC market in 2007. So rounds tend to be “range bound&# where the top end of the valuation spectrum often being done in boom markets (i.e.

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

I was also deeply paranoid that a bad recession was coming (this was early 2007). I had foregone my VC term sheets to accept an offer yet I knew it wasn’t 100% probability to close – it never is. I know that sounds like Monday-morning quarterbacking but you can ask anybody around me – especially my wife. Yet focused.

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MARCH 6, 2015

By fund II (2007) he was able to raise $15 million (if you watch the video you’ll hear an interesting story of how he did this) and he had a proper fund.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. Enter Facebook. Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

More importantly, I know them both for a while--Hilary since August of 2007 through twitter and, of course, getting to work with her at Path 101, and Kara since I used to e-mail her about her Boomtown columns in the WSJ over ten years ago. They're awesome and I'd show up to hear them speak anywhere.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Written for EO by Torsten Oppermann, co-founder of the marketing agency MSM.digital and EO member since 2007. . Torsten has been a member of EO since 2007. . . Would you jump for joy because of a basket of fruits, free coffee or a foosball table? Of course not. A lot of employers, however, seem to be missing this point.

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APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2018

A global finalist in the 2007 GSEA competition, he is now an EO Minnesota member who owns five businesses. In 2007, I competed in GSEA, starting with a local competition in Minnesota; from there I made it all the way to the Global Semifinals. Tyler Olson is one such GSEA alumni. We asked Tyler about his experiences.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. -Also offers premium ad campaigns to publishers by tracking reader intent, behavior, and demographics. Has 12,000 publishers, 700mm monthly page views and 53mm daily unique visitors. Competitors: Google. Total raised: $18.3mm. Read more: TechCrunch.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2021

The even bigger issue to making home automation ubiquitous is cost: Since 2000, the cost of homes has outpaced household income in all but the years 2007–2012. So, home affordability is a real issue that is top of mind of every production builder in North America.

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APRIL 2, 2010

If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals. If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus , Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler. -Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. Total Raised: $366mm.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so. This is evidenced by the current price creep that we’re experiencing for early-stage deals. The only solution as an investor is to sit the market out as Chris Sacca said he’s inclined to do.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I saw VCs doing crazy things in 2007-08 when I first entered the VC market – crazy prices, limited due diligence, large funding rounds. The professor showed that there is a big increase in volume of buyers as a market peaks and a big increase in selling as the market is falling. I avoided much of this.

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APRIL 5, 2010

In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. We had the consent of the acquiring company to take them yet US regulation prohibited it. So BuildOnline kept the employees on their books and they did subcontracting work for our company, Koral. You can imagine the complexities. They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 5, 2017

s COO in 2007. The COO and friend I let go in 2007 is now a super-successful consultant who enjoys better hours, projects he loves and higher pay. By Brian Scudamore, founder and CEO of O2E Brands. Firing is just as important as hiring, so why do we rarely get it right? We were both “visionaries”—full of big ideas and blue-sky dreams.

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