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Half Of All VCs Beat The Stock Market

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

These are the gross return multiples of all of the funds that are “mature” meaning the returns are pretty clear now: Multiple Year Of Initial Investment 8.66

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Betting Beyond the Bowl: Investing in Sweetgreen Was Always About More Than Salad

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something that sounds obvious today but was rare circa 2007. Greener Greens: At the root of Sweetgreen’s farm-to-table concept was a commitment to sustainability. The company was built around the belief that real people want real food?—?something

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Until we weren’t. Nobody cared about our valuations any more.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

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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Women entrepreneurs find success despite lack of access to investment capital

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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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How to Engage Employees—Sustainably

Entrepreneurs' Organization

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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What's next? How not to fail after the fanfare.

This is going to be BIG.

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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