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The Founder’s Playbook: Winning Mindsets & Startup Strategies

American Entrepreneurship

Risk-Taking: He reinvested his entire PayPal earnings (~$180M) into Tesla and SpaceX, nearly going bankrupt in 2008. Resilience: SpaceX had multiple rocket failures before successfully launching into orbit in 2008. Problem-Solving: He tackles big problems (e.g., Lesson: Think big, take calculated risks, and persist through setbacks.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

Rob messed around with some local video thing in 2008, which everyone but Rob thought was a pretty terrible idea. " — Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) December 29, 2008. I thank Rich and his team, as well as David Orfao from GC for their support of my good friend long after I left First Round.

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What Will Happen In 2024

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. That is good news for the innovation economy because healthy capital markets are a necessary support system. However, optimistic capital markets are necessary but not sufficient for a healthy innovation economy.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5

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The Silicon Valley Bank Crisis: Resources and Information

Angel Capital Association

The move should restore confidence and keep startups solvent and their employees employed, but there likely will be some longer-lasting psychological effects relating to capital risk that we should all be on the lookout for. history, behind only the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual with roughly $300 billion in total assets.

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Plugo, an e-commerce support platform for D2C brands in Southeast Asia, picks up $9M Series A

TechCrunch

The company offers a complete spectrum of e-commerce support services for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, from making a website, setting up a payment system, and managing marketing to handling shipping, warehousing, and logistics. In other words, Plugo enables D2C merchants to focus on their products and supports other processes.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. I’m a venture capital investor so I will still be looking to make investments. In the end.