A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

And we will see legacy applications embrace AI to make their products better and to remain competitive with the AI-first disrupters. There are opportunities every which way I look to back founders and founding teams building these new technologies. AI developed for over forty years before its coming out party. USV TEAM POSTS:

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Startups are known to disrupt the markets, and this disruption usually ends up in developing totally new demand for its offerings. Such demand and other metrics of a disruptive startup, when represented in the form of a graph, form a shape of a hockey stick.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. Markets have reacted, and valuation multiples for both public and private companies have been heavily compromised, leaving growth investors in fear of losing the opportunity to secure targeted returns.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

The company based in Lagos, Nigeria, was founded by Emeka Emetarom , Obi Emetarom and Wale Onawunmi in 2008. “Appzone is building a disruptive fintech ecosystem that will be the backbone of Africa’s finance industry with products across payments, infrastructure and software as a service.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Large hedge funds over time hit liquidity limits and start impacting market pricing when they trade, losing their ability to exploit arbitrage opportunities. This negative externality is unique to financial services and was particularly obvious in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2019

This is a transformational opportunity that we as a state can address. At this moment, if we want to seize the opportunity, we need to invest in these activities that advance the application of our state’s research and development to local companies that create high paying jobs. Not seizing opportunity hurts us all.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 9, 2022

While Terra’s crash disrupted crypto markets, it didn’t affect the wider mainstream financial sector, but that won’t stop regulators from seeing this as a huge red flag. At a fundamental level?—?whether whether it’s individual users, protocol builders, financial institutions, or governments?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

So we want to generate a one-stop shop for entrepreneurs, investors and the rest of the ecosystem to access all of opportunities of collaboration between the central government, regions and CP councils in order to improve entrepreneurship in their respective areas,” says Polo.

startup

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Sure, when s**t really hits the fan, like in 2008, and the whole market goes haywire, everyone's going to feel it, but in any kind of normal environment, hedge fund returns should be largely uncorrelated to anything else. I experienced that myself with my startup in 2008 and 2009. Those companies didn't execute as well as they should.

real estate

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. While they currently allow international funding opportunities, the bar is set at a different level.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

Here are some of the fifteen tactics that industry leaders, Nobel Laureates, and disruptive upstarts have used to build mutual prosperity for shareholders, the planet and the local community. In the United States and beyond, such extraordinary wastefulness is an opportunity of epic proportions.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Major capital market disruptions often bring a “VC Reset,” as venture firms rethink fundamentals, often pressured to do so by limited partners. Recovery from the 2008 Great Recession took two years and was relatively weak. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset? When will today’s moribund IPO market recover?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

If you had adopted that, this was a logical next step that you could apply, which again, was like a playbook that you could run over top of a new technological disruption that had happened. In 2008, I started a business called RJMetrics, which was basically the first SaaS analytics platform. And this is my third SaaS company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

While DocSend has 17,000 customers, Houston says the acquisition gives the company the opportunity to get in front of a much larger customer base as part of Dropbox. Both Dropbox and SendDoc participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield with Houston debuting Dropbox in 2008 at the TechCrunch 50, the original name of the event.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

” I suspect that over the next 18 months, they’ll see another phenomenon that they likely haven’t seen since 2008-09: mark-downs of the VCs’ portfolios. But of course, for every angle of the market where one person sees caution, another spots opportunities. Final upfront lp survey data 2016 from Mark Suster.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 20, 2023

We believe these sectors will continue to show strength and resilience through economic cycles and yield compelling investment opportunities for CSP Fund II,” Partner Chakrabarty said. Basil, that was founded in 2008, is a private equity firm that invests in niche technologies disrupting the IT services space.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

If that entrepreneur has enough money to conservatively make it work (but not quickly), he or she can go it alone, but the business will not scale quickly and it may lose its niche opportunity. As the business grows, however, some of those differences can become major disruptions. Partners can assist greatly with capital and effort.

energy

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them,” reports Tim De Chant. But when Uber rolled out service in San Francisco in 2011, it really transformed the way people got around.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

In 2006, Google had the opportunity to buy YouTube. But startups are all about disrupting industry standards. They launched SEMrush at the height of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. But she took the job anyway and quickly rose through the ranks. billion acquisition of the video platform. “I I wasn’t focused on revenue.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 25, 2015

Since my co-founders and I started Invoca in 2008, my role as founder-CEO has broadened from proving a concept and building a team to managing personnel and scaling operations. It’s also made harder by the fact that the process is kept private from nearly everyone in order to avoid disruption. It took six months, but it paid off.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

For Tom Patterson, CEO of the men’s underwear startup Tommy John , disrupting a saturated industry meant solving problems people came to believe they just had to live with. “In In 2008, I was a medical device salesman frustrated with the fabric, fit and functionality of my undergarments,” says Patterson.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 20, 2023

And not to get too far ahead of myself, but some (including me) have maintained that a disruption in some part of the US financial system in 2023 was going to force the Fed to reverse the tightening cycle we’ve been in for the past year — and it would appear that we’re right on track. Right off the bat, the Fed implicitly printed $4.4

real estate

Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

Seizing on this window of opportunity, Kuroda-dono and Lady Lagarde chimed in: “Well, Sir Powell, we’d like to see you prove it! The result is that any disruption to the flow of energy will quickly cripple the Japanese economy, as it has no way to quickly produce energy internally. The hikes announced Tuesday, set to take effect Oct.

energy

TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The global thirst for an up-charged pair of Yeezy’s or limited edition Jordan’s combined with a growth in a digital ecosystem is creating new opportunities, particularly in the sneaker resale market, for companies like Kicks Crew , a Los Angeles- and Hong Kong-based sneaker and apparel platform.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

These include small manufacturers, not-for-profit organizations, and mom-and-pop companies without a lot of budgets to combat security threats and avoid business disruption. This is simply because there is a greater opportunity for success against SMBs. And this makes them very attractive targets for hackers to achieve financial gain.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them,” reports Tim De Chant. Goin’ retro, with a 15-year-old pitch deck : Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008 , by Haje. You can sign up here.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

In 2008, iGoogle represented 20% of traffic to Google. Mobile’s frequency of use is the reason for its disruptive nature. The products that once dominated the web no longer fit the mobile users’ needs and present a huge opportunity for new products and companies to seize. iGoogle is dead. Mobile killed it.

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