2008 education venture capital 
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
Don''t get me wrong, I''m THRILLED that we''re going to have some new engineering campuses in NYC and that will pay dividends to the NYC tech community for years to come--only, we only just started educating students in a small starter version of the Cornell program. Education initiatives did not create the community.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. We're seeing, for the first time, investment and some disruption in huge areas like education, food, healthcare, government and even hardware based startups. In 2008, people weren't sure if we were heading into a complete financial collapse.
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AUGUST 9, 2011
By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. Venture capital is an industry best served up from 7-year aged casks. We did not.
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JUNE 12, 2010
We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. And what we think about Sequoia’s website , First Round Capital’s and True Ventures (we both like to copy stuff from True). Read more: MediaWeek.
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MAY 19, 2010
Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. Competitors: Knewton.
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MAY 7, 2011
In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. Lesson: As CEO, it is your responsibility to educate everyone and mediate the difficult tensions that can arise by removing excuses. Stackoverflow was created in 2008. His Tenure at Microsoft.
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so. Answer: Not much. And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel. It’s a shame.
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