2009 capital disruption 
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JUNE 28, 2011
In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. Dave McClure argued passionately that since the overwhelming majority of exits are sub $100 million we need to readjust how much capital goes in. We picked up activity aggressively in 2009. Answer: Not much. VC is different.
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This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
Well, they did ask David Chao of Doll Capital, who said that the " frothy bubble is over ". 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.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. I have always believed that TV was ripe for disruption. Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs.
This is going to be BIG.
OCTOBER 3, 2014
In 2009, I was introduced to Havi Hoffman. After seeing my ability to bring a big community together, she wound up introducing me to TK because he was running a hackathon of his own around the first Techcrunch Disrupt in NYC in 2010. She was working as a developer evangelist at Yahoo! More detail from Tarikh below.
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JULY 26, 2022
We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2010
They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Bad times often require more capital but ironically this is when capital is dried up. But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. I avoided much of this.
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