Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Above is a chart of US VC investments (in number, not investment size) normalized by stage since 1997 using data from the NVCA. If our assumption about the data quality is correct, then it’s reasonable to conclude that the volume of seed investment has either remained constant or slowed since 2009. An entrepreneur’s takeaways.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

None of the local VC firms invested. from Sequoia Capital and have gone on to raise over $1 Billion from VC investors. Despite deep local roots in Boston and strong ties to Harvard and MIT, they decided to shut down Ycombinator Cambridge and moved everything to Silicon Valley in January of 2009.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

Meanwhile, somewhere else in the underworld, the commercial WinPlay3 player that supposedly self-destructed after twenty uses had been cracked, enabling full functionality. The evolution of music labels can therefore provide a relevant blueprint for the VC industry.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They need to be focused on housing cost, transportation crime, and the kind of zoning that enables a critical mass of interesting local businesses to thrive. In 2005, it was a risky bet to join Union Square Ventures and plant my VC career here in NYC. Mayors don’t build startup cities. They can’t make a place a “bitcoin city”.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

When Marc and I started the firm in 2009, the conventional wisdom in Venture Capital was that in any given year, only 15 companies would ever generate $100M in revenue and those 15 companies would drive almost all of VC returns. I am pleased to announce that we have just raised $7.2B This marks an important milestone for us.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

According to PitchBook , VC investments were down 30% in Q2 2022 compared with 2021, and IPOs hit a 50-year low. When deal-making slows, VC dollars typically favor the perceived market leader, starving other venture-backed businesses in the same space of capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc).

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founded in 2009 by top scientists in the fields of aging, genetics and biology from Harvard, MIT and Tufts, InsideTracker is a truly personalized nutrition and performance system, aiming to help people optimize their bodies from the inside out. 14 for VC 101 for US investors. Read more here. Join us online Dec.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. In fact, I am still active on two boards where I first invested in 2009. The industry has obviously changed enormously in 2022 but in many ways it feels like a “return to normal” that we have seen many times in our industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. That enabled us to bring Rob Bailey on board as the CEO and it was the best decision we could have made at the time.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 18, 2014

In addition to looking at gross numbers, let’s compare the growth rates from 2009 to 2013 of each of these buckets. more common in 2013 as 2009 and $75-100M rounds have doubled during this time frame. 30M-$50M and $150-$200M rounds rounds are 1.5x There is more capital flowing through the ecosystem than four years ago.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

Better Place was building the charging infrastructure to enable mass adoption of electric vehicles; it was led by a charismatic CEO, raised gobs of capital before that was the norm, and later imploded spectacularly. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Now in 2022, we’ve taken both of these efforts to the next level.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It has also become one of the most confusing, as lines have blurred among early-stage VCs, private equity firms, hedge funds and dedicated growth-stage firms, all offering an abundance of capital and similar sounding value-add to high-growth startups. Since companies in the growth phase tend to encounter familiar growing pains (e.g.,

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 17, 2023

USV’s current thesis is: Enabling trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols. With the arrival of Bitcoin back in January 2009, we got a protocol that had monetization built in. We all use the SMTP protocol every day to send email.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

If you’ve always wanted to travel find a way to make this happen through your work or find work that will enable this. Next post: two “4-Hour Workweek&# like hacks I started in 2009 to try and take back control of my life that are saving me hours. When I went it was at the end of the last big recession. You CAN do it.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

million in seed funds from Sam & Max Altman’s Apollo VC and the student-focused Dorm Room Fund. It’s also adding private challenges this month — which will enable users to host and configure fitness challenges for themselves/family and friends, or larger groups, such as companies, clubs, or schools.

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