American Entrepreneurship
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
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This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Next Wednesday night, I'm hosting a roundtable discussion between Brooklyn innovation community stakeholders on how to make this side of the river a better place to create, build businesses and grow. What kind of real estate will be available for innovative companies and where? At the time, though, we didn't know what we know now.
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This is going to be BIG.
JULY 14, 2013
I''ve always believed that investors make great community glue because they have a huge incentive for their local communities to thrive as places of innovation. Existing businesses need to understand the mutual benefit of innovation happening around them. They also have reason to connect to a wide variety of people.
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. These closed periods have more to do with trends in other markets or macro fears than they have anything to do with prospects for innovation. After that, we were pretty much back on track, growing every year.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Our investment in Kickstarter back in 2009 is an excellent example of that. Our interest in web3 which started back in 2011 was also grounded in the idea that new forms of funding are necessary to finance innovation and creative work. That has led to all sorts of interesting projects which are too numerous to mention here.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me. I believe the changes to the industry will be lasting rather than temporal change.
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