Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

They do around 7% of the total VC-backed deals in the US per year or just under 40 deals / year on average (present year excluded!). Where I add commentary from myself or my fellow VC colleagues from our discussion after Jamie left I’ll put in red. They have data from surveys they did with corporate development officers (e.g.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists against the VC industry. It’s hard to say.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” This is what I wrote on that Quora answer from Sept 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. To really assess what opportunities the VC industry has over the next decade, one needs to first look at some of the root causes of poor returns in the past decade. The number of venture capital funds has shrunk by two-thirds.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. OTHER DEALS: 1. Hello, Chair.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing).

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

Having spent time around and then in the world of VC in the Bay Area during the last decade, I’ve been reflecting on how different norms in the industry have changed. At the start of 2010, there was some unwritten VC industry conventions that have been tested, challenged, and upended in the last decade.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

For VCs, I chose to look at all seed stage VC deals (from MoneyTree©) as well as those in five of the most active regions in the country. Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . All Seed-VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I know you have good knowledge of how the Internet is developing and have good intuition of what drives viral adoption, what local services are needed, what API’s need to be developed, etc. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. Access to Deal Flow. Domain Knowledge. I don’t believe these times will last.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. I found this investment strange since normally VC’s hate to bet on gaming companies. In my mind, not a typical VC investment. On the first point – think of Steven Blank’s customer development but for physical products.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

When Chantel asked investors for $3mm for her seed round back in 2010, people stood up and took notice. So if you're a super early stage with just a prototype, you might not think that a VC fund is the right fit for you--so you wind up at an angel group. VCs don't go later and angels don't go earlier. Venture investing is hard.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Now that he’s become a VC he’s promising me he’ll provide way more public information and discourse so please welcome him by following him on Twitter and better yet welcoming him with a Tweet of your own linking to his Twitter handle or this post. They did development in SF and had the ad sales team in NY.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 13, 2012

I first met Wiley Cerilli on April 23, 2010. A VC once said about him that "I'm not sure about the company, but I sure do want him reading bedtime stories to my kids."). It struck me that nowhere else were kids this age getting their personal development cared about in the same way.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This was the first episode where Jason wasn’t on the show, which gave me the chance to have another VC on the show to discuss deals. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. VC Financings: 1. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

Applications are due April 6th, 2010, the form is on the website and the Twitter address is @launchpadlad. When I kicked off Launchpad LA a year ago I had a few objectives: Create an ecosystem where all Southern California VC’s had the chance to work together more actively outside of the boards on which we mutually sit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

In part because as a VC I reached the longevity where you see some things fail and have to ask yourself, “would I readily work with that person again? I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. But I’ve been thinking a lot about failure in the past year or so. Why or why not?” I look for survivors.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Startups that developed the skills to execute a subscription business model with positive unit economics delivered fantastic returns to investors and capital flowed into this sector as a result. in 2010 to 7.7% now), and all but eradicated in China. Technology played a role in all of this.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I wonder what this company would look like in 2010 as an independent? But to understand how super-angels and not just VCs get in on this act check out Aydin Senkut’s record. We talked about her desire to sell the company for personal reasons rather than raise a large round of VC. I agreed to help.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

He became a VC at London-based Benchmark Europe (now Balderton) and then CEO of Endemol, a large multibillion media company best known for creating & owning global franchises for Big Brother, Deal or No Deal and other unscripted television. Ynon Kreiz is a force of nature in the media and tech sectors. billion deal to Disney.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

On Losing in VC. I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

On Losing in VC. I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. Especially for their stage of development. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital VC Industry. This is the market that Wonga serves and they are killing it! LendingClub. 24.5mm in Series C.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. from 2010 to 2019. and Latin America’s 2.8%. “By

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had finally appeared on the front cover of a magazine (TornadoInsider – then the top European VC magazine) but I felt so fat in the picture I never sent it to anybody. We set up a development center in India and I had to be there for three weeks to tour all of the prospective cities. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

And coming to the end of 2010 I feel a sense of reminiscence of some of the trends from a decade ago. I was reminded of all this this when I read a blog post by one of my favorite thinkers on the VC market, Bryce Roberts, who talked about “ unfundable companies.&#. Avoid the latest fads, trends or PR announcements.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. Kind of like a law firm (or VC firm) with four partners but shortened to just two, people dropped off his second two words. I would love to see FourSquare double down on web development and market it harder to its user base.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

In addition they are a platform (the OS part) where they’re encouraging developers to build third party apps on their platform. Given how much progress they’ve made since last year I look forward to tracking them and seeing where they end up by the end of 2010. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 14, 2019

USV seeded Tumblr along with our friends at Spark in the summer of 2007 and were actively involved in the development of the company until its sale to Yahoo! There was a time around 2010 and 2011 when Tumblr was the most engaging social platform that I was on. There was no moment when I decided to stop posting there.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. Thank you to my co-author for this essay, Paulina Symala, a Consultant at Oliver Wyman and a past intern of Versatile VC. Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? Expert Networks.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

In other words, at IPO, how much revenue per VC dollar did the company generate. In 2010, one venture dollar bought $1.24 If we look at the ROIC across IPOs across the last 12 years or so, we see that same initial dynamic of incredibly efficient companies in the 2010 and 2014 IPO cohorts. The chart above updates that analysis.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

In 2005, when Y Combinator started, there was already a well developed ecosystem of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and Boston. VCs preferred to fund companies that already seemed like a sure bet – in other words, were far along. In the venture creation model, the VC firm creates the company.

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Founders Coop

MAY 18, 2020

As operators, we were lucky to raise from some pretty amazing VC role models, people like Brad Feld at Foundry Group, Ethan Kurzweil at Bessemer Venture Partners, and Karan Mehandru at Trinity Ventures. But along the way we experienced many of the behaviors Fred’s post talks about, so we know how awful the experience of raising VC can be.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Concurrently, the number of funds raised in the eight-year period up to 2022 was 2,700 , up from 883 in 2010.

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