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What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

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But I wrote about one other point that I wrote back in March 2010 so it’s clear I didn’t just dream this up after today’s panel. It basically boils down to: educate, entertain, have a dialog, don’t be boring and don’t sit on large panels (doh!). But I certainly could have written it about today.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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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. In particular part three talked about what happened if we saw a double dip in 2010-11 or a “lost decade.&#.

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How I learned to change the oil in my car and found a new office because of Shake Shack and a hackathon

This is going to be BIG.

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. Techcrunch Disrupt is where I met Steve and Jared from GroupMe and what led to me backing the company when I was with First Round Capital.

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The Future of Corporate Venture Capital

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In the decade since the Great Recession, we have seen digital upstarts – taking advantage of disruptive technologies from AI to IoT – reshape the economy and the corporate pecking order. Since 2010, we’ve. The following is an excerpt from 500’s CVC report. How has corporate venture capital changed?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. The ability to interact, transact and disrupt is an order of magnitude greater at broadband speeds than at 56k dial-up modem speeds. THAT is disruption.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010. Bad times are when M&A halts to a trickle and this is when many businesses are rushing to get exits. We’ll re-compare notes then. Investors are conformists by nature. I avoided much of this.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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Dana Settle (Greycroft) & I had led the first round of investment in the company in 2010 and we were looking for smart media investors to join us as investors in the company. 10 signs Internet TV is Ready to Disrupt the Industry. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. The Future of the Digital Living Room.