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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

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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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 UK Is a Fintech Regulatory Superpower

Andreessen Horowitz

If you want to see the future of financial services regulation, look to the UK The foundation: UK’s banking market and infrastructure In 2010, the UK was dominated by a small handful of large banks. This enabled them to unlock further funding as VC-backed growth companies over time. or the rest of Europe.

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The gray revolution: Fundraising within the older adult space

TechCrunch

We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. The number of people worldwide who are 65 and older is expected to grow from 524 million in 2010 to 1.5 Older adults are the most underserved demographic for the tech world.

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Productsup raises $70M to help retailers navigate sales strategies in the choppy world of e-commerce

TechCrunch

The company has been around since 2010 and seems to have disclosed less than $24 million raised in that time, according to PitchBook data, while Crunchbase puts the total at $20 million. We’re the only provider who can enable companies to realise their global potential,” he told me in an email.

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The case for US venture capital outperformance

TechCrunch

Federal Reserve leading a global trend of interest rate hikes; an evolving European energy crisis; the first land war in Europe in 70 years; various supply chain disruptions; an ongoing global pandemic; growing global trade tensions, and, to top-off the sundae, a slowly collapsing Chinese credit bubble.

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Singapore-based retail analytics company Trax raises $640M Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and BlackRock

TechCrunch

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Singapore, Trax also has offices in Brazil, the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Israel, Mexico, Japan, Hungary, France, Russia and Australia. The company says it serves customers in more than 90 countries.