2010 investment strategy 
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. After I became co-managing director I pushed our firm to start adding more talent how had a mix of operational, startup experience and some form of investment experience.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 24, 2014
At the time I pointed out: “If I had realized exits almost certainly it would be because I invested in a company that failed. In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist? Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10.
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OCTOBER 25, 2019
Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. But the rate of change has accelerated and with it, the balance of internal versus external investment. We believe the new corporate landscape calls for new strategies.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JULY 27, 2021
Our first Opportunity Fund, raised two years later in 2010, has generated only 3.9x Our Opportunity Funds invest in the later stage rounds of our top-performing portfolio companies plus a few later-stage investments in companies that are new to USV. But even for the same strategy, you can get materially different numbers.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 16, 2014
The way I choose conferences and events, and my strategy once I''m there, is based more around who I''m going to back two years from now than it is who is raising now. If you meet someone at a pitch event, they''ve already got a company and they''re looking to close as quickly as possible. But does the data play that out?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
The VC industry has different segments in it that have different fund sizes, different investment amounts and different risk / return expectations. If you’re an angel you invest your own money and you have nobody to answer to except your spouse. If you invest it in startups you’re a VC professional money manager.
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JUNE 18, 2010
The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. DST invested $180mm last fall. Are “strategic investors&# (e.g.
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