500

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. As one of the most active, early-stage investors in the world¹, 500 Startups has a unique perspective on the innovation economy. Since 2010, we’ve.

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500

APRIL 28, 2020

Long before diversity and inclusion became buzzwords, we decided to make venture capital inclusive from day one at 500 Startups. Since 2010, we have expressed our commitment to those values in multiple ways. The post Why Investing in Female Founders Matters Now More Than Ever appeared first on 500 Startups.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Martino founded Bullpen in 2010 with a focus on post-seed, pre-Series A startups, and he led the fund’s investments in companies like FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. Startups should know how VCs work. startup) per month. Do startups need to conduct due diligence on a venture fund’s LPs?

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

I went back across the 21 investments I''ve made both at First Round and at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --a period that dates back to January 28, 2010, when I closed on Backupify. They went on to do other things besides their startup and connecting with them turned out to be really important. That was three years earlier.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

Are we headed for a long era of innovation in which startups are the new norm? In a way, startups have become kind of like the video game industry. And so it occurs to me that many startups in the consumer world are now truly hits driven like video games or movies. It seems almost incomprehensible that only 2.5 Non valuable.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2024

That study echoes anecdotes by leaders such as Sallie Krawcheck, CEO of Ellevest, who claimed remote work made her employees more productive but less innovative, and Sam Altman, two-time CEO of Open AI, who said that remote work undermined creativity for startups.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

My own track record as a VC across First Round Capital and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures actually starts in January of 2010, *after* the Airbnb class of Winter 2009. Let''s invite all the important venture and startup people people we know of--and don''t forget to throw in a few women, too.". What''s the coolest place to go to?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

If somebody doesn’t work in the tech startup sector I always hate to even have the debate. “Did you see how much she wasted?” I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. And it’s what I believe sets apart the tech startup culture more than any other sector out there. I look for survivors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. “We The program’s name reflects its focus on five pillars for startup success: Customer, Achievement, Recognition, Education and Social.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

My interest dates back to my 2010 investment in chloe + isabel back when I was with First Round. I''ve also run about 30 Kitchensurfing dinners across NYC for tech and startup folks in the last two years. I''ve been getting involved with a couple of different models related to labor marketplaces and platforms lately.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. Neither did Y Combinator, 500 Startups, TechStars, Amplify, Mucker and countless others. And importantly they play an important role in helping to introduce you to the right A-round VC based on your startup type. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” Startups are team sports because you’re all working on the same shared objective of the company. That’s what we’re trying to do at Upfront.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Consider the case of LegalZoom, one of our cities great startups. In 2010 the City of Los Angeles started trying to crack down on tax receipts of Internet startups allocating them to the least favorable gross-receipts tax bracket taking up their city tax by 500%. Startup Advice' The result?

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 22, 2015

In 2010, a bunch of techies got together to do the next year's NYC Triathlon. We stayed in touch, doing a couple of tris together, chatting about startups, and venture, life, etc. I'm excited to be able to finally announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures ' investment in Clubhouse , a company I agreed to back before I even knew what it was.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. Startup DNA. The idea immediately resonated.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

During the early recovery, however, VC-backed M&A rebounded and skyrocketed: Annual deal values eclipsed $30 billion in 2010, holding steady before ballooning above $70 billion in 2014. Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave. How can you avoid this unnecessary fate?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 28, 2022

So I saw this tweet by Semil Shah yesterday: A friend who works in an industry far from tech startups & VC asked what would be the single article I’d share to read on each topic. So I clicked on the link to my Competing To Win Deals post, which I wrote in 2010, and read it.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

West Michigan is smack dab between Ann Arbor/Detroit’s tech and startup hub emergence and Chicago’s new habit of minting unicorns about once a month. We’ll show you what we’re looking forward to hearing more about in 2022 with our top Grand Rapids startups to watch. Grand Rapids startups and tech companies to watch in 2022.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here are the big things that happened in tech, startups, business, and more in the decade that is ending today, in no particular order of importance. 2/ The massive experiment in using capital as a moat to build startups into sustainable businesses has now played out and we can call it a failure for the most part. in 2010 to 7.7%

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It serves as its primary investment vehicle for startups throughout the region’s growth journey, from pre-seed stages to the cusp of initial public offerings (IPOs). Established in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, 500 Global has a portfolio with $2.4 billion in assets under management.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts. Today, cities around the country are entering a period not unlike early-stage Detroit.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A 2010 study done by Enrico Moretti showed that the creation of a high-paying technology job creates a spillover of nearly five other jobs in that city. link] How High Rents Hinder Startup Activity was originally published in Revolution on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

VVSEAI Fund V’s substantial corpus includes a dedicated co-investment envelope of $50 million, which will be utilized to invest alongside the primary fund in startups led by women founders. More than 35 percent of startups in VVSEAI Fund IV boasted at least one woman founder.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2014, I published a post called Do Startup Require Less Capital to Succeed than 10 Years Ago ? Startups going public from 2006-2009 showed a median ROIC of 0.42. In 2010, one venture dollar bought $1.24 It’s tripled from about $92m to more than $300M since 2010. One venture dollar bought forty-two cents at IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

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. The media world now has its own leader running the largest YouTube multi-channel network startup. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012.

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500

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

back in 2010. The post Welcome Tony Wang as 500’s New Managing Partner appeared first on 500 Startups. As venture dollars increasingly shift towards being deployed outside of the U.S., firms need to be thinking about their strategy to manage the trend towards globalization. and spans more than 75 countries around the world.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

Current innovation frameworks–think lean startup or design sprint–emphasize speed and action over reflection and strategic breaks. In August 2010, after Thiel’s annual Singularity Summit event, Hassabis lined up along with scores of other hopefuls given literally one minute to pitch their ideas to Thiel.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In fact, Heddleston worked for Dropbox as a summer in intern in 2010. Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement. Houston and DocSend co-founder and CEO Russ Heddleston have known each for other years, and have an established relationship.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

. + This post unpacks offers an insiders’ view of some of the key strategic decisions that led to Techstars’ decline. ————– Techstars is – or was – one of the world’s best startup accelerator programs. Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

At the start of 2010, there was some unwritten VC industry conventions that have been tested, challenged, and upended in the last decade. I don’t have the data, but I’d bet the “minimum ownership” requirements VC funds started 2010 with have gone down dramatically. There are too many startups to keep track of.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 3, 2013

I led seven investments in my time at First Round Capital, starting in January of 2010. Because anyone with a basic knowledge of venture capital can figure out that when a startup with $39mm raised buys another company, it''s not a huge outcome. Sure, you lose the out, but you increase your chances of winning over the long run.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

It all started in 2010 with Klout. Including ff Venture Capital’s unique approach to finding deals and the services they provide to their startups. Every startup needs accounting and it’s often a huge distraction and non core. So why not offer this service to startups at cost? I wasn’t a believer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

Over the years I’ve written extensively about the downsides of convertible notes for startups such as here , here and here. The truth is that I’ve been warning about convertible notes since 2010 it was first declared that “convertible notes have won.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Capital is the fuel that advances scientific and technological innovation, and it means a life science startup can create products that benefit the world at large. There will always be ebbs and flows in funding, so here are five ways life science startups can optimize for success regardless of the economic climate.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 1, 2019

I wrote a blog post about this topic in November 2010 that has become one of the most searched on and referenced AVC posts of all time. However, the methodology in that blog post remains sound and is used by many startup companies. The reality is that these multipliers differ from market to market.

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