2011 advice education VC 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Competitors: Knewton. File sharing?
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 7, 2015
I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did. They now have a strong VC lead from Foundry Group and from experience when you get advice from Foundry it comes with authority, experience, empathy and the right amount of straight talk.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 14, 2014
It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Higher education. And while this data is from mid-2011 I can assure you that data is not going down.
Hunter Walk
JUNE 26, 2023
Chris Neumann: I’ve been lucky to have been a part of 5 startups going back to the late-90s, including two that were VC-backed (DataHero and Aster Data). If you could magically give one piece of advice to every founder seeking venture capital what would it be? Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada?
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 21, 2011
Will you get the TechCrunch bump, the tier-1 VC anointment, followed by great PR firm support and then the NY Times or WSJ story that follows? So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. Not every problem has to be a huge VC-fundable business.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JUNE 14, 2023
The company started in 2011 and built what I still think is the best free learn-to-code product online. not professional software engineers) Short/Intermittent usage patterns across all users — E.g., they show up for a few weeks/months to learn something, then leave for a while, then maybe come back in a few months/years.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 8, 2020
“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success.
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