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My Investment in Hungryroot: A Tasty Lesson in Products vs. Services

This is going to be BIG.

By the time you get your food, you've gotten it days in advance of when you'd get your food if you were ordering from a service that preps it for you, enabling it to last longer in your fridge. I first met Ben on January 29th, 2011 at an SLP mentoring session. He was working on Village Vines, which became Savored.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 This has spawned growth in related VC-backed businesses like Burstly, TapJoy and Flurry who help enable real-time transactions in mobile apps.

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

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(If you want to watch my interview from 7 years ago it’s here or you can read the summary notes I wrote up ) Derek built Startup Grind from 2011 with 20 people in one room for a conference into a global phenomenon with 600 chapters all over the world and more than 2 million members.

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New Funds, New Era

Andreessen Horowitz

My partner Marc saw the new world coming and wrote about it in 2011 in a piece called, “Software is Eating the World.” Finally, we would like to thank our amazing Limited Partners who have enabled us to grow and innovate tremendously over the past 15 years. Shortly after we started the firm, all that began to change.

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Forsite Capital Closes Sixth Fund, focusing on Healthcare and Life Science Startups

American Entrepreneurship

With the recent closing of its Sixth fund of $900 million, the firm stands on a record of 47 IPOs, 28 mergers and acquisitions, and 58 FDA drug approvals since its founding in 2011. With over $3.5 billion now under management, Foresite’s team adheres to a data and science-driven investment strategy.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. SimpleGeo – Provider of simple, turnkey location based services to content publishers and online service providers looking to location-enable their applications or services. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

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America’s immigrants opened more than a quarter of all new businesses in 2011; per capita, they’re more than twice as likely to do so as people who were born here. The Startup Visa movement is aimed at a pain point that is near and dear to my heart.