Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

You’ve had a few difficult years outside of work – I feel confident 2014 is going to be a great one! I’m thankful to the founders of the companies that I invested in where the business has been on a crazy growth trajectory over the past year or two. I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Rondell Hamilton is the founder of Rennie’s Orphanage and Animal Rescue (ROAR) in Trinidad, a nonprofit organization managing the rehabilitation, repopulation, and rescue of wild animals. By Jewelle Saunders. Rondell was trying to become a medical missionary when he was diagnosed with brain tumors.

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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

The Baltimore-based startup graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2014. In Net Health, we saw the strongest possible partner to realize our goal of a fully-connected wound care continuum," said Tissue Analytics CEO and Co-founder Kevin Keenahan. Tissue Analytics, Inc. Tissue Analytics, Inc.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

But 2012 me, a first-time half-Latino half-African-American founder from Costa Rica, coming from a university these guys had never heard of, nope. We foreign/minority founders come with increased risk, and that's the hard truth. In mid-2014, Caya started Slidebean. If you can raise money, do it.

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Post-AOL, I dedicated myself to backing and supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs as Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Revolution. At the same time, industries that once powered cities in the middle of the country have suffered, leading to an outflow of potential founders and tech employees and creating what I call the possibility gap.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Sometimes when you’re in the zone as a founder, a case of the twisties can utterly derail progress. As a consultant to many of the world’s most innovative global brands as well as motivated founders looking for a jump-start, it’s important to be able to know what steps along the way are absolutely necessary and which ones are nice to have.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

I have a portfolio where 50% of the investments have founders that come from diverse backgrounds—and yes, I want them to get money from all of the still-active funds on Uber’s cap table that benefitted from the IPO.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Register According to iLife * founder Nelson Lee, roughly $200 billion in premiums are signed annually in the U.S. Founded in 2014, they are an early-stage venture capital firm that’s active in both the US and Asia, with a total AUM of 400 million USD. This article is part of a partnership with Cherubic Ventures.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 17, 2020

I met the founders and was happy for them. Crypto was helpful for me back in 2013 and 2014 when I was going through one of those periods. It was as fun to play it as it was to play Turntable back in the day. Then I woke up. Investments that don’t work haunt me. It isn’t the losing money part.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

Contributed by Julia L F Goldstein, the founder of JLFG Communications , which helps businesses share their world-changing ideas through clear and concise content. When I moved to Washington State in 2014, I initially registered my business as Julia L F Goldstein Communications. If you didn’t, should you do so? Running a business.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

If 2024 Kieran could whisper something into the ear of 2014 Kieran, what would you have told her about the difference between leading a team vs leading a company? It’s also not an accident that, upon stepping back from being Textio’s CEO, I’ve built a sizable exec coaching practice working largely with early stage founders.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Co-founders Emmanuel Straschnov and Josh Haas spent seven years bootstrapping and tinkering with the product before securing a $6.5 Interestingly, according to Straschnov, Insight was the first venture firm to reach out to Bubble all the way back in 2014. million seed round in June 2019 led by SignalFire.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. Our theme for 2014 is “teach a firm to fish” where we build more scalable support for portfolio companies. Just ask Rob Bailey. Most firms hire associates straight out of MBA programs and usually it is a “2-3 years and out” type of job.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

In 2014, Young and Cavins invested their life savings into Outdoorsy, sold their homes and jumped into an Airstream Eddie Bauer trailer. The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity. . Why not open it up to RVs?

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

What connects these two brands is that they were both elevated to overseas success by the same person, Fujin Tree Group Founder Jay Wu. Founded in 2014, they are an early-stage venture capital firm that’s active in both the US and Asia, with a total AUM of 400 million USD. I knew it might be a huge opportunity.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. Co-founder discontent. What would this founder do if he got an offer to be acquihired quickly by Facebook?

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 21, 2025

[While I’m going to focus on investor secondary here, I support common share sales as well – for example, back in 2014 writing “ Getting Some Founders Early Liquidity Can Benefit VCs ” during a period where many founders were being shamed for even asking about taking some money off the table.]

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love.

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HPA

JANUARY 8, 2025

HPA led the first round of institutional capital in 2014, providing subsequent capital and strategic support to help drive growth and innovation. The firm invested in the founder’s vision and shared Smith’s belief that the company could revolutionize the way food is made to positively impact people and the planet.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

Clearly the founders and senior executives of a company are the most valuable resources and their time should be maximized on the most valuable tasks. I watched Ophir Tanz achieve much in his early days at the Founder & CEO at GumGum, which has now become quite a large business. I have written about the next phases many times.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Register “Young musicians today treat music-making kind of like playing video games,” says PoChang Wu, co-founder of OurSong, an NFT-based platform for music collection and community building. Founded in 2014, they are an early-stage venture capital firm that’s active in both the US and Asia, with a total AUM of 400 million USD.

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HPA

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Congrats to Divey Gulati and Dhruv Saxena, the co-founders of ShipBob, for being listed in the 40 Under 40 Class of 2022 list from Crain’s Chicago Business. Gulati and Saxena created ShipBob in 2014 as they saw a need for more efficient shipping for ecommerce businesses. Read more in Crain’s Chicago Business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

Video 2 is here : In part two of the group discussion Dave asked us about the trend of founders and early investors being able to liquidation some of their position in later-stage venture rounds. But here is the deck I used to present before our panel if you haven’t seen it already: Final 2014 pre money deck from Mark Suster.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

When we met Shireen (CEO) and Scott (Co-founder & CTO) in late 2014 they had been inspired to create Nima to address their own personal food issues and empower other people to live their healthiest lives. We are predisposed to backing founders who solve problems in which they have personal knowledge that is authentic.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Firms like Baseline, Felicis, ff Ventures, Founder Collective, Freestyle, HomeBrew, IA Ventures, K9, Lowercase, NextView, Resolute, Rincon, Crosscut and the countless other great firms we all now know didn’t exist. At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

To help take things to the next level, Relay has also announced it has raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by Khosla Ventures, which also invested in Timeful back in 2014 , with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, SV Angel, and a handful of angels.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

Written by Ruchir Punjabi , the co-founder and chief digital officer of Distributed Energy , a company that matches investors with renewable energy projects across Africa, Middle East and India, and the founder of Langoor, which was sold to Havas Group in 2019. Ruchir Punjabi has been an EO member since 2014.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

A fantastic example is Demis Hassabis, co-founder of the machine learning AI lab DeepMind. million in DeepMind, and recouped over 80 times that amount when Google bought the company in 2014. In 2009 he went to Silicon Valley to find seed investors. In preparation, he spent months researching who might be amenable to his pitch.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 22, 2019

Back in May 2014, Duolingo launched something called the Duolingo Test Center. I saw this tweet this morning from Luis, Duolingo’s founder and CEO: Super proud that the Duolingo English Test ( @DuolingoENTest ) is now fully accepted as a proof of English proficiency at 10 of the top 20 US universities according to US News.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Could you withstand the public scrutiny every day of being a young tech founder and show up every morning filled with enthusiasm? Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. I wish I had 20% of her confidence, focus and leadership skills at 25. The world needs more Meredith Perry’s, not fewer. The doubters will question you.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2023

Notifi founder and CEO Paul Kim falls in the latter camp. “Some believe that everything has to be decentralized and Web3-native from the get-go. Focusing on seed stage investments, Cherubic aims to be the first institutional investor of the next iconic company and back founders who dare to dream big and change the world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

One of the founders of CNET, Minor entered tech media at a time when the closest thing most of us had to the web was a spider spinning cobwebs on an old NES. In 2014, he started an exchange, Bitreserve, which morphed into Uphold, a money transfer product that supported over 30 currencies, including crypto.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Founder, Founder, Founder At Upfront we talk regularly about how 70% of our investment decision in Seed and A rounds is the quality of the entrepreneur and 30% is the quality of the idea. Why did Ring become an enormous success when it produced a hardware product and the market keeps saying, “hardware is too difficult to scale?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience. Relationships.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 8, 2017

This is an e-mail I got from Amanda Weeks in February 2014, and the beginning of a two and a half year journey that culminated with Brooklyn Bridge Ventures leading a pre-seed round for Industrial Organic that kicked off about a year ago. The round, which was raised in two tranches, was recently announced by Inc Magazine.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Founder and CEO Prince Boakye Boampong started the company in 2019. Before Dash, Boampong was the co-founder of OMG Digital, a YC-backed Ghanaian media startup he started alongside Jesse Ghansah — the current CEO of Float — in 2016. . Other investors in the round include Global Founders Capital and 4DX Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2014, more than 40% of U.S. Case is the founder of the Revolution trio of funds (including the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund), which focus exclusively on investing outside the major hubs of Silicon Valley, New York and Boston. Since launching the platform in 2014, Case and his teams have invested in 194 companies across 89 cities.

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