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. The numbers in that blog post are long out of date and so I now have a popup on it warning people not to use those numbers. The reality is that these multipliers differ from market to market.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

By Andrew Armstrong, an Octane blog contributor. Get a website, blog regularly, learn how to get found by the search engines, and establish yourself on social media. Andrew Armstrong is a freelance writer, technology enthusiast, and digital strategies consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A graduate of U.C.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Machine learning models predict code, synthesize images, author blog posts reducing composition time by a factor of 2 or 3. Startup company formation & funding thrives outside the Bay Area. Here are my predictions for 2023. ML propels SaaS into a massive second wave that increases workers’ productivity measurably.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The award recognizes women who demonstrate a strong record of innovation and leadership, achieved outstanding performance in business and who are changemakers across the Bay Area. The post [Plenty in Business Wire] Plenty VP of Farm Operations Megan Gillespie Receives Woman of Influence Award appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Units in the Bay Area cost roughly $189,000 as a starting price, compared to the $650,000 to $850,000 it takes to build units in a mid-rise apartment building, or $1 million per unit in a steel-reinforced highrise, according to the company. The interior of an Abodu home. Photo via Abodu.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 11, 2016

Their Bay Area 12-week program partners with media and celebrities that reach African American communities for recruitment, taps mentors from established software companies to teach 12-week programs, and offers internships with Bay Area companies to graduates. appeared first on THE BLOG.

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EntreWorks Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The report and its recommendations build on the uncomfortable fact that America’s innovation and technology economy is highly concentrated, with most activity centered in a few states and metro areas. In fact, only five metro areas account for 90% of America’s innovation sector growth since 2005. EntreWorks Blog.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 23, 2021

Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and TytoCare are partnering to create the first innovative at-home telehealth kit in the Tampa Bay area, TGH Virtual Health Kit. The post [TytoCare in Osprey Observer] Tampa General Hospital Partners With TytoCare To Create TGH Virtual Health Kit appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

With all the reporting, compliance, duties, obligations, and parental responsibilities, sprinkle in all the meetings, the travel time between meetings, the follow-ups, driving around the Bay Area, and so forth… time can just evaporate. The changes in routines I’ve outlined were a piece of the puzzle.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

But people are slowly trickling back : According to Vox, citing LinkedIn data, “over the last 12 months, San Francisco has seen the second-biggest worker population gain of any area in the United States.” If you enjoy this newsletter, you should check out my personal blog too ! It’s been felt.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

. “It also treats employee communication channels as the rails upon which to orchestrate management practices across an organization [by delivering] a library of management playbooks,” Ulevitch wrote in a blog post announcing the investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. ” It seems to either be “The Peninsula” or “San Francisco” or even just “The Bay Area.” Our Bay Area brethren think, “you can have your beach, LA. My views are pretty well known. LA should be LA.”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

If your business has a physical location or serves a particular area, you need to focus on local SEO. This will involve targeting local keywords, creating localized content, and more to catch the eye of customers in your area. . They also include their Google Maps location in addition to the different areas they serve in the county. .

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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

If you’ve followed me on Twitter or this blog, you’ve likely seen me ( too often ) talk about this term — The Series A — again and again. I am seeing more opportunities outside the Bay Area, which statistically makes it harder (though not impossible) to raise large amounts of venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

I’m thankful for SurfAir whose Santa Barbara to SF Bay Area flight has allowed the executives at Invoca to be in SF & the Peninsula every week leading to our biggest year of revenue growth and a business now destined for 9-figure success. Finally, thank you to the readers of this blog. Oh, and thank you to Nick Foles.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

During his free time, he started a blog to tell his friends back home about his life out west, and also to recommend TV shows. Slowly, Mike’s Bloggity Blog became one of Canada’s premier entertainment sites, and Morrison found himself with a local newspaper column as well as regular television and radio appearances.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog. He used the 500Startups platform to uber network in the Bay Area where he was living. Sam in the perfect example. So I had a sense that I knew who he was. Nice kid, but I see lots of nice kids.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. Joey Tran (SF Bay Area … Fortis). This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. It was very widely read. In that post I talked about how to select a law-firm for a startup.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

VCNetwork – for GPs in the Bay Area. John Gannon’s Blog. New York City Venture Connection. VEECEE – European VCs. VCPlatform – for portfolio acceleration professionals. NextGen Partners – for pre-Partner VCs. Nextgenpartners. Revenue Based Financing Network Group. Breakinto.VC. European VC Jobs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Forward it to a friend, share it on Twitter, and follow my personal blog for more content. How to raise funds when you aren’t in the Bay Area. In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about Clubhouse, the latest in tech layoffs and why $1 billion in capital can’t save AV tech. Clubhouse and the bird app.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Customers include a San Francisco Bay Area electrician company, a Denver-based pizza chain and a Seattle-based chain of gas stations and convenience stores. In a blog post, Ankit Sud and Christina Fa wrote: “Traditional 401(k) providers like Vanguard and Fidelity designed and priced their plans for large businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

What I *SHOULD HAVE* considered was that I was in college in a time when there were no digital cameras and I’m very thankful for that or I likely wouldn’t be writing this blog post today. Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies. Mostly kidding.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The truth is that I love Stanford, Palo Alto and the Bay Area in general. Or to quote somebody who thinks a lot about what makes people happy, Gretchen Rubin of the Happiness Project wrote in this blog post : “money can’t buy happiness, but it sure can buy lots of things that contribute mightily to happiness.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. ” It’s true.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Two-plus years after spinning off the X graduate, the company grounded the project aimed at bringing internet connectivity to underserved areas via balloon. Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth noted in a blog post that the project simply wasn’t able to achieve profitability. Fry’s Electronics had 31 stores across nine U.S.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2023

The post [Plenty in Produce Grower] Q&A: Plenty’s Nate Storey talks new R&D facility and moving away from the Bay Area appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Storey, Plenty’s co-founder and chief science officer, discusses the company’s latest developments. Read more here.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

But, before I share those notes, let’s quickly revisit how the entire Bay Area seed stage ecosystem has been been reset. Below are my brief notes & high-level takeaways from the sessions. As I argued at the start of the year, there are no longer any rules about what constitutes seed and who can play in the game.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The entrepreneur, who previously ran Founder Gym, an online training center for underrepresented founders, said in a blog post that the decision was made after she realized “being in the field working directly with entrepreneurs everyday” is her passion. She will remain an advisor to the Bay Area–based nonprofit.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

About 75% of FC’s investments are in the Bay Area, but that’s something that Mittal expects to decrease as time goes on. If other people are doing something in that area, why isn't it clicking? Sometimes VCs overpromise in that area, and some do just the opposite. Is that the right way?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

It also attracted some big names from the Bay Area. It’s always great to meet somebody in person that you’ve interacted with on blogs and on Twitter. I’m a huge supporter of his initiative to help end this practice. The first event was a big success and brought out many of LA’s angel elite.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. I though to myself, “too many young entrepreneurs in LA seem to feel pressured by NorCal VCs to move to the Bay Area. I’m not. I hear it all the time.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 19, 2022

14, the fast-food giant will roll out the burger at roughly 600 locations in the San Francisco Bay and Dallas-Fort Worth areas to learn more about consumer demand for the potential menu item. The post [Beyond Meat in CNBC] McDonald’s expands test of McPlant burger created with Beyond Meat appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

It speaks to a mentality we see less of in the Bay Area today, but one that nearly everyone admires and wishes would come back. What’s also interesting to me here is not just how little venture dollars many of these companies have raised, but further, the ratio of enterprise value with respect to dollars raised.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 5, 2021

is set to begin trading on Nasdaq Tuesday as the fifth lidar business in the Bay Area to go public by merging with a “blank check” company. The post [Innoviz in The Business Journals] Innoviz set to begin trading Tuesday as fifth lidar company to go public via SPAC merger appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

BrightInsight grew 701% between 2018 and 2021 and ranked 43rd of the 101 Fast 500 companies based in the Bay Area. The post [BrightInsight in GlobeNewswire] BrightInsight ranked 217th Fastest-Growing Company in North America on the 2022 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

I believe this is an important post for both founders and investors in the Bay Area and outside the Bay Area to read carefully. When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. Here goes….

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