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. Most categories slow down meaningfully, including Defi. Marketing becomes the first broad use case of web3 after Defi, catalyzed by the death of the third-party cookie. The Fed tames inflation.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

He wanted to work in venture capital and I was new to the industry and in no position to hire anybody. I said, “This category is going to be huge. Like most markets online it will likely be a ‘winner take most’ category so if you’re going to go for it … you better be prepared to win.”

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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. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

The best entrepreneurs in our industry focus on it year-round as opposed to just once every 18 months. How to get your Series A mojo back The rest of the outline I’ll write as a series to come back to this blog if you want to read more. … You never get a second chance to make a good first impression 3. Remind me why I love you?

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. First, congrats! Enter Box.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I like to speak about this topic with first-time wantrapreneurs because if you read the tech press every day you’d get the impression that it all glamor. I recently had coffee with a young friend who just finished his first startup. Early on in my first company I had an employee ask if it was a good time to buy a home.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Have a shorter to-do list with more things that are in the “done” category.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

They either do too many seed investments (for which they can spend no quality time with any) or they treat it as an option (“if you succeed come back and see us and we’ll match any term sheet you get&# ) – they view it as a sort of “right of first refusal.&#. The signaling affect is overrated. More on this later.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

These features are made available by way of Insight’s extensions, some of which are suggested during the app’s first launch. Others, meanwhile, can be browsed inside the app, where they’re organized into categories like Search, Shopping, Cooking & Dining, News, Health, and Reading. ” Image Credits: Insight.

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Earlier this year, Petal announced it raised a $140 million Series D round of funding at an $800 million valuation to help upend the “broken” traditional credit system.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. They are likely taking losses on their first project with the entrepreneur so they select carefully. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. What kind of deals should I be doing? What stage?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. This is minutes 8-11.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

Earlier today, the folks from Afore Capital hosted their inaugural “Pre-Seed Summit” in San Francisco. 2/ Putting labels aside, there is a string of examples historians can cite about huge companies raising very small, modest rounds at low prices. Some press showed up, too. It’s all just a matter of time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. They are likely taking losses on their first project with the entrepreneur so they select carefully. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. What kind of deals should I be doing? What stage?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. was starting.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. Companies ultimately go through multiple rounds. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Venture capital investing offers different challenges than those associated with tech entrepreneurship, but Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of FundersClub, approached the sphere of venture capital the same way he did as a tech founder previously: is there a better way to do this? There are a lot of inefficiencies in VC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

According to figures from Crunchbase , Q3 venture capital dropped a mind-boggling 33% from last quarter and 53% from the same time last year. The days of the $20 million seed round appear to be over — at least for now. Plenty of folks remain bullish on the eVTOL category, but Kitty Hawk couldn’t stick the landing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Today, a London-based beauty startup is announcing a major round of funding in hopes of reaping the spoils of that trend with a direct-to-consumer online storefront selling own-label goods. Members more than doubled in the last year, with revenues growing by more than 100%, and the company turned profitable last year for the first time, too.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 17, 2022

To assess whether or not they are likely to be right, though, we must first ask?—?what Social media and blog posts are the primary mediums through which information is disseminated about various layer-1 chains. Which of these applications are category leaders? Round and round we go?—?reflexivity Applications?—?Which

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

If that comes to bear, the ByteDance news could prove more harbinger than one-off, perhaps reducing the total capital available to startups in the country. The boom in venture capital activity that the world recorded last year, and appears to be still afoot today, is increasingly in contrast to falling valuations for public tech companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. What are the three most important lessons investors could pass along to first-time entrepreneurs raising money? When you see a big round that is announced, does it mean that they really raised all this money?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? In our previous essay, we introduced the concept of Flexible VC : structures which allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? In our previous essay, we introduced the concept of Flexible VC : structures which allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

The World Economic Forum says SqUID’s technological power and its ability to climb and work within existing infrastructures puts it in a unique category of its own: an “Autonomous Climbing Robot.” Join OurCrowd as we invest in a Series A round with Pico Venture Partners and Pontifax. Learn More.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Israeli investors’ first look at the UAE tech economy. Over the past 9 years since the company was founded, it has served 4 million customers and raised $200 million in external capital,” reports Meghan McCormick. . . We are defining the rules of an entirely new category of software,” Hurt says. Top Tech News.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2022

OurCrowd is leading SynergyMed’s current funding round. OurCrowd’s first R&D center outside Israel. Through its venture and innovation unit UBS Next, UBS joined OurCrowd, Mindset Ventures and lead investor Macquarie Capital in the Series B round. “We Learn More. 15 th , 2023. Summit Registration. Why Abu Dhabi?

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OurCrowd

MAY 16, 2021

Corporate venture capital is a win-win. OurCrowd is investing in a Series C round led by Almeda Ventures with participation from current investor Peregrine Ventures. Corporate venture capital is a win-win. Corporations are investing more in venture capital than ever before. Startup of the Week: Cordio Medical.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

OurCrowd is joining some top investors raising a $24M investment round for Diagnostic Robotics , a company at the forefront of the digital health revolution that uses artificial intelligence to reduce hospital waiting times and guide patients to faster, more efficient medical care. Juganu: Killing Covid-19 with light. Introductions.

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

Startup of the Week: Leading carmaker joins Foretellix round. Startup of the Week: Foretellix: Leading European carmaker joins round. Foretellix is expanding its Series B investment round from $25M to $31M due to significant oversubscription. ‘I would have been splattered if not for Ride Vision’. Introductions.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

This $35M Series B round is led by Khosla Ventures with Upfront Ventures reinvesting. The social media network crash was not the first, but its sheer scale reminded the world how dependent businesses and individuals have become on web-based networks like WhatsApp. On October 4, over 3.5 Head of Finance & Legal for D-ID (Tel Aviv).

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Corelight raises $75M in Round D fundin g. Investors participating in this round include Israeli cybersecurity guru and existing investor Pinchas Buchris, a former Director-General of the Israel Defense Ministry, and a former commander of the storied Unit 8200 of Israel Military Intelligence. QuantLR’s ‘Iron Dome for data’.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

The FDA has granted De Novo Marketing Authorization for the breakthrough Hominis robotic surgery system developed by Memic – a notable first. Future Family is the first company to bring together financing, technology, and concierge care in an easy-to-use online platform. FDA greenlights Memic’s breakthrough robotic surgery.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

Ripple products are currently available in over 20,000 retail stores across the US, where the company has captured ultra-high value customers and driven category expansion of plant-based milk products. OurCrowd is joining a $55M Series E round with existing investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), Prelude Ventures, and Euclidean Capital.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. Accel, Sequoia) give the Scout a small pool of capital.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

11:30 – Their first customers. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 29:00 – Finding good data scientists who work from first principles. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 29:00 – Finding good data scientists who work from first principles. 4:00 – From project to company.

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