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This is going to be BIG.
MAY 13, 2015
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures recently joined Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Crosslink Capital, and KarpReilly in Hungryroot 's $2mm seed round. Hungryroot is going after that category--the packaged food category, with a product that takes about 7 minutes from package to mouth. All you need is a pan and some olive oil.
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MARCH 6, 2015
I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC.
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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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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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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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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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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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