Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I'm so excited to hear that Indeed.com, a company that Union Square Ventures invested in while I worked there, just exited for a reported billion dollars. Back in 2005, I was a lowly analyst at Union Square Ventures with a million product ideas that I'd blog about all the time.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

The pandemic has spurred interest in saving and investment apps around the world , especially ones geared toward newer investors. Most of its users are between the ages of 25 to 40 and looking for alternatives to investing in long-term asset classes like real estate. of people in Vietnam have invested in stocks.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. I had a pre breakfast with a CEO of a company in which I invested talking about his next fund raising round. Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog. “But WAIT !!! Operations.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

Podcasts have emerged as a major new category in media/entertainment/news/education etc. USV has been looking for an opportunity to invest in podcasting that fits with our thesis and we found it with Headgum and Gumball. We made an investment in Headgum recently and blogged about it on the USV blog this morning.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Microsoft today announced that it’s extending its partnership with OpenAI, the startup behind art- and text-generating AI systems like ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and GPT-3, with a “multi-year, multi-billion-dollar” investment. ” OpenAI will remain a capped-profit company as a part of the deal.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

You can expect to see families invest in toys, to keep their children occupied, as well as board games, projects and puzzles that can be done as a family in the evening and on weekends. Influencer parenting bloggers are already putting together lists of their favorites items in these categories and sharing them broadly. Food Delivery.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

We are investing heavily in these changes. I know that any time ads are mentioned it makes the blood boil on any self respecting technologist the same way it did when HotWire ran their first ad in 1994 and the way it made Google’s blood boil when Overture launched the sponsored search category. The eyes are in the image.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

That does not mean, however, that anyone else outside that category is unable to raise. This blog post is not about debating if "enough" diverse founders get funding--whatever that might mean. Venture investing is hard. First off, the vast majority of venture dollars goes to white men. That is a fact.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

Here’s the difference: A hobby or side hustle involves a discretionary investment of time and money. That choice puts you squarely in the freelance category. The choice to invest in my business, however, was a step in making the shift from freelancer to entrepreneur. Making the mindset shift appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Apple announced that they’re shutting down your category. Invested Interests entrepreneur execution VCs' Would they blame me? Would they back me or think I had gone off the rails? So Facebook just announced that they’re going to compete with you. Salesforce.com just bought your main competitor. Far fetched stuff. Reblogged via [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Investment in training, adherence to process, global knowledge sharing systems, quality control / partner reviews and campus recruitment programs that attracted the right talent. There seem to be a lot of market entrants in every category where it becomes hard to differentiate them all from each other.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2011

VC Blogger Fanboy This geek reads all the blogs religiously and is a lean startup ninja. In fact, one of them just made an angel investment in one of our competitors because they forgot they were advising us and now I have to do damage control. Ashton Kutcher. Nice work, aplusk. The Reluctant Partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - We spoke briefly about why. Short answer: no.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

We were lucky to invest not only during this time, but also doubled down in an extension. The company’s blog has become a destination for original research on consumer behavior and insights — check it out here: [link]. The company received investment interest for a few years, but took their time to raise the Series A.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. There is one source I never liked and no early-stage VC should – investment bankers. They are venture bankers not investment bankers. They have an investment in each company so I can understand that goal.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. There is one source that was always problematic for me – intros from investment bankers. There is one source that was always problematic for me – intros from investment bankers. Big difference.]. International money.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Many MBA programs still cater too much to the needs of large, corporate management jobs or prepare students to enter big consulting companies or investments banks. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style. As you grow you need process-driven people.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

tevye2009 , Q: “can you briefly explain why it’s best to get a small valuation when getting investment.&# Mike Stern (wasn’t sure which one so leave a comment if it’s you): Q: “is it possible to sell your startup without venture investment if the company has big traction and a large user base?&#

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Zoom investing , it seems, is working just fine for cash-rich firms looking to double down on bets in categories from edtech to climate. The first filing shows that the firm has closed $151 million for USV Climate 2021, which one can assume is focused on climate-tech investments. million investment vehicle titled USV Bundled.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. How much money will they reserve from their fund for future investments in your startup? How much pull that investment professional has within his or her fund?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Forward it to a friend, share it on Twitter, and follow my personal blog for more content. I’ve been seeing a lot of startups recently that want the best of both worlds for consumers, and Getaway is no different — combining both an investment and an enjoyment in one product. Real estate investing app Fintor raises $6.2M

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The week’s top investment deals from OurCrowd. Green light for cleantech investment. Green light for cleantech investment. Annual investment in cleantech increased tenfold from about $400 million a year to peak at $4.3 Joining the AI healthcare revolution. Better choices to fight cancer. Virgin Hyperloop gathers speed.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

But since there are millions of other companies that do not fall into this category, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provides certain limited exceptions to allow individuals to invest in non-public companies. Invested Interests'

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Future approaches will require serious investment in IP, technology, and R&D but at the end of day, what will continue to matter most is taste. Last year, the White House published a blog post attributing half of the price increases at the grocery store to beef, pork, and poultry. based venture capital fund.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

What would happen if you took 10 or 15 hours a week from those lower categories and put them into high-value categories? It may take months or a year, but the results are worth the investment in energy and time. The post It’s About Time appeared first on THE BLOG. In terms of your financial wealth and your life?

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Some of Ann’s investments include Lyft, Ayasdi, Xamarin, Refinery29, JoyRun, TaskRabbit, and Modcloth. Given the success of her investments she was on the 2017 Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists. What and when was your very first investment? I really admire David Swensen, Chief Investment Officer at Yale.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

The decision by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to expand its definition of an “ accredited investor ” paves the way for thousands more aspiring venture capitalists and angel investors to benefit from investing in the private markets. Brokers, dealers and registered investment advisers exempt from registration under the U.S.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts. This added exposure can result in indications of interest (investment, acquisition, partnership, etc.) Having a good public profile on Gust means that your company’s public (never private!)

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

A huge mistake I see is that VC tells an entrepreneur no based on a set of reason that this VC felt weren’t right with the business (market size, traction to date, too many competitors, no big exits in the category or whatever easy excuses VCs have developed to politely say no) and the entrepreneur lets this get inside his or her head.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. 1) The Creator Economy as an Investable Concept was ZIRP Accelerated. Do these folks want to be the 100th investor chasing SaaS or do they want to define/invent new categories where they can be the thought leaders? A singer who wants to sing. An animator who wants to draw.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. A new category of investors has emerged offering a hybrid between VC and revenue-based investment (RBI), which we call “flexible VC.” We detail below the major categories of VC: Funder category.

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