Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

We then had a full session with Rick Smith, founder of Crosscut Ventures (along with Brian Garrett). But seriously, I talk about why VC is a “get rich slowly&# scheme and why many VCs make much less upside than you might think. I talk in the video about the economics of venture capital and how we make money.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I am taking the lead from GRP and we also invested alongside a number of friends including Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, Jay Weintraub and a whole host of other angels. I first met Ethan in 2005.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 4, 2022

Or, as UGG Australia co-founder Brian Smith puts it, “You can’t give birth to adults.” Smith took us on the rollercoaster ride of his entrepreneurial journey from being a broke surfer selling boots on the beach, to making UGG a billion-dollar-a-year business—and all of the near-death experiences along the way.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

S3 Ventures founder and managing director Brian Smith notes that when he started the firm in 2005, venture capital in Texas was finally starting to recover from the dot.com bust. A small crop of mostly sub-$100 million funds appeared, several founded by former AV GPs,” Smith recalls.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

They came back 2 months later and had raised money from Crosscut Ventures , an early-stage venture firm in LA run by Rick Smith and Brian Garrett. They had signed up Gawker Media and the New York Post. More interesting but still not my cuppa tea. I really respect these guys.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Kite struggled to pay the bills, founder Adam Smith revealed in a postmortem blog post , running into engineering headwinds that made finding a product-market fit essentially impossible. Smith estimated that it could cost over $100 million to build a “production-quality” tool capable of synthesizing code reliably.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Brian writes that following rumors of layoffs, Amazon started making them this week. Investors might enjoy listening to a well-rehearsed founder’s story, but sharing the right customer data “can definitively power up a pitch deck,” says David Smith, VP of data and analytics at TheVentureCity. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 21, 2019

Brian Parks notes that for Bigfoot Capital, “90% of the opportunities we evaluate and the companies we fund are not consistently profitable when we invest. Lori Smith of White and Williams observes, “The traditional VC is likely going to see these investors in the cap table as a negative.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Brian Smith was a science fiction movie screenwriter, penning low budget alien movies starring the likes of Lou Diamond Phillips. Spotting the order, Brian included a postcard illustrated by their designer of Walt the Cow, their mascot, in a Mickey shirt, thanking him for the order. I did not take the cup, just for the record.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2015

The founders – Brian Garrett and Rick Smith – were both VCs long before I arrived in this town. Brian grew up locally and after he was graduated from Stanford (engineering) and Stanford MBA he went to work at a firm called Palomar Ventures.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 26, 2012

I also understand he may have “edited” one of my favorite longreads of all time, Brian Arthur’s Increasing Returns and the Two Worlds of Business from HBR in 1996. Two of my favorite innovative thinkers from history are Charles Darwin and Adam Smith. Left leaning philosophies favor Darwin and not Smith.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

Anzani , Louis Coppey ; Alia Dedhar ; Brian Frumberg, VentureOut : Marc Lemcke, New York International ; Gianluca Galletto ; Justin Kreamer, NYCEDC ; Mike Smith ; Andrew Sudol ; Ben Zlotnick, Eden ; and Yordanka Ilieva , Columbia Business School for thoughtful comments. Thanks to Andrew Ackerman , Dreamit; Alessandro A.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Some that come to mind: Melissa Medina, Matt Haggman, Nico Berardi, Shervin Pishevar, Raul Moas, Nancy Dahlberg, Rebecca Danta, Moishe Mana, Laura Maydon, Brian Brackeen, Tony Jimenez, Brian Breslin, Juan Pablo Cappello, Mellissa Krinzman, Mark Kingdon, and now, of course, Mayor Francis Suarez.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1776, Adam Smith released his magnum opus, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , in which he outlined his fundamental economic theories. In 1817, David Ricardo published On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation where he expanded upon Smith’s work in developing the theory of Comparative Advantage.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Don’t miss EO’s 2023 EmpowHER virtual series on 7, 14 and 21 March (the first three Tuesdays of the month).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

While the BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith had spoken about it publicly I had never heard any statements from BuzzFeed’s CEO. If you have any interest in the future of online media or even better understanding fake news, why it exists and what to do about it — do yourself and watch this short 30-minute video interview.

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