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TechCrunch
JANUARY 12, 2021
But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. At the time, I didn’t even know that raising venture capital was a possibility.
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APRIL 15, 2010
I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). It’s sort of Jack FM meets Total Request Live meets UCG/Social Gaming (at least in the future).
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JUNE 18, 2010
To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link. What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). We talked about Facebook.
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OCTOBER 1, 2009
In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.
TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2021
CRE Ventures led that round , but this time, the company, which has offices in Cape Town and New York, brought in a blue-chip group of investors spanning gaming, media and fintech. VC firm Konvoy Ventures led the Series A round. Africa’s gaming industry has lacked innovation in times past.
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NOVEMBER 14, 2010
They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. I have called it a “mug’s game&# and I mostly try to avoid it. Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. This requires novel thinking.
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AUGUST 11, 2009
I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. Benjamin Joffe (the author), a Frenchman who runs a consultancy in China that tries to help non-Asian investors understand the innovation occurring in Asia as a way to bring ideas to their local markets. slide 29).
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