Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Growing too slowly is particularly dangerous in a business with network effects, which the best startups usually have to some degree.” ” This is a frequent theme of mine when asked to speak to audience about the VC industry. Fooling us into downloading an app to watch a video and afterward feeling duped.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

It’s easy to think that the wife of a well-known & successful VC ( Fred Wilson ) would have had an easy and storied life of wealth and privilege. I had previously had the opportunity to spend time with Joanne Wilson , Fred’s wife, and knew otherwise. The Internet really re-connected Joanne with her former working self.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced. This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. More on that later. People like free.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

A typical VC might see 500 opportunities cross his or her desk every year; for larger, more prominent ones it could be 2,000. VCs therefore use whatever heuristics they can in order to triage the deal flow. A download link is sent to you automatically by Gust once you create your profile, and the book is exactly what it says.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

“We enable a number of customers to run secure collaboration and communication on prem and in a number of cases… there is a number of large networks that are being built that are not even connected to the public internet. Though the team defended the changes as just a practical reflection of its refocused B2B mission.).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

On-the-ground infrastructure, like vertiports and chargers, is turning into its own business unit, and companies like Archer , Hyundai and Volocopter are exploring ways to integrate air mobility into a city’s existing transport networks. Fresh VC money is drying up and there aren’t likely to be more new entrants into the space.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

million in early stage funding to date — with investment coming from European VC firm Earlybird; Dominik Schiener ( Iota co-founder); and the Swedish authentication and payment services company, Thales AB. “But the interesting thing is so far Google is not only using personalization but they also use kind of a network effect.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

Terra Money is one of the newest crypto networks that is also in the top ten by market cap. internal network) statistics for Bitcoin as well as the macro economic environment. Kevin Rose ( @kevinrose ): partner at VC firm True Ventures , host of the Modern Finance and Proof podcasts. Read the Terra whitepaper.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

As investor Monique Woodard stated during a BLCK VC webinar, “You have to fix the systemic issues in your funds that keep Black founders out and keep you from delivering better returns.” Venture capital is driven by relationships and many investments are sourced via personal referrals, usually through one’s direct networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. And my specialty was computer networks. ” I was like, “I don’t know, I want to be a VC.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Hyve is building a multiplayer fintech infrastructure for saving and investing where users can create their network of supporters, and those people can automatically round up their purchases to match the user’s personal cash contributions. The more people added to the “hyve,” the more money the user saves to reach their goals.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Venture capital (VC) investors in the Valley further compound this notion by consistently channeling their funds into high-risk, high-return companies with plans to disrupt entire industries. Airbnb is another great example.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 24, 2024

He'll tell us why he built Bump , why he chose to pivot it even after it saw many millions of downloads, and how that choice led to the creation of Google Photos. Coincidentally, I met a kid who was in grad school who over the summer had made one of the first iPhone apps that would find open WiFi networks near you.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

The tool assigns an “opportunity score” out of 100 and even shows through which method the exit might happen. Startups and VC Banking stocks are whipsawing this morning in the wake of the UBS–Credit Suisse deal and First Republic’s continued woes — and much more, on this morning’s utterly excellent episode of our Equity podcast.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Taking advantage of advances in 5G in the millimeter spectrum as well as rapidly declining hardware costs, the startup is pioneering a mesh network of wireless base stations that can transmit high-bandwidth signals across entire neighborhoods at relatively cheap infrastructure installation costs.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Venture capital (VC) investors in the Valley further compound this notion by consistently channeling their funds into high-risk, high-return companies with plans to disrupt entire industries. Airbnb is another great example.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Part 2: Product-led growth strategy “ The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app ” (3,000 words/12 minutes) — analyzes the tactics and tradeoffs that an edtech company has to evaluate as it grows from thousands to 500 million registered learners. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 3, 2022

Download the enhanced OurCrowd mobile app for Android or iOS and get all the advantages of OurCrowd’s investment platform in the palm of your hand, whenever you need it. Download Now. We were the first Israeli VC to open offices in the UAE for direct investment in Emirati companies. Check out the enhanced OurCrowd mobile app.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 29, 2021

Yahal Zilka, the lead investor at Waze and other unicorns, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner at 10D, an early-stage VC, in conversation with Jon Medved, Founder and CEO of OurCrowd. The company now has 400,000 customers, and one in three who have downloaded the app opens it every day. Wednesday, Sep. 1 at 9AM SF / 12PM NY / 7PM JM.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Top investment opportunities. Summit Week will be packed as ever with corporate meetups, VC forums, insider access to accelerators and labs, touring opportunities, and legendary partying. Once you’ve downloaded it, you should be able to use it.” Your portfolio gets stronger when the OurCrowd network gets involved.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

The NFT world is all about reshaping the idea of digital ownership, but art hardware startup Infinite Objects sees a big opportunity in making physical copies of those assets as it looks to reshape digital art and collectibles. You can’t download apps to the screens or upload your own photos to them or check the time or weather.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Viral – One of the most important value drivers of any social network is the degree to which it makes content go viral.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

And so, if you’re lucky, within each of these domains, you get an opportunity to work on different kinds of things. I built Google’s global payment network back in the early days when we had to get money from advertisers all over the world and pay out our publishers all over the world. If you will. We will, for sure.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Europe, South Korea and New Zealand, and soon more will be able to download the app from the app store. In just six days, the app topped 500,000 downloads. They would then promote these malicious extensions on social media and through sponsored search results to trick people into downloading malware.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. Juno used your modem to to download and send email, and it was paid for by placing ads in the email client. How did MSFT lose the API war? Building on top of platforms.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. It only seemed logical to us that the same opportunity should exist in healthcare.

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