TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

For instance, 2050 will contribute to Université Paris Dauphine’s class on the ecological challenges of the 21st century. And I’m glad to see that 2050 understands that tech investment isn’t just about financing private companies. Arguably, this is the most interesting part of 2050.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Solution: develop more accurate mental models of how venture capital works and how humans make decisions under uncertainty. See the public memos by Bessemer Venture Partners. Apophenia is a term that explains this tendency to see patterns in randomness, across domains of finance, art, science, and games of chance.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. I was there, too.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Teach ‘em Finance and Chase or Accenture will come and pick ‘em up 30 at a time. If schools are going to participate in the growth of NYC’s innovation ecology, they’re going to have to change the way they operate, or they’re going to get lapped and left behind. It was easy peasy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

And that sometimes the public sector makes the investment that not even the riskier of venture capital funds can do. “So first, for example, for investment — what if big companies start investing more and more than they are actually doing? Meaning that the political administration, it’s more agile.

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