A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

One of the many things that venture capital has taught me is the value of the long buy. What I mean by a “long buy” is buying shares in a company over a long period of time. We have investments where we have bought shares seven or eight times over a ten to twelve year period. There are a bunch of reasons why a long buy is so attractive: 1/ You get to learn more about the opportunity before committing significant funds and each and every subsequent investment is based on a better unde

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

By Scott Meacham. Recently, I received a phone call about a friend who was raising a fund specifically to invest in women-led companies. Considering the track record of venture capital invested in women-led firms, it’s easy to understand her focus. In the United States, about 2.5 to 3 percent of all venture funding goes to female founders (that percentage increases to about 12 percent when firms with both female and male founders are added in.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Net Dollar Retention is one of the most important metrics is a SaaS business. It measures the value of a cohort of customers over time including expansion, cross-sell, and churn (loss of revenue). But how do you measure NDR? Imagine this is your company’s data. The first column is the cohort month for each cohort in a year. The second column is the revenue of this cohort in their first month.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Scot Parnell is deploying his financial services experience to help a startup evangelize a radical idea: let employees access their earned income as needed. Read more here. The post [DailyPay in CFO Dive] Making early-pay access a thing appeared first on OurCrowd.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Israel is making a name for itself in transportation tech and the list certainly wouldn’t be complete without at least one founder of an autonomous vehicle company on the list. Shai Magzimof, 28, who founded Phantom Auto in late 2017 with Elliot Katz and Ohad Dvir, is working on a vehicle that can move on its, with a remote human operator in a separate room.

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