Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

'I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. Let’s start with the fund. We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million. If you’ve been following the press about VC funds you’ll know this is no small feat.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

I’m asked with some frequency which startup sectors are booming. Mobile messaging and big data are knee-jerk reactions at this point. But these days I often respond “financial services.”. In the last two years, financial services startups have been innovating impressively quickly and challenging some of the fundamental ways in which capital and credit are distributed.

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JUNE 27, 2013

'Assuming first that a corporate whistle-blower is not tooting about you individually, such a class of people have been granted protections under the law and serve a function that needs to be acknowledged. First, the assumption is that such a person is not making his or her gesture for personal profit, but to give proper notice that there is something illegal going on within the company that the person cannot accept and must tell someone about.

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JUNE 24, 2013

'Recently, I asked my newsletter readers and members of the NY Tech Meetup who they supported for Mayor. Hundreds of responses later, the results were pretty interesting. First off, you have to win the primary, so let''s start with Registered NYC Democrats and Republicans. That''s key, because many of the respondants who answered the survey with who they were supporting were either a) not registered to vote in NYC or b) not registered with a political party.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

'Every sales organization with more than a handful of reps or that is across multiple offices or time zones would benefit from having a sales methodology. There are many out there and many books have been written on the topic. I’ve been writing a series on a simple methodology that we used at my first enterprise software company. It was useful because I was new to sales and as the CEO it gave me some comfort to feel more informed about how our leads where going and to know the likelihood of our

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 23, 2013

When I first started in venture capital five years ago, I wanted to create a programmatic way to analyze companies well. My goal was to be able to step into a meeting with an entrepreneur with some kind of form that I would fill out throughout the meeting, so that by the end of the meeting I might have an understanding how the startup fits into its ecosystem.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 27, 2013

I started playing around with Google’s programming language called Go yesterday. There’s a tour of the language found here. Clearly, Go has been designed by a group of incredibly smart people and makes a series of terrific design decisions that enable a tremendous amount of flexibility and performance while reducing the amount of code an engineer has to write.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2013

'Phone calls. We all have important ones and want to maximize the impact, which can be hard to do when you aren’t face-to-face. Many first-time entrepreneurs have grown up digital natives so have a really good intuitive feel for technology & design but don’t yet have the business basics down. . This shows itself when people try to do an elevator pitch, send concise, actionable emails or have a quick phone call with you to ask for help. .

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