TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

As it carried me through Golden Gate Park at a steady 23 miles per hour (slowing down to 6 mph for every speed bump), I felt like a packet of information being delivered across a network. A robotic taxi drove me home a few nights ago, and it was just fine. Is robotics mainstream now? How do I make sense of the Visa Bulletin?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

We use this try to draw some context that informs our funding decisions. Our last thoughts on the VC funding markets heading into 2016 was published here and I followed up with a little more context on the resetting of the venture industry , some thoughts on how startups are valued and how to think about burn rates at startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Startups and VC. Turo, the peer-to-peer car-sharing platform that’s been described as the Airbnb for cars, will expand to Australia before the end of the year, Rebecca reports. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Christine and Haje.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

The truth is that each firm is different and there isn’t one standard but over the years I’ve talked with enough of my peers to get sense of how many firms work. You’d be surprised how many firms are “dictator VCs” – even those that don’t formally acknowledge it internally.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Fifteen had co-founders over 40. Five have LGBTQ+ founders. Three teams have African-American founders. I don’t require warm intros.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It comes up a lot with my coaching clients who aspire to be top VCs and are trying to figure out how to self-assess and goal set. If I told you that the people who strike out the most batters, on average, have 98MPH fastballs, which is 2% higher than the league average, that’s much more useful information. Just how good is good?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I had to laugh a bit reading it. Many of my best friends have MBAs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Featuring topics like mobile apps, cloud-based resources, collaboration tools, creator communities, developer tools, e-commerce, low code, recurring revenue and marketing tools The Security Stage: Gain the keys to protecting sensitive information and thwarting hackers intent on unlocking details of your business and your life.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. Boom and bust. Are LPs to blame?

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

As part of the Insights from the Field campaign, I wanted to hear from other ecosystem builders in the field about their approaches to DEI, and hopefully identify specific techniques that they’ve incorporated in their communities. Kate Jackson, an ecosystem builder in the Chicago area, described the ‘why’ of this beautifully.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g.,

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AUGUST 8, 2011

How about as a VC? Fred has basically always been a VC, Mike was a reporter, and Jim worked in product marketing and management consulting. Surely--but then I realize how difficult it is to be an early stage VC in NYC. Its interesting to think about the career history of the VCs mentioned above. what has this guy done?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 1, 2016

What inspired you to invest in peer-to-peer marketplaces? VC-backed deals that normally investors wouldn’t have access to; Lyft and Spotify (which we invested in, as well) are two of them.”. Technology makes it easy to organize information and liquefy marketplaces. I’m always looking for new ways to innovate.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Every year I try to answer the question of “what has changed in the Venture Capital industry” and this year my colleague Chang Xu and I took a deep dive through the data and called many of our peers for confirmation. If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Peer to peer transactions and retail trading are two of the biggest drivers of crypto adoption on the continent. Still, it is when compared with its peers in Africa as no local crypto platform serving just Africa has reached a million customers. million pre-seed to that end. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

” European VC funds are building community around ESG initiatives. Data collection, then, is particularly important, as well as collecting information from various data sources, before collating, analyzing and reporting on it. So in addition to the data itself, our tool does workflow management.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. The following are some tips for the debate style VC meeting. Tips in a debate led VC Meeting.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. When the show has been processed it will be available here (estimated 8pm PDT).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A lot of people ask me what I think of posting to Twitter these days… (I’ll start calling it X as soon as I learn to stop saying Battery Tunnel and Triborough Bridge). Whether you want to continue to post to it is up to you—but I always tell people that creating content should be an exercise in creating value for yourself first.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Meant to give people more control over their financial data instead of keeping it siloed within banks and other institutions, users can decide to grant apps or websites secure access to information from their online accounts, including bank accounts, credit cards and digital wallets.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Peer-to-peer lending is back! I’m now the permanent host for TWiVC (until such time as they kick me off). Thank you to anybody who sent Jason a note on Twitter on my behalf. The episode isn’t yet live but it should be in the morning (probably when you’re reading this) – you can find it here. Really!).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Today, “it’s transforming entire categories of enterprise software,” says Navin Chaddha, managing director at VC firm Mayfield. In a TC+ guest post, he walks readers through the process of raising debt equity, keeping employees informed, and finding a lender to work with. Seems like a long time ago. yourprotagonist.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This is important because when you have too many VCs on a board you only bring one kind of thinking to the board. Independents are critical to avoiding “VC group think.” Industry Expertise You don’t need a peer from another startup as your independent?—?you you can build that with your personal peer network.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Rob Leclerc, Founding Partner, AgFunder , said, “We think of ourselves as a media company with VC as a business model. One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. However, the challenge with this two-sided market is: how do you get the investors to show up?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Technology vendors who have been successful over the long term all have something in common: they know how to sell to chief information officers. I’m a VC now, but my five CIO stints over the past two decades have taught me plenty about the before and after of the enterprise sales process. Yousuf Khan is a partner at Ridge Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

” From the hyperbolic Jason Calacanis weighing in that “The petty VC’s did everything to deride [Naval, the co-founder of AngelList]” as though the industry was collectively s g its pants that AngelList was going to put us out of business. This is the same way VC firms, by the way. So there you have it.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?—?they But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

It spoke to me because it so resonates with my nearly daily advice to entrepreneurs and VCs alike. Every VC firm works differently but when asked about our process I always reply the same way, We’re a “high conviction” shop. .” . — Scott Belsky (@scottbelsky) April 29, 2015. The same is true at startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The round was led by Zayn Capital; London-based investment firm, MSA Novo; global fund manager and Graph Ventures; an early-stage VC from Silicon Valley. While just beginning to emerge, Pakistani fintechs have the advantage of learning from peers and placing better informed strategic bets. Image Credits: NayaPay.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

To better understand why we’re seeing European VCs float, and not their peers in other markets, The Exchange reached out to Draper Esprit, Forward Partners, and fellow listed venture investors Mercia and Augmentum Fintech. Following its move, Draper Esprit is now the largest “purely tech VC” listed on London’s Main Market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

In a typical accelerator, founders will need to go through an intense program where they are loaded with information on all the things a startup will likely need to know at some point in their growth. There, they share pitch materials and information about their business. A three-way marketplace. ” It doesn’t end there.

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APRIL 1, 2020

The combination of all of these factors creates an opportunity for companies to provide information and thought leadership during a difficult time—or even simply entertainment. What’s a company to do with their marketing? So what are you supposed to do in the meantime? Does it look tone deaf to be out marketing your business right now?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

Put simply — computers handle computation, storage and databases store & retrieve results and networks handle the movement of this information to different locations but in order for humans to “interact” with this digital world we need an entry point to “input” (i) information and a mechanism to interpret this information or “output” (o).

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

To provide a flight plan for entrepreneurs, we interviewed coaches, founders and VCs to give you a sense of what to expect. To provide a flight plan for entrepreneurs, we interviewed coaches, founders and VCs to give you a sense of what to expect. Find testimonials, gauge their social media presence, and seek feedback from peers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. If you’re an investor who’d like to participate in future surveys, fill out this form. Which avenues enjoy new tailwinds?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 8, 2022

But I also invested in a number of VC funds in parallel. Consider that successful VCs need to look at 100 companies in order to choose one. VC is truly a very separate, unique and complex asset class that requires real expertise to achieve returns. Invest in VC funds (or funds of funds) exclusively.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Moerner developed techniques allowing us to “peer into the nanorealm” inside living cells — a feat that earned the team a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2014. It was such a simple statement, but it was kind of eye opening to me,” Goulburn tells TechCrunch. Hell and William E. The movement of proteins within live cells.

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