Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

We both wanted to build a practice that would make Los Angeles proud but where we would travel tirelessly to other locations to make investments in the best entrepreneurs wherever they were. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. I made some reference calls.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2025

Team Building Anatomy of a Reference Check : Then get out of their way. Scaling Management Invest in managers : Great companies invest disproportionately in developing their managers. Cultivate growth mindset : View challenges as learning opportunities rather than fixed obstacles.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So common are founder tensions that my intervening is a weekly occurrence and it’s so common that if I ever write about it I’m sure that instantly every company I’ve invested in and every company in which I’ve been an informal advisor thinks I must be writing about them. It’s not you. It’s all of you.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The fact that Kara doesn’t have what my wife likes to refer jokingly as my “Y chromosome problem” is beside the fact. The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. So What Does All This Mean?

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The Seraf Compass

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Here, for your reference, is our Impact Investing Due Diligence Report Template. We’ve combined our experiences with both impact and non-impact investments, and included emerging best practices from some of the leading thinkers in impact investing.

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

Berman comes from a real estate background, and he co-founded Camber Creek after realizing an opportunity to “create a double alpha situation,” both investing in high-growth startups and using those startups to improve the operations of his own real estate portfolio. Mitchell Schear was President of Vornado/Charles E. That’s a fool’s errand.”

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

I’m talking about what someone I know recently referred to as “dentists”. These are people that didn’t make their money through a tech startup or startup investing. That’s why when you come upon someone outside the traditional ecosystem, there might be a lot of compelling reasons to take their money. Perhaps they inherited it.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

An Odd Start To My Angel Investing. So I thought of an idea: Why not invest in startups? Angel investing is like having a niece or nephew. Both were actual companies (not academic exercises), and I decided to make an angel investment in both of them -- mostly because I really respected the two guys: Brian Shin and Mark Roberge.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 24, 2025

Riding Boldly Into New Frontiers: How Kevin Bulger is Blending Adventure, Investment, and Impact Across Continents Kevin Bulger I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Bulger. How did you break into tech investing? www.articlesofstyle.com What is it that excites you about investing? Thank you so much for joiningus!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Why Invest? And while my relationship with Chuck was critical to my investment, so too was the leadership of Trevor Templar , the Chief Revenue Officer. In all my time investing I have never seen such a senior revenue officer join a company at this stage. Why Invest? This is the area where Tact has crushed it.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The concept of building networks of support, or what has sometimes been referred to as, forging “entrepreneurial ecosystems”, has been a key focus for many advancing the idea that innovation and entrepreneurship will be the future of not just our recovery- but the necessary inclusive pathway for economic advancement and wealth building for all.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2022

The funding will be used on Anfin’s product development, especially its social investment features, including one that lets users host and join live audio rooms. Its fractional trading features lets users starting investing with as little as 10,000 VND (or about 40 U.S. Anfin founders Hiep Nguyen, Phuoc Tran, Chi Pham and Michael Do.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

In my Twitter bio is says that I’m “ looking to invest in passionate entrepreneurs ,” which almost sounds like I was just looking for a cliché soundbite to describe myself. Yet along with “authenticity” they are two of the key attributes I look for when I meet with companies I may consider funding one day.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

I’ve worked very closely with Matt over the past four years as we share an investment in a company in Los Angeles called NextPlus and we sat on a board together for years. He’s had a ton of recent successes in enterprise software investments but also has a history in doing consumer deals. He’s committed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

For example, my company, Entire Productions, has been referred to businesses by EO members, and when appropriate, we also refer business to EO member companies. EO is a non-solicit peer group, but when asked organically, we do a lot of business with each other. When COVID hit, I also hit a professional low point.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 25, 2021

We are often referred to as the Sandwich Generation—caught in the middle between aging parents and children. Financial arrangements, including but not limited to: bank accounts, investment portfolio information, properties, LLCs or partnerships, safe deposits boxes. a broker/dealer (Member SIPC) and registered investment advisor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. million for the debut investment vehicle — waitlist not included. million seed funding round led by Initialized Capital, with investments from GSR, NEA and Canaan.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The timing of the announcement of this investment couldn’t have been timed more perfectly if we tried. And before that you might enjoy this longer analysis on why I invested in DataSift in the first place , which was written 2.5 And from an investment perspective I remain incredibly long DataSift. ” What gives?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 30, 2024

Our team at a16z bio + health has outlined several frameworks for thinking about AI applications in healthcare ( here , here , here ), and one I reference frequently is a simple 2×2 diagram of tasks that are easy vs hard for humans, and easy vs hard for AI. Which bicycles are worth building?

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I had dinner this week with a top new customer at one of our enterprise software investments. I wish I did more enterprise software investing because when I attend meetings like this I realize that this is my core DNA – rolling out business software solutions to customers. If they want to invest that’s great.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

We used Dumbo as a reference and talked about how the critical mass of Two Trees buildings created a neighborhood with multiple destinations. There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year. But who is going to run the conference?

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 27, 2017

For VCs: Be upfront about the possibility of you investing now versus whether this is a "get to know you" kind of thing. Make references to founders you've backed available upon request. So here are a few things both sides should do to make the whole thing go a lot smoother. Are you a fund? Is it personal money?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

While investing in fixed income may have received less focus over the past decade (with historically low interest rates), times have changed, and higher rates (and inflation) are putting the opportunity cost of not investing idle cash into sharp relief. We’re thrilled to be investing alongside Venrock, Contrary, Neo, and Henry R.

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Source Link

JUNE 8, 2021

This federal shift in investment and policy represents a tremendous opportunity for economic developers, community champions and grassroots ecosystem organizers who want to transform their local economies as their community recovers from the devastating economic impact of COVID-19.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 28, 2022

It is also true that there are good deals and good entrepreneurs that can’t find anyone to invest in them. Instead of references, I like to give a list of every entrepreneur I’ve ever worked with and an email address. Tell them how much you will invest and how much ownership you want. That is a failure of the system.

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Source Link

MARCH 29, 2021

In guiding organizations through the process of deploying Community Navigators (we often refer to them as Network Navigators), it’s been our experience this model can be successful in communities of all sizes—whether that’s impacting small towns like Klamath Falls or scaling to statewide initiatives in Kansas , Missouri , Wisconsin and Iowa.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. It is a household name. And they have. Innovation. MakeSpace set out to reinvent the whole category.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Investments did pick up, and from July, VC funding on the continent had a bullish run until December. To better understand how VCs invested in Africa during 2020, we’ll look into data from Partech Africa, Briter Bridges and Disrupt Africa. billion and $1.8 billion by the end of the year. Behind the numbers.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

We refer to people as "great entrepreneurs" in the startup community all the time--but are they? Same with investments. I was talking to someone recently about striving and desiring to be great at what you do. That brought up the question of what makes someone truly great at something. Greatness outperforms.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

When you meet Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, Yinon Costica, and Roy Reznik, it’s no surprise that companies reference deep partnership with the Wiz team as one of the “no-brainer” reasons to work with them. No one describes Wiz better than its own customers: “They’re the Porsche of security.”

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 2, 2021

Unconscious, or implicit, bias refers to the underlying attitudes or beliefs about other individuals or groups, based on identity traits, outside our own conscious awareness. Businesses have a healthier workforce, higher productivity and greater profitability when focusing on equity, diversity and inclusion.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A scalable business model refers to a framework that enables a company to increase revenue without a proportionate increase in operational costs. Invest in research to better understand your market and customers, and make sure your business is adaptable enough to respond to evolving demands. What Is a Scalable Business Model?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

When you’re hiring most reference checkers focus on the person’s former bosses. Just literally this week I had breakfast with a guy giving a reference who said, “He’s brilliant. In fact, just a short Google search reveals that I’ve referred to him frequently through the years. But he knows it.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In a perfect world, everything about a potential investment will be confidence inducing. The team will be great and reference well. There will always be things about a potential investment that create heartburn. The market will be huge. The technology will be well developed. The price and terms will be attractive.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 18, 2021

According to Business 2 Community , “Competitor-based positioning focuses on using the competition as a reference point for differentiation. Competition. Brands highlight a key difference their product/service offers in their marketing to make it seem favorable and unique compared to other options in the marketplace.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

You’re adding unnecessary “purchase friction” If your deck is something I should open 3–4 times as I’m contemplating an investment, why add any consumption friction to the reader? Because I invest in “ lines, not dots ” it’s actually the delta that I’m investing in. Many of my colleagues do, too.

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