This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 3, 2016

That was a question posed to me by a new analyst at a venture capital fund. While there are lots and lots of really kind, generous people working in venture capital--the recently retired Howard Morgan, Hunter Walk, Brad Feld, and Karin Klein for example--it's really tough to argue that there isn't widespread jerkery. 5) We *are* jerks.

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Revolution

MAY 23, 2023

Part of the antidote for startups: employing a more prudent approach to raising capital and curating a diverse investor base. To shed additional light on this issue and its ultimate impact on startups, I partnered with the Center for Real Estate Technology & Innovation to ask proptech founders about their capital and strategic partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

One of the points I tried to make is that as venture capital investors as an industry we seem to have a healthy disdain for public market investors. What is your revenue growth rate and what does this imply about your number of months of capital remaining? I spoke at Michael Kim’s excellent annual Cendana VC/LP conference today.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 5, 2021

The issue is “unhosted wallets” and how regulated exchanges and other “hosted wallets” interact with them. So in late December, the Treasury Department issued a notice of proposed rulemaking seeking to make the rules around sending cryptocurrencies to unhosted wallets much more restrictive than cash.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 18, 2021

In early June, I wrote this post explaining that I and we need to do more to reduce the inequality issues for Black people in tech, venture capital, and startups. I believe that the inequity issues are so severe and deeply rooted that it will take a concerted effort over a number of years to truly erase them.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 19, 2021

Over the last 18 months, the early-stage financing market has seen dramatic changes characterized by these three things: A shift from in-person fundraising to virtual fundraising A reduction in financing process timelines from months to weeks A continued increase in the amount of capital available for early stage companies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 5, 2020

This year’s IWD falls on 8 March, 2020, and its focus is #eachforequality, which recognizes that equality is not a women’s issue—rather, it’s an economic issue. For starters, I think we’re going to see a major shift in the way that women-owned start-ups raise capital.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2020

It will require countries and institutions to re-allocate capital from other endeavors to fight against a warming planet. This is the decade we will begin to see this re-allocation of capital. We will see massive capital investments made in protecting critical regions and infrastructure.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. That is good news for the innovation economy because healthy capital markets are a necessary support system. However, optimistic capital markets are necessary but not sufficient for a healthy innovation economy. Let’s start with litigation.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2019

What society does about this situation stands as the most important issue in tech at the start of the 2020s. 2/ The massive experiment in using capital as a moat to build startups into sustainable businesses has now played out and we can call it a failure for the most part. And talent is really the only thing that matters these days.

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

Dreamit Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman recently sat down with Jeff for a wide-ranging conversation on real estate tech, and a large part of that conversation focused on what founders can do to successfully raise venture capital from real estate tech investors. The startup turns newly built, vacant units into pop-up hotels.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 3, 2025

This brings Culina Healths total capital raised to an impressive $20 million, propelled by its 117% year-over-year growth, strong patient engagement, and remarkable clinical outcomes. The company, which focuses on providing personalized nutrition support has successfully raised $7.9 million in a Series A funding round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

As the technology industry retrenches and venture capital firms tighten their standards, savvy founders should consider this counterintuitive question: Even if my vision is compelling enough to secure funding, should I take it? Would it have been better for many of them to have not taken excessive levels of venture capital in the first place?

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

At the time, each senior leader was required to write a monthly letter to the two of them, outlining their activities but also raising issues or posing questions about the business that only the founders could address. We already know we’re outliers in the blue-shirts-and-khakis world of venture capital.

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Dream It

APRIL 3, 2020

Do you have a track record that proves you’re a credible source of advice on this issue? Your team must examine the impact of the issue for either the target company or the industry as a whole. Look at issues analysts are flagging. You can assume that the company’s investors are pressuring management to solve these issues too.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Register Venture capital firm Goodwater has concluded its latest funding round, raising $1 billion in capital commitments for its fifth early-stage and third opportunity-style funds. Most of the capital, 60%, will be allocated to early- and seed-stage startups. With this successful raise, the firm now manages $3.3

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Many themes came up, such as overcoming issues with funding, navigating unstable governments, expanding your business, and dealing with competition. Here are Michael’s expanded answers to the most asked questions about these issues, including links to some of our past articles to help elaborate on these themes. .

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

With this, the Japanese government now allows startups the flexibility to secure capital using crypto assets in addition to conventional stocks. Although the right to issue stablecoins remains limited to regulated institutions, such as banks and remittance service providers, the crypto industry has warmly received this change.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

After 9 months it was time to raise seed capital and go test drive our new software and processes. Sam moved back to NY and we announced our seed round of capital, which we led. They did customer pickups, the drove vans to storage facilities, the deal with booking and customer support issues – everything.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 20, 2025

But when money is the issue, your time, energy and focus are drained from other important areas of your life or business. If fixed expenses, especially payroll, are paid out before cash is received from services or shipments, the company is financing its growth with ever-increasing working capital needs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. A great CFO can help you negotiate venture debt to extend your runway or cover these working capital timing issues. And board confidence matters in growing companies.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2023

My reaction and proposal to the entrepreneur… Shortly thereafter, in a board meeting, I brought up the issue of starting to pay board members for service in cash or in stock options, typical for outside board members but rarely for venture investors. The post Need investment capital? first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Or that venture capital is a meritocracy? This doesn’t take into consideration, however, that venture capital is a financial product—a product that works for some people and doesn’t work for others. We know what the racial and gender wealth disparity looks like: This is a lesson taught to be by Jewel from Collab Capital.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 30, 2019

I was reminded yesterday how much of a s**t show raising seed capital via SAFE notes is. Here is why: They defer the issue of valuation and, more importantly, dilution, until a later date. I think dilution is way too important of an issue to defer, for even a second. I have never been a fan of convertible notes. This is WRONG.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Despite 2022’s heel turn, the ten-year funding trend line still points to VCs concentrating less capital in the major coastal hubs and more in the rest of the country, a collective area of focus for attendees. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

There’s another issue I can add to your list of things to be aware of – information rights. Generally speaking in venture capital financings the legal documents will specify that only “major investors” (a threshold set in the agreement – which can be $500,000 investor or more). You betcha. Speaks on CNBC.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Venture capital is about backing the leaders of tomorrow who imagine the world as it should be and aren’t constrained by what it is today. As an industry we’re not always as good as we could be about our own “creative destruction” to create the tomorrow of venture capital.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

The venture fund launched a completely virtual program with a focus on helping 13 Urbantech, Healthtech, and Securetech startups with business development, customer growth, and capital raising in a time of economic uncertainty. pic.twitter.com/oNozwB4OF3 — Dreamit Ventures (@dreamit) March 19, 2020.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 28, 2022

So I am reposting it below: The venture capital business is highly competitive. Don’t issue exploding term sheets. Talk about the strategy issues facing the company. Try to help with these issues even before you are an investor. Not this one. It is as relevant today as when I wrote it almost twelve years ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Simply put – I’d be in search of a VC who had an intuitive sense of my product, my customers, my organizational issues, my competitors, etc. I see some who either don’t realize they need to step in and mediate when issues arise or know that it needs to be done but lack the skill or the will to do so. Nail on the head.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 25, 2020

5/ We must commit to addressing this issue and make it a priority. Ten years ago the the tech/startup/venture industries started to make gender balance a priority in management teams, boards, and the venture capital industry. We can use the same approaches and the same persistent approach to the issue. Often the answer is no.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 31, 2014

Maybe it''s an intro to a customer or maybe it''s helping you work through a particular issue. Getting a round going requires someone willing to say yes before everyone else does, and risk social capital by telling others they''re in. Venture Capital & Technology' 5) Who helps you before a yes. 8) Find a lead.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

They started their company in LA but a couple of years after raising capital from Khosla Ventures in the Bay Area they ended up relocating there. Local capital matters. I think government and community members need to understand that capital formation is an incredibly important part of economic revival. Local mentors matter.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

While many have gotten their burn rates way down, most startups still are losing money and will eventually need to raise capital in 2023. Good businesses with product market fit, positive unit economics, and strong leadership teams will raise capital although it will be at the new normal in terms of valuation.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

In late-March, the United Kingdom's Huawei Cyber Security Centre Oversight Board reported that the company had not fixed critical security flaws in its products, even after promising to patch specific issues back in 2012. Sequoia Capital led the round. billion user records that hackers compromised in 2017.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This matters because it brings new issues to light that simply were not as relevant to investors before. Investors won’t trust their precious capital to an entrepreneur who can’t manage their time.” Take a couple moments to gather yourself, have your deck ready, and trouble shoot any technical issues ahead of time.

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