A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 29, 2021

This should be obvious to AVC readers but I am a fan of short and sweet. Why take two pages to say something you can say in one page? Why take two paragraphs to say something you can say in one paragraph? Disclosure: USV is an investor in Duolingo and we stand to profit from their IPO.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Fewer and fewer tech entrepreneurs who obviously believe in science are going to want to be in a place where you have to debate with sitting governors, let alone your neighbors, the obvious value of a mask during a pandemic, or how female reproductive organs work. The other component you need is “core” industry.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It is an even harder decision to make when you don’t have an obvious replacement, or when you are not 100% confident that the obvious replacement will be an improvement over the current CEO. But those are not reasons to wait.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Think also about the nature of how you procure digital kinds of payments and services, e-com being an obvious one. So, you touched on trend one, which I think is really obvious now. But 10 years ago, that was a lot less obvious. Think about the ascendancy of the cloud in terms of technology environments. How does this go?”

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2024

It became obvious that it was valuable enough to both sides to keep it going and have it be a regular part of the fundraising experience in NYC. We did it again last October and, this time, we got over 150 investors to participate! Thanks to our sponsors, Withum and J&O Law , we’ll be doing this event quarterly.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Sometimes it's important to state the obvious. That democracies are fragile but that technology can help. And also that crowdfunding isn't always the best way to launch an innovative product. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Driver routing systems, scheduling, inventory management & tracking, warehousing systems, photography automation, customer service applications as well as the obvious front-end apps such as our consumer apps for keeping track of your goods. Thus Amazon’s market cap is $200 billion. What tech has our capital raised gone into?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Great entrepreneurs are great for the same reason, but it’s not always obvious from the outside. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

something that sounds obvious today but was rare circa 2007. Greener Greens: At the root of Sweetgreen’s farm-to-table concept was a commitment to sustainability. The company was built around the belief that real people want real food?—?something

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 7, 2021

It is increasingly obvious that the world will need to get off its addiction to carbon in order to stave off very serious climate impacts. If you bought carbon today at $60/ton and held it until 2030 and sold it at $150/ton, you would get 2.5x on your money and a roughly 11.4% annual rate of return.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 20, 2021

But a decade and a half later, it is obvious that we just replaced one type of media company for another and that we don’t really control our own media yet. Back in the early 2000s, it was exciting to blog and use social networks to create our own media and move away from the traditional media outlets. It was a powerful feeling.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

I like Uber as a service. It just works. I also like the fact that it seems to provide a lot of work for a lot of otherwise underemployed people. All of the drivers I''ve spoken to have said nothing but good things about it. They seem to like getting the work. Do I think that all of the executives are bad people?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2019

His 10th and last edition of the Non-Obvious Trends reports is out on January 7th and from my review it's good. Maybe there's a problem in your business that you're trying to solve, or you want to spot a new revenue opportunity, being able to see a non-obvious trend can help. The post Non-Obvious Megatrends 2020. Be observant.

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The Seraf Compass

JUNE 15, 2022

If the entrepreneur or I can’t put our finger on obvious alternatives to an IPO, something is wrong,” said Ron Conway, one of San Francisco’s most prolific and successful early stage investors. “There are only so many IPO candidates out there. I invest to make a return.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

But then mobile was the next obvious thing. And it sounds fuzzy if you talk about it and, kind of sort of obvious, but really this idea that in order to be good engineers needed to really sit down with the businesses and really deeply understand the why. In fact, we launched a little bit before Amazon. And it was really early days.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Seasoned entrepreneurs spot these mistakes in an instant Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

After friends and family… Once a company founder has tapped the funds available from his or her resources and from friends and family, if the company needs more cash for growth, the most obvious next step is to look for money from angel investors and venture capitalists, typically in the $300,000 TO $3,000,000 range.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

With turbulent economies, companies are looking for more revenue streams to survive, and one obvious way to increase revenues is to streamline costs. Given companies can often use both manual processing and sometimes even more than one external tool to manage B2B payments, this is an obvious area in which to improve efficiency.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 16, 2021

It’s not obvious — and I’ve been doing it 7 years. Let me show you exactly how content creators make money on LinkedIn. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 16, 2023

“Solving consumer engagement is worth $1 trillion to our organization,” said a health plan executive to me one day. He was obviously being a bit sensationalist with the magnitude of the number, but it’s been a common thread in strategic … The post Investing in Hippocratic AI appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

It’s always worth taking these vendor-sponsored reports with a grain of salt, but in the current economic climate, startups that can help enterprises save money are obviously at an advantage.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

The latest raise is led by Base10 Partners, with existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Obvious Ventures also returning to back the startup.

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Continuations

JULY 3, 2023

This was true for criticism of other iconic companies such as Uber and Airbnb also. For example, at one point Paul tweeted that “Uber is so obviously a good thing that you can measure how corrupt cities are by how hard they try to suppress it.” Tellingly, Paul never replied to anyone who suggested that his statement was too extreme.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

The obvious metric to review is how often your user opens the app toward the end of the period in question. If they are using it actively, this signals they are getting the expected (or hopefully even beyond expected) value from the product, increasing the probability of their renewing for another year.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Well, the obvious reason is they look like better risk/reward opportunities, but I think it’s also because generally the better brand name firms are doing the Top 10% deals. Valuations for the Top Decile of Seed Startups Have Fallen Less YoY While the Second Decile Have Been Hit Harder. Why are the Top 10% less impacted?

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Jason Calacanis

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

framework might seem obvious as you read it, it's easy to forget (like many simple things). It’s obvious why when you think about it. Since startups are most often resource-constrained, it's critical to look at what's taking up your time and ask the following three questions: Can we automate this (with software)?

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

And it just seemed obvious to me that someone would make a better bank product for for startups and for entrepreneurs. Immad: If you have a successful launch, like we did, it seems very obvious what is like hair on fire? And then there was this kind of 10-year period where things had generally improved. Or was it more fluid over time?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When the struggle is more obvious. “But it just feels like the pandemic made it even more obvious [to companies] what the struggle was.” As nascent efforts begin to get real investment, consumer edtech’s success will hinge on whether it can effectively, and consistently, translate its impact to employers in the long term.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

And while there are plenty of open source tools on the market, putting all of those together to build a cohesive platform doesn’t come easy — and that’s obviously where tools like Qwak come in.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

After Tesla, I went on to work on augmented reality and virtual reality because I just wanted to get experience with different domains. I thought that it was the right time to work on spatial computing. Obviously, in retrospect, it was too early back then. But on the output front, there are a lot of issues. Martin: So, there was no grand plan?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

As for why now, isn’t it obvious? Generative AI, says Rob Ferguson, AWS’ Global Head of AI/ML Startups, has unlocked new developments and creativity. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are some of the most transformative technologies of our generation, and have been a main focus area for Amazon for more than 20 years….

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 19, 2023

The bottleneck created becomes obvious and painful. How to tell when you’ve overcommitted this resource [Email readers, continue here…] We can always tell when this critical resource of corporate time has been over committed. Is a process or machine too slow to absorb and pass on work coming through it?

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

With the pandemic forcing people online, social media use exploded, for obvious reasons. And with that, the opportunity to reach audiences and push messaging. More brand-oriented platforms such as Sprinkler, Sprout Social and Hootsuite have obviously risen in use, but so did traffic to Oktopost, a much more B2B-oriented proposition.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 4, 2024

The obvious benefit: But most important, the unpredicted benefit of having very low infrastructure overhead may be the one most important element in saving the company during the strongest and longest downturn in recruiting industry memory because of COVID and the “great resignation” that resulted.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

What may not be obvious is that small businesses are under attack and they have been long before the COVID mandates and policies that have followed. Other small businesses are fighting for their lives and have to compete with enhanced government payouts to those not working, above and beyond traditional unemployment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Edge computing, where Azion and Pensando play, is obviously also a hot category right now and when where 5G has some obvious advantages, so it’s maybe no surprise that Qualcomm Ventures is putting a bit of a focus on these today with its investments in Azion and Pensando.

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