A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And so crypto projects get stuck in this never never land and have to craft crazy frankenstein financings or risk getting sued by the SEC (and/or both) in order to raise money and get their tokens in the hands of community members. But the SEC views crypto-tokens as securities until the crypto-networks are sufficiently decentralized.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 6, 2024

I’ve been sued as a board member too many times over the past twenty-five years of board service. In one case, an aggressive lawyer found all the members of an LLC, and sued every member found. The post I’ve been sued as a board member. Five times. Does that shock you? It does me. What’s the exposure? I am one of those.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In the wake of the news yesterday that the FTC plus 46 states and a few other locales sued Facebook for being a monopoly, I want to, yet again, argue for a different, more modern, and more powerful regulatory approach to tech monopolies. I first posted this a year and a half ago , and have reposted it at least once since.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 9, 2012

Instead, they’re kicking up a notch the kind of mentality that the record industry had when it was suing its own customers instead of coming up with innovative new business models. This is what movie studios and the rest of the SOPA supporters need to do. Back to Senators Schumer and Gillibrand.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 15, 2020

Ryan Decker de North Central College; al tiempo que a gregamos algunos recursos adicionales, para ayudarle a concentrarse en la administración de su dinero cuando no está seguro de lo que vendrá después. Durante un momento de incertidumbre en los ingresos, obtener información actualizada puede aliviar su estrés y sus preocupaciones.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 30, 2019

Investors pass on your funding pitches, people pass on your job offers, customers pass on your sales efforts, competitors take your customers and your employees, you get sued, you miss critical ship dates, morale tanks, and on and on and on. You take a lot of losses as a founder, particularly in the early days.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

An interesting case with a few critical business lessons Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

This was the battle plan that Cloudflare came up with: After we were sued by Blackbird, we decided that we wouldn’t roll over. Our portfolio company Cloudflare posted yesterday about the two and a half year war it waged against a patent troll called Blackbird.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Kdan Mobile founder and CEO Kenny Su. Launched in 2009, Kdan Mobile has focused on developing content creation and productivity software for mobile devices from the start, founder and chief executive officer Kenny Su told TechCrunch. Image Credits: Kdan Mobile. We always sensed that trend would continue.”. and Asia markets.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

YouTube was built on the back of illegally uploaded media—and today it’s one of the biggest marketing and revenue generators for these same media companies that sued the site for billions in the early days. There are a lot of parallels here to Web 2.0 and the earliest emergence of UGC.

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Gust

JULY 3, 2012

Granted no business owner wants to see his or her customers sued, but the liability issues that can kill a startup of this nature or render it unfundable are ones of secondary liability : In legal parlance, is Pinterest liable for contributory or vicarious infringement because of what its users are doing?

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

. “The not-so-secret secret here is that the key to great retention is really simple ,” said growth expert Susan Su recently at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising. “I firmly believe that every founder should try their hand at growth,” said Su. . Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and its close collaborator (and investor), Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

And do I need to join The New York Times and other publishers in suing to get some of it? Should I, as the author of over 9,000 blog posts that have been used to train these large language models, be entitled to some of the revenue they will make? OpenAI generated over $1.5bn in revenue in 2023. Should I get some of that?

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Paul Graham explains : We tell the startups we fund not to worry about infringing patents, because startups rarely get sued for patent infringement. Startups are too poor to be worth suing for money. There are only two reasons someone might sue you: for money, or to prevent you from competing with them.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 9, 2021

René a sistía a la universidad en su país de origen , Chile, donde estudiaba inge niería eléctrica. E n la universi dad empezó a investigar a un grupo de personas con distintos niveles de visión que expresaban su frustración p or lo difícil que les resultaba realizar muchas de las tareas cotidianas. Por Bryce Kelly .

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 7, 2019

As expected, the SEC sued USV’s portfolio company Kik this week.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Growth marketer and investor Susan Su tells us that the solution is not just more software tools. Su is currently the head of portfolio strategy for Sound Ventures, previously a growth leader at Stripe and the first hire at Reforge. How do you build this complex collaboration from scratch?

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Gust

OCTOBER 19, 2014

The bad news is that patent trolls (non-producing companies that make their money from licensing patents) can squeeze the lifeblood out of unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the recent mess around Lodsys suing small Apple IOS developers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

In late December, The New York Times sued OpenAI and its close collaborator and investor, Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content. Today, OpenAI gave a public response, claiming — unsurprisingly — that The Times’ lawsuit is meritless.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

You can’t have the NYT suing you or griping all the time, because, at the end of the day, you need them for distribution. How many cool sites are out there that do interesting stuff with music that have “all the indies signed up” but can’t get any of the majors on board. The same goes for textual content.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

It was founded by Alex Sailer, Tiffany Wong, Hayden Jensen and Andy Su. . Before starting Pry, Su was co-founder of InDinero, another YC alum that started as a “Mint for small businesses” before pivoting to a full-service accounting company. And you’re spending a lot of time on payroll each month,” Su said.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 6, 2025

He sued for age discrimination and was awarded $500,000 for his efforts. A story to illustrate One story just keeps reverberating through my mind after several years of hearing it from a fellow CEO. In brief, an employee with an alcohol problem that he took to work was fired after several warnings. Small company; outrageous outcome.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I have witnessed companies get sued of stupid stuff as a result of not being buttoned up. I have seen many companies who without a great CFO have squandered a great product or service. I have seen businesses run out of money and either shut down or fire CEOs over lack of financial controls or planning.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Extra Crunch) Susan Su on how to approach growth as your startup raises each round : Managing Editor Eric Eldon recaps growth marketing expert Susan Su’s talk from TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing & Fundraising. Su goes through a sample qualitative growth model and the importance of always having a growth team.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

One really great experience was a discussion I had with the camera rolling with my good friend Dmitry Shapiro who founded the major YouTube competitor of its time (Veoh) that was sued into oblivion by Universal and who also founded a social network designed to promote pseudonymity.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 17, 2018

I’ve been sued as a board member too many times over the past twenty-five years of board service. In one case, an aggressive lawyer finding all the members of an LLC, and suing every member found. Five times. Does that shock you? It does me. Entrepreneurs blaming their board for failures of a fragile, early stage company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

I met Catherine several years ago at the request of my good friend and colleague Mike Su. Go to prison with Defy Ventures. The rest will just happen. And you will never see our society in the same light. He kept telling me how profound this prison program was and would I meet Cat. Yeah, yeah, whatever Mike. Sure, I’ll meet her.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This time, the ICC is suing UpCodes for false advertising and unfair competition, claiming that the startup’s copies of building codes are “incomplete and riddled with errors.” In 1980, BOCA sued private publisher Code Technology for publishing and selling its own edition of building code that was adopted by Massachusetts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su said that the acquisition is about helping data center operators lower the cost of ownership by using software to squeeze out every last bit of efficiency. The company claims between 8x and 13x better performance than competitive products from companies like Nutanix, VMware, Cisco and others.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI are being sued in a class action lawsuit that accuses them of violating copyright law by allowing Copilot to regurgitate sections of licensed code without providing credit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Tsung-Hsien Wen and Pei-Hao Su — met at Cambridge’s dialog systems group, Mrkši? Google (Wen) and Facebook (Su) laid the groundwork for many of the company’s conversational AI systems. PolyAI’s founders — Mrkši?, explained, a research lab focused on spoken dialog systems.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Sonos sued Google in 2020. Sonos also sued Google at the International Trade Commission. Google held out for years, dragging out negotiations while its profits ballooned and Sonos lost more and more money. Seven years later, Sonos was left with no choice but to defend its rights in court. But it can’t reward damages.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

This became evident when the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER) announced last week that it was suing Fearless Fund. That the tech industry and its backers are not separate from the economic fabric of this nation and the mores of our society.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 16, 2021

El emprendedor David Dávila cree que la clave del éxito de su empresa cafetera se halla en su comunidad de clientes apasionados. Cuando comenzó la pandemia de COVID-19, la becaria de la YLAI Janese Henderson trasladó completamente al mundo virtual su organización Jan’s Empowerment Institute. La consejería y la orientación.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 22, 2020

Los miembros de la Red YLAI que aprenden a ser resi lientes y a planificar lo inesperado están mejor posicionados para mantenerse a sí mismos y a sus negocios en tiempos de incertidumbre. Tómese un momento para reflexionar y ver cuál es su posición cuando se trata de prepararse para tiempos inciertos.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Before shifting its focus to marketing, Appier’s founders—chief executive officer Chih-Han Yu, chief operating officer Winnie Lee and chief technology officer Joe Su— worked on a startup called Plaxie to develop AI-powered gaming engines. Louis and Su has a M.S. in computer science from Harvard.

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