Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I have watched the likes of Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen and Fred Wilson talk openly and passionately about BitCoin. I only want to work on projects in which I believe can produce truly amazing change in an industry or in the world. I’m a VC. So of course I want (need) to make money for my investors (LPs).

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APRIL 3, 2010

Chris Dixon provided some commentary on Twitter that he believes I missed “the most important point about fund size.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million). Let me explain: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

I think the issue was mostly framed initially by Chris Dixon in his article The Problem with Taking Seed Money from Big VC s. The investor strategy is really determined by the management team. C Deals: Deals where the team makes little to no progress – C deals are also pretty easy. the $190 million).

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Or what about your sales team? Chris Dixon spoke of “ techies vs. normals ” as a metaphor that always sticks with me when thinking about products. Chris Anderson, “ the long tail “ Negraponte famously shaped our views in “Being Digital” by talking about Atoms becoming Bits.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. He teamed up with Jordanna Joaquina, a genetic counselor, to create an online version of what she was already doing in the physical world.

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TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. You should, too. (no,

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

These certainly are not the only funds playing in the space, but point to the quality of minds entering the space. As the year ended, things changed.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 19, 2022

Reflections Prompted By A Conversation Between a16z Crypto Leader Chris Dixon & The Verge’s Nilay Patel. It’s a characterization that has been tossing around in my head since reading Chris Dixon’s tweet about his interview with the Verge’s Nilay Patel. Good-Faith Skeptic.”

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TechCrunch

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

“If the company was able to use the Sequoia deal to drive its Facebook acquisition value higher, then in theory the founding team’s smaller share of a larger $ pie is greater than the larger share of a smaller $ pie. And represents great defensive value for Facebook as Chris Dixon aptly pointed out on Twitter.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Obvious examples include Chris Dixon, Keith Rabois, Aydin Senkut, Dave McClure, Chris Sacca, XG Ventures, Reid Hoffman and so on. And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. Mobile app? Just jump into the demo after intros.

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JULY 16, 2010

Team must be purely technical. Teams MUST be in the Bay Area. So Chris Dixon is right that super angels and seed funds should perform better than VCs – they’re taking higher risks due to an early stage. He has a set of clearly defined criteria in order to invest. Price MUST be in a certain range.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

An investor called the founder, spoke for 30 minutes on the phone and committed to funding having never met the team. If Nivi ever sent me a deal I’d meet the team without any question or pre-review. I know it was over heated when a deal where I wrote one of the first checks on (as an angel, not VC) went out on AngelList.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Chris Dixon called that “come for the tools, stay for the network” in this blog post. USV TEAM POSTS: And the way many/most of those networks were built was by delivering single user utility day-one and then building out network effects around that utility. We are seeing a different go-to-market action in web3.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Options are obviously a very important economic motivator for your first 3-5 employees and your most senior management team. The best policy is transparency – The stream on Twitter, as best as I can tell, started with Chris Dixon sending the following Tweet (see graphic). We had a lot of re-setting of expectations to do.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Qnary is one of numerous tools which can help build out your team members’ virtual presence. Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites. Her answer? ‘I

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We read each of these statements from Chris Dixon, Babak Nivi, Naval Ravikant and me. We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. Senior exec team is ex-QPass (mobile payments platform sold to Amdocs). We spoke briefly about why.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

” In a subtweet, Chris Dixon, general partner at a16z, shared charts depicting how much financial holding companies own of Web 2.0 But threat intelligence teams are still siloed and focus mostly on funneling data to security operation centers instead of communicating important information to other parts of the business.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Qnary is one of numerous tools which can help build out your team members’ virtual presence. Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2016

The probability of discovering product/market fit early, of hiring a great technical team, finding the right initial reference customers. Many different factors influence those chances: the founding team, the product itself, the pitch, the competitive environment, the press, ability to raise capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

The meme was kicked off by Chris Dixon with this post saying that term sheets need to be simplified and align investor / founder interests. One very important item from Chris’s original post that wasn’t picked up by Fred or Brad is founder vesting. I sum it up here (but read Chris’s link above).

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 20, 2015

Chris Dixon has a catch phrase for this type of business: come for the tool, stay for the network. The data from the free app can also be used to prioritize the leads for the FSEM’s inside sales teams, among other things. Third, the software usage can be used to bootstrap a market place and develop liquidity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

The Team – I’m on record as saying that 70% of my investment criteria are team related. If you haven’t read the post the thesis was that I care way more about watching the trajectory of your performance as a team (or individual) than I do about how good you “pitch” on the first day you come to see me.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. Chris talks in his blog post about your A round pricing being lower if you have a VC seed investor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Sean Lane co-founded Olive in 2012, and signed on Chris Olsen from Drive Capital as the company’s first investors. Claire also opened up about how she has grown as a leader, learned to listen to feedback from her team, and improved the culture at Aunt Flow. Now, nearly 10 years later, Olive has raised $856.3 It’s fun!

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2013

Representing the other point of view, Chris Dixon and Paul Graham pen monthly essays and posts which are better revised and often succinct, witty and always very well written. And I figure if I’m writing a blog post, I may as well publish it. I write sometime between 5 and 7am each morning when it’s quiet and I can focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

In Chris Dixon’s words, it wasn’t designed for normals. But here are the major problems if this model holds: - Every developer now has to have an iPhone development team. You’ve just hired your iPhone development team for you app. Within a year WAP became the laughing stock of the mobile industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

with Chris Dixon (Andreessen Horowitz). Alongside a16z founder Marc Andreessen, general partner Chris Dixon has been integral to the firm’s rise as a giant in the crypto VC world — he was an early investor in startups such as Coinbase, Uniswap and Oculus VR. Hear from Dixon about how a16z crypto is putting its massive $7.6

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