Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1.

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Jason Calacanis

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Unlimited venture capital for any winning startup (defined as a startup that can get to $500,000 in revenue), with reasonable gross margins and burn. Github, AWS, WeWork, Fivver, Upwork, and the global workforce meant a startup could launch a product in a 12-week incubator and scale it to millions in revenue in a few years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon. Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started ( today and 2005 ), largely due to the emergence of cloud technologies, no-code tools, and artificial intelligence.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

There's no specific agenda or goal, other than to bring together all of the people that have an interest in this great community and its ability to incubate cutting edge and creative ideas. Honestly, it was a fair bit of hand waving and maybe a little smoke and mirrors--saying in 2005 that we had a ton of startup-ready tech talent.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country. However, the decline may also be a function of large tech firms setting up incubation hubs to cut up and absorb talent. So how are they doing?

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2015

I remember reading about Google’s Android acquisition in 2005 and wondering what would become of the technology; and then later at Google seeing some of the first versions of the G1, the first Android phone. Redpoint partner Tim Haley recruited Satish to become an EIR at Redpoint and incubate Zimbra.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. Ycombinator, the incubator of billion dollar unicorns, is a unicorn itself.

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