Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

When Twitter first became popular with niche crowds in 2007 it seemed to take hold initially with bloggers. Bill Gurley , a well known VC from Benchmark Capital, seemed to have a 2-year hiatus from blogging and has now picked up the pace. And I’m enjoying being part of the two-way conversation again as I was from 2005-2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. Are “strategic investors&# (e.g.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I didn''t actually get to meet him in person until SXSW in 2007. Later that year, I sent a tweet that inspired a company that initially only Rob thought was a pretty terrible idea: Using FlickrEdit and a JungleDisk network drive to backup all my Flickr photos to S3. Venture Capital & Technology'

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Current rount: $8.14mm in Series A from Redpoint (lead), Foundry Group, with previous investors, First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital (Chris Sacca), Ravi Narasimham. Founded in 2007.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

More importantly, I know them both for a while--Hilary since August of 2007 through twitter and, of course, getting to work with her at Path 101, and Kara since I used to e-mail her about her Boomtown columns in the WSJ over ten years ago. Venture capital isn't a game or club any more than any other industry is.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS). Competitors: Google. Total raised: $18.3mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” I joined Upfront Ventures in 2007 and took over as co-Managing Partner in 2011 along with the founder, Yves Sisteron. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Capital of course drives scale advantages and when you have “winner take most” markets it also has a way of scaring away some investors from investing in the 3–5th “me too” competitors. Not really.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

I decided to go back through the Wayback Machine to figure out what Buddy has called itself over the years: 7/27/2007 – Application Developer: Buddy Media is the leading developer of applications for the emerging new media platforms, including Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). What are your predictions for the road ahead.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. We now serve many large clients like Dish Networks, Dignity Health, and U.S.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

This is something that we have experience at 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors. In a report on startup investing and “How the Rich Invest” Forbes notes that the Angel Capital Association counted more than 330 active angel groups in North America as of 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ).

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When I started leading deals at First Round Capital, I sourced investments in 8 companies. I watched Twitter blow up at SXSW in 2007—even got into the Twitter book about surfacing it to the USV team, which was awesome except for the part where Nick Bilton (of all people) felt the need to describe me as “shorter” (I’m 5’11”, thank you).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most prefer not to say this publicly for two reasons: 1) they have an entire portfolio of startups, many of whom are raising capital and 2) they prefer not to be attacked publicly or seem “anti entrepreneur.” Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. This is how VCs feel.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 26, 2023

Furthermore, the capital raised through the green bond issuance is supported by the Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility (CGIF), an Asian Development Bank trust fund. Established in 2007 and headquartered in Singapore , Apeiron Bioenergy is a globally integrated player in the bioenergy sector.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Existing investors Durable Capital Partners LP and Vulcan Capital also participated in the round. The company, which was founded in 2007, initially was a low-volume custom bike builder. Rowe Price Associates. The funding round — the largest of a U.S.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When deal-making slows, VC dollars typically favor the perceived market leader, starving other venture-backed businesses in the same space of capital. People join boards for many reasons, but one of them is to leverage their networks. This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Ten years ago startups were unusual. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. The acquisition marks eToro’s fourth major one since its 2007 inception.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Nash said on Twitter that the two met at LinkedIn, where Nash was himself VP of product management for four years beginning in 2007. It’s a good detail to know, considering that Nash has logged time at a wide variety of tech outfits over the years, making it hard to guess at whom he knows and from where.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

million in seed funding Investors: Led by Earth Venture Capital, with participation from Undivided Ventures, Investible, and climate-tech angel investor David Pardo Field: Solar-as-a-service solutions Future Plans: With the $1.5 Funding Details: $1.5

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. In 2007, it became one of the first markets in the world to issue contactless (tap-to-pay) cards. (A You can’t get a license without capital to absorb potential losses and be financially sound. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Direct-to-consumer, pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar distribution networks are offered by businesses like Sun King, enabling households and individuals to get electricity on the cheap. The solar energy company has also provided more than $500 million in solar purchase finance through a network of over 20,000 field agents, 36% of whom are women. “We

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

million women-owned firms averaged only US$130,000 in receipts in 2007, the most recent year for which data was available. Whitehead, who recently helped spearhead the first FDA-approved drug for women’s sexual desire, also recommended establishing an informal advisor network. Meet with many to find who best fits you.”. Take Your Time.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Capital allocation is a core part of any CEO’s job, and it’s particularly critical for growth-stage CEOs. Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D).

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion. So fascinating in fact that Hollywood made a feature film about it called The Social Network. It’s a fascinating story.

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StartupNation

JULY 28, 2021

In 2019, venture capital investment into U.S. While these numbers are increasing steadily, there is a long way to go before parity is reached in the venture capital world and we begin to see it flow through to funding decisions. Women-owned businesses grew 58% from 2007 to 2018 , and for women of color, they grew even faster.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Quona Capital and Kinea Ventures co-led the round. Through its network, the company claims that buyers can “find the best receivables in the market, suppliers get the best sales conditions, and sponsors strengthen their businesses and production chains.”. So what does that mean exactly? billion over the course of the year.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

By Joe Camberato – CEO National Business Capital. Hold team meetings, team building events, and outside the office team meals and group activities that encourage employees to bond and reawake their networking muscles. 2) Capitalize on Available Assistance Programs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The tech, meanwhile, is unique to SightCall, built over years and designed to be used by way of a basic smartphone, and over even a basic mobile network — essential in cases where reception is bad or the locations are remote. More on how it works below.). “The video solution has to work.”

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Individual accredited investors in typical angel deals put personal capital at risk for an equity share of growth-oriented, start-up companies. These anticipated outcomes were validated by “ Returns to Angels in Groups ” by Professor Rob Wiltbank in November 2007. – Need venture capital. – No partners identified. ++.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nillion, a web3 startup aiming to build a non-blockchain decentralized network, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. Its decentralized network utilizes Nil Message Compute (NMC), a mathematical development that was created by the team’s chief scientist, Miguel de Vega. (In

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Backblaze, based in San Mateo, California, has a very limited venture capital history. million in outside equity since our founding in 2007. It turns out that there are a few twists to the company’s filing that make it really worth our time. So, we’re digging in. Prior to issuing $10.0 Here’s a reminder.

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