2008 opportunity VC 
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JUNE 28, 2010
One of things I’ve loved the most about doing now 11 weeks of This Week in VC is a chance to have an hour-long recorded conversation with investors. And in my interviews with many VCs I feel that people can watch these and get to know the VC’s as human beings a bit better. So how did Mike get into VC?
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JUNE 18, 2010
To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link. We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). This is astounding and myopic in my view.
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MAY 23, 2012
There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.
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AUGUST 9, 2011
I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. But I guess you could say the same about VC.
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OCTOBER 14, 2015
I spoke at Michael Kim’s excellent annual Cendana VC/LP conference today. You can read it in VCs discussions about hedge fund managers, activist investors or the need to have dual-share voting structures. The truth is that Twitter is an amazing company and still has an amazing opportunity in front of it.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
In 2008, I tried to fundraise for my startup the week that Lehman Brothers went under. Basically, VCs told us that they were going to wait and see how the election turned out--and things didn't really thaw out until the following September. Extreme uncertainty slows the VC market to a crawl--that's what I learned.
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
Now that he’s become a VC he’s promising me he’ll provide way more public information and discourse so please welcome him by following him on Twitter and better yet welcoming him with a Tweet of your own linking to his Twitter handle or this post. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. I stayed close. And he followed through.
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