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JULY 21, 2014
Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. Make sure your board challenges you enough about long-term vision & innovation. And I can tell you from 20 years of experience that if your revenue figures are strong very few boards will challenge you beyond your short-term financial successes and 12-month plan.
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MAY 19, 2010
Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010.
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DECEMBER 11, 2022
Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out. Within 5 years I was on the board of real businesses with meaningful revenue, strong balance sheets, no debt and on the path to a few interesting exits. Hey, we got to raise again next year. Let’s deploy faster! How’s that advice holding up?
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JULY 26, 2022
If I look back to the beginning of the current tech boom which started around 2009, we often wrote a $3–5 million check and this was called an “A round” and 12 years later in an over-capitalized market this became known as a “Seed Round” but in truth what we do hasn’t changed much at all.
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MAY 15, 2010
Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009. Addressable advertisements are capable of being targeted to the individual household.
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. While I or other full time partners may sit on the boards of 8-10 companies each Hamet will sit on the board of 4-5.
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OCTOBER 15, 2014
I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. So Nick drove strategy & tech from the UK and remained an active board member and CTO of the company.
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