500

APRIL 28, 2020

Since 2010, we have expressed our commitment to those values in multiple ways. Long before diversity and inclusion became buzzwords, we decided to make venture capital inclusive from day one at 500 Startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2024

However, this perspective began to shift dramatically after 2010, thanks to technological advancements that facilitated remote collaboration. It revealed that post-2010, tools like Trello, Zoom, and Slack bridged the gap in remote collaboration, leading to a significant reduction in the innovation deficit previously observed in remote teams.

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JUNE 16, 2014

I went back across the 21 investments I''ve made both at First Round and at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --a period that dates back to January 28, 2010, when I closed on Backupify. What led me to knowing about that deal in the first place and when did that event happen?

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OCTOBER 10, 2014

Since January of 2010, when I led my first seed investment in Backupify , I have led or committed to 27 investments. It would have lots of philosophy, religion, theory, fiction, and pontification. However, since I only have time for a blog post, I''ll settle for actual data.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Jimmy has been with ADIVAH since 2010, after an earthquake that destroyed his community. ADIVAH is a group of youth volunteers who put their leadership into practice by serving the community. They truly live up to their name, as their actions “inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more,” the group says.

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DECEMBER 28, 2013

My own track record as a VC across First Round Capital and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures actually starts in January of 2010, *after* the Airbnb class of Winter 2009. Given that they do $17-20k per founder across 350+ companies, we''re in the ballpark of the amount of money we''re invested--just south of $10mm.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 1, 2021

After witnessing the financial crisis first-hand, Tim and I embarked on a new journey in 2010 by founding Elenteny Imports, offering innovative logistics services to buoy wine, spirits and beer companies during unprecedented times. Evolving into entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. And in a market with too much capacity (too many startups) the leverage was completely in the hand of buyers at M&A activity finally picked up. Today’s Normalization.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2014

My interest dates back to my 2010 investment in chloe + isabel back when I was with First Round. I''ve been getting involved with a couple of different models related to labor marketplaces and platforms lately. I was still at FRC when we invested in TaskRabbit and Uber, even though I wasn''t on those deals.

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500

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In 2010, 500 Startups started as a new kind of venture capital firm in Silicon Valley with a contrarian belief that talent can come from anywhere in the world. Back then, very few venture capital firms in the valley were focused on much outside of our collection of cities within the San Francisco Bay area. ”If

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

We first met five years ago through serendipity as I described in this 2009 blog post and elaborated on again in more detail 2010. This is how Upfront Ventures came to fund Tristan Walker – one of the most talented and passionate entrepreneurs with whom we work whose new company is called Bevel.

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APRIL 11, 2016

Back in late 2010, when I was at a previous fund, I saw Chantel Waterbury of chloe + isabel run the table on a $3.25mm seed round--on a Powerpoint. Swing lower and there go your funding chances--because these are investors looking for only the biggest opportunities. Not a single investor turned her down.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. You find out those that have the fortitude to work out a new way forward, who can handle recapitalizations or downsizing or shutting down business lines or hiring whole new teams.

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JULY 22, 2015

In 2010, a bunch of techies got together to do the next year's NYC Triathlon. I'm excited to be able to finally announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures ' investment in Clubhouse , a company I agreed to back before I even knew what it was. I had already done two and was looking forward to joining people from the tech community.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In 2010, Gastón participated in a social assistance trip to Peru; recognized the different social, political and economic needs of the area; and saw how his actions could affect the individuals in the community’s lives.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 28, 2022

So I clicked on the link to my Competing To Win Deals post, which I wrote in 2010, and read it. Here’s what I sent him: 1/ Startup = Growth by PG: [link] 2/ Competing To Win Deals by Fred Wilson: [link] pic.twitter.com/q7GG2k7UAX — Semil (@semil) March 27, 2022. Not this one.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

In 2010 the City of Los Angeles started trying to crack down on tax receipts of Internet startups allocating them to the least favorable gross-receipts tax bracket taking up their city tax by 500%. Consider the case of LegalZoom, one of our cities great startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 15, 2012

I didn’t get my first one – believe it or not – until 2010. I was jealous watching all my friends surf the web on their iPhones. And all the Apps. Instagram and the like. I had to keep 2 devices. I carried my iPhone and Blackberry everywhere – one in each pocket.

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MAY 5, 2023

This is how Fred Wilson described me back in 2010. I took a lot of pride in that when I first read it. Part of what I’ve always strived to do was to be present and accessible in the community—from the countless panels to the hundreds of neighborhood dinners we’ve organized over the last decade.

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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.

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MAY 7, 2013

Dana Settle (Greycroft) & I had led the first round of investment in the company in 2010 and we were looking for smart media investors to join us as investors in the company. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. We had a series of meetings with Ynon and thought he’s be a great addition to our team.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

. “There was no real framework for a $15 million fund at the time so I had to make one up … it was really sort of an experiment … I invested across Funds I & II in 90 companies” Jeff then raised $55 million in 2010 and $85 million in 2014.

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500

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

back in 2010. As venture dollars increasingly shift towards being deployed outside of the U.S., firms need to be thinking about their strategy to manage the trend towards globalization. 500 began making bets outside of Silicon Valley and outside of the U.S. Today, in 2019, 49% of our overall portfolio hails from outside the U.S.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since 2010, roughly a dozen venture-backed unicorns have emerged in and around Salt Lake, in no small part because Qualtrics put the city on the map for founders and VCs. And that mass of talent, in turn, continued to build in Utah.

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

In January of 2010, just a few months after I joined First Round Capital, I got to back my friend Rob May and his company, Backupify. Five years later, he sold that company to Datto, and I got to back him again to build Talla.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Venture capital valuations are up across every segment of the industry as can be expected by our 5-years of growth markets but they are up most pronounced in the late-stage financings where the median valuation has risen from $66 million in 2010 to $155 million in 2014 (a 24% CAGR). But about that “bubble” we always hear about?

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JUNE 13, 2012

I first met Wiley Cerilli on April 23, 2010. If you've ever met Wiley, you know you can bank on him maxing out that additional $30 million. You don't give a sales team like that a target without expecting him to crush it. I biked down Broadway to his temporary office space at SoHo Haven. Wiley was soft spoken and extremely professional.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 14, 2019

There was a time around 2010 and 2011 when Tumblr was the most engaging social platform that I was on. Tumblr was both a blogging platform and a social media application and while I always loved the versatility of the platform, native mobile applications benefit from simplicity, not complexity.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

At the start of 2010, there was some unwritten VC industry conventions that have been tested, challenged, and upended in the last decade. I don’t have the data, but I’d bet the “minimum ownership” requirements VC funds started 2010 with have gone down dramatically. What a difference a decade makes!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

In August 2010, after Thiel’s annual Singularity Summit event, Hassabis lined up along with scores of other hopefuls given literally one minute to pitch their ideas to Thiel. He discovered that self-made tech billionaire Peter Thiel had played competitive chess as a junior–like Hassabis, who reached world No. 2 for his age group at 12.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2019

in 2010 to 7.7% The losers in the 2010s were lower middle class and middle class people in the developed world whose incomes stagnated or fell. ” But the very poor also had a great decade as Axios also reported: The rate of extreme poverty around the world was cut in half over the past decade (15.7%

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

When Chantel asked investors for $3mm for her seed round back in 2010, people stood up and took notice. There's so much transparency in the market around fundraising and entrepreneurs are so connected to each other, that it seems unlikely someone wouldn't get the encouragement to go after a $1mm or more round without having something real.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

But as LA as a tech community grew massively the percentage of our LA deals went from 15% to 50% from 1996 to 2010 and it has remained solid since then. Also, many of our deals were in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco or London.

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JUNE 5, 2015

The truth is that I’ve been warning about convertible notes since 2010 it was first declared that “convertible notes have won.” Over the years I’ve written extensively about the downsides of convertible notes for startups such as here , here and here.

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Revolution

MARCH 1, 2023

We looked at the analysis in two parts: the 1997–2010 time period and the 2011–2020 time period. 1997–2010 The chart above captured fund vintages that were fully-seasoned and had distributed most of their holdings. 2010–2020 We then looked at the top quartile fund performers for fund vintages since 2010.

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