Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I know that in late 2010 it’s not as popular to say this because we’re in the era of “super angels&# and feel-good startups. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. It’s hard to say.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so.

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DECEMBER 28, 2013

However, in this moment, I think one''s career in venture capital depends on changing your perspective. If you are a venture capital investor and you''re not preparing yourself to succeed in a more diverse ecosystem of entrepreneurs, you''re just going to get left behind. Venture Capital & Technology' Stop--AND think.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 27, 2021

Our first Opportunity Fund, raised two years later in 2010, has generated only 3.9x That explains why our 2010 Opportunity Fund has a lower cash on cash return but a much higher IRR than our 2008 early-stage fund. Our 2014 Opportunity Fund has a higher cash on cash return but a lower IRR than our 2010 Opportunity Fund.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 5, 2021

And I suspect it is getting more profitable, not less, as the capital markets and M&A markets are providing robust liquidity options for managers. These are the gross return multiples of all of the funds that are “mature” meaning the returns are pretty clear now: Multiple Year Of Initial Investment 8.66

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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. Monetization: virtual goods (1/3 of total revenues); Partnerships with major brands (currently partnered with H&M and Travel Channel); forecasted to hit 6mm users by end of Summer 2010.

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500

APRIL 28, 2020

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

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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. Venture Capital & Technology' 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. The rounds are bigger, sure.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

After seeing my ability to bring a big community together, she wound up introducing me to TK because he was running a hackathon of his own around the first Techcrunch Disrupt in NYC in 2010. Techcrunch Disrupt is where I met Steve and Jared from GroupMe and what led to me backing the company when I was with First Round Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). 15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited.

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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). first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Are “strategic investors&# (e.g.

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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. Venture Capital & Technology' What led me to knowing about that deal in the first place and when did that event happen?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010. currently has 70,000 publishers reaching 45mm readers.

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MAY 5, 2023

It will also be my last venture capital deal. Venture capital is a pretty opaque industry and if I can shed some light on what it’s like to do this, or to decide to stop doing it, I’m happy to help. I’ve decided that this is long enough for me—especially given the fact that when you’re in venture capital, you don’t just stop.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

I met him in April of 2010--almost two years before he got a venture round. It took almost two years for the company to raise their first outside capital from RTP and Greycroft--and honestly, my bad for not staying close to the company. It would be over two years until he took his first round of capital earlier in 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. Dave McClure argued passionately that since the overwhelming majority of exits are sub $100 million we need to readjust how much capital goes in. Answer: Not much. And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Bad times often require more capital but ironically this is when capital is dried up. But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. I avoided much of this.

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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. Venture Capital & Technology' I''ve been getting involved with a couple of different models related to labor marketplaces and platforms lately. Otherwise, the land of the 5-15% cut is just really tough to make a lot of money on.

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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

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. – That’s a tough question that as of 2010 is a hard to know for certain.

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JANUARY 1, 2011

I will be competing in my third triathlon and aiming to break 2:30—10 minutes faster than 2010. My oldest friend, of 25 years, is getting married. My parents will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. I will start the year on the board of a yet to be announced investment and as an observer on four other companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. Having a great early investor provides downstream capital with a “signal” that you are a company worthy of being paid attention to even if you haven’t scaled your metrics.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2014, I published a post called Do Startup Require Less Capital to Succeed than 10 Years Ago ? In the analysis, I created a metric, the return on invested capital (ROIC). In 2010, one venture dollar bought $1.24 First, availability of capital. It’s tripled from about $92m to more than $300M since 2010.

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2019

2/ The massive experiment in using capital as a moat to build startups into sustainable businesses has now played out and we can call it a failure for the most part. When I look back at the 2010s, I see a decade during which massive capital flowed into startups and much of it was wasted chasing the “capital as a moat” model.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

14mm in Series C; $25mm in Series B raised in March 2010; $44mm raised in total. I gave carve outs for Steamboat, Intel and Comcast Interactive Capital, all of whom I believe are more like VCs than strategic money and can be great to work with. Read more: SEC S1 Filing (amended 05-03-2010) , peHUB. Now Google is a VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were now set to close at $46 million in new capital. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this. So no prizes for guessing my New Year’s resolution for 2010.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” Funds like First Round Capital, True Ventures, Foundry Group, HomeBrew, USV and many others are still run by the founders and are still on the mission they started.

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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. Backupify would be the first of what is now a 50 deal track record across my time at both First Round Capital and my own firm, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. Others, not so much.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Consumer interest for this space is also attracting capital. She recalls going to her first trade show in 2010 and having to educate retailers on ingredients like chia seeds, coconut sugar and coconut oil. Stein plans to use the capital to expand the company’s team of 30 to be around 40 by the end of 2022. billion valuation.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. A bit laughable in 2010, just 12 years later. then bought GeoCities for $3.6

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APRIL 11, 2016

I know that white males get a majority of the venture capital funding. 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. Now, I've seen the stats and the studies. Not a single investor turned her down.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I’ve created 15 funds in the last year alone. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2010, Coupang is sometimes described as the Amazon of South Korea, but for years it has managed the impressive feat of achieving an even higher dollar retention rate than Amazon, according to a report by Goodwater Capital. Coupang consumer research by Goodwater Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

After a decade-long bull run, many venture capital funds have found themselves holding overvalued shares of companies whose IPO prospects have been either eliminated or significantly delayed. Greater geopolitical tensions around Taiwan The case for US venture capital outperformance by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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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. So I am reposting it below: The venture capital business is highly competitive. I often read things I wrote a decade or more ago and cringe at how out of date they have become. Not this one.

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