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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

8AM Regulatory Scrutiny of Social Media: The Impact on PR Communicators in 2010 and Beyond. We're kicking off 2010 with demos from four exciting new local startups. RSVP: [link]. Tuesday, January 26th. RSVP: [link] Wednesday, January 27th. We're also trying out a swanky new space at the TAJ Lounge in midtown. RSVP: [link].

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Cash on Cash vs IRR

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Our first Opportunity Fund, raised two years later in 2010, has generated only 3.9x And our second Opportunity Fund, raised in 2014, has generated 7.3x Our Opportunity Funds invest in the later stage rounds of our top-performing portfolio companies plus a few later-stage investments in companies that are new to USV.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

In particular part three talked about what happened if we saw a double dip in 2010-11 or a “lost decade.&#. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. We did not. Fundings boomed. August 2011. What’s happening?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

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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Lighting the torch of change: Youth volunteering in Haiti

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Jimmy has been with ADIVAH since 2010, after an earthquake that destroyed his community. The organization saw an opportunity to “light a torch of change by providing dynamics of self-transcendence” that would help promote national strength, especially to leaders in positions of resolving conflicts and finding solutions to problems.

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How I learned to change the oil in my car and found a new office because of Shake Shack and a hackathon

This is going to be BIG.

It''s super interesting to go back and trace connections and relationships that led to new opportunities. 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.

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Paul Graham and The World Out There

This is going to be BIG.

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.