Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors. Here Cincinnati was really creative to its approach to attracting more venture capital to the region – including this author.

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UBI Global

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Recognizing the Top Business Incubators and Accelerators from the World Benchmark Study 2019-2020 In 2012, a Swedish student wondered, “What are the traits of the most successful top-performing university incubators worldwide?” The answer at the time was unavailable; the landscape was unmapped, unexplored, and unranked.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Mayor Eric Garcetti at Upfront Summit, February 2017 I first sat down with then councilman Eric Garcetti on the Ides of March 2012 — almost 5 years ago exactly. He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 5, 2020

I like to tell the story of when I met Brian Armstrong, the founder of our portfolio company Coinbase in the summer of 2012. There was no social proof on these investments other than the fact that nobody else wanted to make the investment as much as we did. You can call it negative social proof.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 1, 2013

In 2012, I started my second company--a venture capital firm called B rooklyn Bridge Ventures. Becoming an entrepreneur again has been a ton of work, but incredibly rewarding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Community builders. Open & transparent. Approachable. And Greg was a perfect match for all of these. So I began talking to him about joining the fund.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 6, 2020

In terms of pandemics, we remember avian flu (1997), SARS (2003) and MERS (2012). But we’ve all dealt with things that felt new and terrible at the time. Some of us remember the 2000 dot-com crash. Others recall the 2008 financial crisis. Think of the challenges you’ve already faced,” Rustand says.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Consider this blog post titled, “ Christmas 2012 Shatters More Smart Device and App Download Records.” But mostly they break through the noise of many other investment banks by having a POV. One of the masters of this in the startup technology world is Flurry.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 22, 2020

I’m betting on Duolingo (and have been since we made our seed investment in the company in 2012). Both TOEFL and IELTS, after spending a lot of time saying that online tests were no good, now have online options. So now the market is open to competition and the best product can win.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Research from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey indicated that about one in twelve children between the ages of three and seventeen had dealt with a communication disorder in the previous year. The Echo-integrated product enables them to alert staff in a hands-free way if they fall or have an emergency.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

It was written by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann and documents the 2012 election from the early GOP primary fights right through to the final outcome. And I can tell you from first-hand experience this is EXACTLY what goes on inside startups. It is written by two long-time insiders with first-hand accounts from the campaign trail.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. How’s that for an ex painter? When Sam Teller first encountered Tracy he knew instantly he wanted to work with her. Sam just told me, “You HAVE to meet Tracy. She’s infectious.” ” He was right.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

When Raul Gutierrez was fundraising for Tinybop in the fall of 2012, he didn''t actually finish the round--instead getting about three quarters of the way and then deciding to just get started working on the app. Not hot--and it wasn''t a deal that anyone pat me on the back for "getting into".

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

However, since joining EO Sydney in 2012, I’ve had the pleasure of being surrounded by inspirational women who have not only had my back, but supported me on the rollercoaster of entrepreneurship and inspired me to be “more”.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

For example, while I closed on the seed investment in Tinybop on November 19, 2012, I met Raul two years earlier at the first Brooklyn Beta in 2010, even before he was working on the company.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. Sometime in the next few weeks, I’ll complete my next investment. It will also be my last venture capital deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

With a massive increase in companies created and a huge number of sources one trend that we witnessed from 2012–2015 was the rise of the undisciplined round. Now seed funding is conventional wisdom. I Leaderless Rounds. This works in a booming market or in a company that never hits any headwinds. Non VC Growth Rounds.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

In late-March, the United Kingdom's Huawei Cyber Security Centre Oversight Board reported that the company had not fixed critical security flaws in its products, even after promising to patch specific issues back in 2012. The government body also said that it doesn't believe Huawei has committed to fixing the security problems in the future.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The news this week that HQ Trivia has finally called it quits reminded me of this post I wrote back in 2012 about the difference in sustainability (and thus value) between entertainment and utility apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the problems in this structure. I only wanted one thing in the deal – Hamet. I stayed close.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. He became a VC at London-based Benchmark Europe (now Balderton) and then CEO of Endemol, a large multibillion media company best known for creating & owning global franchises for Big Brother, Deal or No Deal and other unscripted television.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

I graduated from college in 2012. I completed that program at the top of my class and I did what’s called an “attachment,” where I was posted with a company to learn. I’m still with the company today. LinkUp launched in 2017.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

These provisions make me uncomfortable but there are solid arguments for them, particularly when you are taking a company public and want to be able to keep it independent.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

MiTú, based out of Los Angeles, was founded in 2012 by three veterans from the Hispanic media world: Beatriz Acevedo ( recently named on the 25 most important digital media players on The Hollywood Reporter !) , Doug Greiff and Roy Burstin.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

And a heartfelt thank you to my VC friends, lawyers and portfolio executives who have spent their personal time counseling me in 2012. So here’s to all of you that work tirelessly behind the scenes to help companies achieve greatness.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

In a 2019 analysis, OpenAI found that from 1959 to 2012, the amount of power used to train AI models doubled every two years, and that the power usage began rising seven times faster after 2012. It’s already causing strain.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 15, 2024

My Journey to Overcome Burnout In 2012, after selling my most successful company for US$169 million, I hit the pause button on entrepreneurship to try to understand why I felt so miserable personally through so much of that 10-year journey.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Thank you to the team that had extreme success in 2012 and a more challenging year in 2013. I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014. Since I can’t thank every company let me acknowledge a few in confidence. I feel confident in our 2014 plans.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2019

Carlos Rivas was a student in El Salvador when he competed in the 2012 EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). After earning a spot as a finalist, he traveled to New York City to take part in the Global Finals.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2022

Wellesley High School, 2012. In 2012, he delivered a 12-minute commencement speech at Wellesley High School, in one of the most affluent towns in America. Here are a few of my favorites that fit this bill. David McCullough Jr., David McCullough Jr.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2016

GOAT (“Greatest of All Time) is a sneakerhead marketplace that is en fuego, but we led the company’s last financing round in 2012 (yes, four years ago) when they were an application for letting people join group dinners. On the surface that sounds unremarkable — fundings happen daily. But this isn’t just any funding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 2, 2020

Their competitors took advantage—and Kodak went bankrupt in 2012. Falling into confirmation bias—a cognitive bias in which we choose to ignore uncomfortable information, Kodak’s leadership overlooked the reality of a major market shift.

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Dream It

AUGUST 29, 2019

Around 2012, Google made a large number of acquisitions of smaller companies, but years later those companies were shuttered or open-sourced, and the pace of acquisitions fell. Companies like Google are making acquisitions when they need to fill a critical gap in technology and see an opportunity (i.e.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. But his challenges only make us a better place, he’s pushed us to make sure we’re building systems to better track our markets and measure performance. He’s pushed us to be out in the community more. He’s even challenged some of our sacred cows on investment philosophy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

” So I had a great apprenticeship period between 2007-2009 followed by a set of concentrated investments in 2009-2012 of which some already didn’t succeed and others have really blossomed into market leaders now reaping the benefits of product-market fit. These days I find myself doing less.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

We’ve come a long way from switching this blog to WordPress in 2009, my systematic vetting of the business idea in 2009 (after needing it myself due to the success of this blog crashing my dedicated server every time I got on Hackernews), the “ coming soon ” pre-launch in April 2010, our Series A 3-minute pitch in 2011, our incredible CEO Heather Brunner (..)

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period. So Investor A might have bought 20% of your company in 2012 and in 2013 with no addition money invested suddenly owns 40% of your company. But entrepreneurs – convertible notes have no MINIMUM!

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