Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

This meant: Less capital to start a company thus the rise of “micro VCs” Younger, more technical founders (not as big of a leap to take a risk on a 24-year-old when it’s $250k and not $5 million. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Welcome to the future.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 19, 2020

Rosario Diaz Garavito, the founder of The Millennials Movement , didn’t look to be labeled as an entrepreneur and a leader in her community when she began her small social media movement promoting youth volunteerism in 2013. By Jewelle Saunders. She was just focused on doing the work. and she decided she could do something about it.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 17, 2014

— Charlie O''Donnell (@ceonyc) March 9, 2013. I had no idea she was a founder with a startup. She pounded the pavement for months looking for other investors who also wanted to take a shot at a first time founder team on a towercutting project. Putting together a little dinner of folks Sun night.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

I backed that company in 2013 when it was basically a table top science project, but the key was a series of connections that could have only been possible as a full time investor. I first met Daniela Perdomo , goTenna’s founder, at SXSW.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. Since 2015, Black and Latinx founders — who have fewer funding routes available to them to begin with — have raised just 2.4%

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

But 2012 me, a first-time half-Latino half-African-American founder from Costa Rica, coming from a university these guys had never heard of, nope. We foreign/minority founders come with increased risk, and that's the hard truth. Our ability to recruit talent may be affected if we are based outside significant startup hubs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

In driving down the costs of building businesses it’s driving down the age of startup founders and thus they’re starting companies where young people want to live – in urban environments. Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

It also demystifies any assumptions that our founders were “puritanical” – they were anything but. My kids are growing up in Los Angeles in 2013. I know, I know … just read the book). If you enjoy travel, language & culture as much as I do then buy all of Bill Bryson’s books and gobble them up.

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500

MARCH 18, 2020

I first met Flavio in 2013, when he co-invested alongside 500 Startups in Olist, one of Brazil’s largest online marketplaces–which recently raised a Series C round. Olist’s founder was in our San Francisco accelerator program, and in his next round of funding turned to Flavio, who was then president of Walmart.com in Brazil.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). The founders had been responsible for gaining staggering scale in the past 3 years, having been trail-blazers in building a network of talent and an unrivaled understanding of the YouTube ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Fortunately, that didn’t happen, and he kept on climbing and gaining skills and single-handedly founded his own company, one which has reached Series B and raised $33 million, a significant amount of money for any startup, but particularly for a startup run by a Black founder. It was eventually acquired by Virgin Mobile.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

— Brian Alvey (@brianalvey) November 10, 2013. This feels like a West Coast mentality, because deals seem to feel "hot" more often out there--I believe because of founder pedigree. It''s more often the case that founders are repeat entrepreneurs on the west coast. Feels like a Columbus discovering the New World story.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 9, 2013

I have seen the sclerotic pace of decision-making by some co-founders who don’t have a common sense of purpose of the ability to resolve conflict when different opinions result in delayed actions. It’s why I caution people about whom you choose as your co-founder. I believe in “benevolent dictators.”

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2021

What On Deck brings is access to real world knowledge of current practitioners—the ability to hear from real founders and VCs about the deals they’re doing right now, for example. What about the next tier down of school and the next tier down of founder? His knowledge of the e-commerce world was completely out of date.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 19, 2020

It is the story of Ross Ulbricht (aka Dread Pirate Roberts), the founder and owner of The Silk Road. million in commissions, at current Bitcoin exchange rates…”, according to the September 2013 complaint, and involved 146,946 buyers and 3,877 vendors [link]. I highly recommend the book. billion in revenue and $79.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. However, in 2013, Stone and the others shifted their focus to individual startups. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium. million in seed funding (5.1

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Put another way: If founders don’t have to be in Silicon Valley, New York City, or Boston — if they can choose to start and scale in a much broader range of places — where does it make the most sense to put down roots? In 2013, Indianapolis-based ExactTarget was acquired by Salesforce for $2.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 12, 2023

Veronique James, EO Arizona, founder and CEO, The James Agency 2. Brannon Poe, EO Charleston, founder, Poe Group Advisors 3. Liza Roeser Atwood, EO Idaho, founder and CEO, Fifty Flowers 4. But that’s what happened: My daughter was born in April 2013; my first gym opened in June 2013.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 17, 2020

I met the founders and was happy for them. Crypto was helpful for me back in 2013 and 2014 when I was going through one of those periods. It was as fun to play it as it was to play Turntable back in the day. Then I woke up. Investments that don’t work haunt me. It isn’t the losing money part.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

— James Lopez (@imjamesjlopez) June 23, 2013. I''m excited to that my fund, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , is a backer of Ellen, and Makr , along with Lerer Ventures, Betaworks, Collaborative Fund, Founder Collective, Undercurrent, David Tisch at BoxGroup, Taylor Greene, and Nicholas Callaway. Mustang right? just different than mine.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

What every startup founder should know about exits. A TechCrunch story captured the investment perspective, and an SOSV post went deeper into the companies’ category breakdown and founder profiles. But what can founders learn from the list about climate tech investors? Benjamin Joffe is a partner at HAX. Meghan Hind.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. In 2013 we launched many firsts to reinvent our firm. I’m a proponent of this ( provided the associates stay silent during board meetings ) because it gives the VC firm leverage and provides and extra set of eyes & hands to help support the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In 2013 it is expected to be around $35 billion. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 2013 = $25 billion of which Apples stage is more than $8 billion at > 90% gross margin. ” I’ll just leave it to entrepreneurs to decide on their own on this one. I want to challenge the founders view.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. WHEN OUR INDUSTRY CHANGED — THE ERA OF THE UNICORN Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures first coined the term Unicorn in 2013, ironically to signal that very few companies ever achieved a $1 billion valuation.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

For Health2Sync Founder Ed Deng, keeping diabetes patients with other chronic diseases alive is not enough. In 2013, Ed launched Health2Sync in his home country of Taiwan. “Action is data-driven. He wants them to experience the fullest and highest quality lives possible.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 7, 2021

Liza Roeser Atwood, EO Idaho, Founder and CEO, Fifty Flowers. But that’s what happened: My daughter was born in April 2013; my first gym opened in June 2013. Alice Kao, EO Los Angeles, Co-founder and CEO, Sender One Climbing. Anna Redmond, EO Los Angeles, Co-founder and CEO, Hippo Thinks. .” . ?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

After winning the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off , I decided to drop out of business school to pursue my startup full time. The best founder and VC relationships are based on trust and partnership; it should be a relationship that’s nonjudgmental, supportive, and constructive. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster. Consider the case of Tradesy founder Tracy DiNunzio who could only launch her startup by giving up her bedroom for a year and earning $28,000 that allowed her to not have a full time job that year.

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UBI Global

JANUARY 9, 2020

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – UBI Global, an intelligence company and community founded in 2013 and located in Stockholm, Sweden, announced today that Fredrik Grufvisare has been appointed to the role of CEO. Ali Amin, Co-founder and former CEO of UBI Global, will remain with the organization as the Chief Commercial Officer.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Rondell Hamilton is the founder of Rennie’s Orphanage and Animal Rescue (ROAR) in Trinidad, a nonprofit organization managing the rehabilitation, repopulation, and rescue of wild animals. By Jewelle Saunders. Rondell was trying to become a medical missionary when he was diagnosed with brain tumors.

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500

MARCH 25, 2019

My journey with 500 began eight years ago as a startup founder in Batch 3. In 2013, I became an entrepreneur-in-residence and helped run the accelerator batches when 500 expanded to San Francisco. At the time, 500 was a fledgling early stage investor just beginning to establish itself in Silicon Valley. I was excited to join the ride.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In 2013, Dave faced a life-altering medical diagnosis: primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), a rare autoimmune disease that attacked his liver’s bile ducts. Dave is co-founder and chairman of the Global School of Entre p reneurship , which provides education for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The founders are likewise transformed by the many years of struggle and personal growth necessary to build and successfully lead a large business. Gone is the uncertain new startup founder, replaced by someone almost impossibly formidable and experienced. I first met and interviewed the DoorDash founders on Friday, April 26, 2013.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 14, 2019

David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, always focused on making Tumblr a “positive” experience. The news hit yesterday that WordPress has purchased Tumblr from Verizon (which owns it by virtue of its acquisition of Yahoo! I maintained an active Tumblog from before we invested in 2007 until October 2016, when I stopped posting there.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Ben Doherty and Zachary Maurais, former founders of the delivery app Favor, launched Sunroom in May 2018 with the mission of “boosting the profitability” of mid-size property managers and apartment owners by giving them a way to outsource their leasing operations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. I’m not a big fan of governance; I think if you engage as a team member with a founder, you have much more influence than if you’re sitting on a board and voting,” he said.

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