Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

2013 has proved to be a wild year. 2013 was the year of wearable devices and physical products. So with the wild ride of 2013 I had thoughts about what made me thankful this year. I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014. Startup Advice' eCommerce was battered this year. Best, Mark.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” Most prefer not to say this publicly for two reasons: 1) they have an entire portfolio of startups, many of whom are raising capital and 2) they prefer not to be attacked publicly or seem “anti entrepreneur.” goes into a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I think that’s one of the reasons that many of the most interesting bay area startups are choosing to locate themselves in the city. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. He pinged me that he was thinking about joining a startup based in LA with the CEO in NYC and would I be willing to meet him and give him advice on this process. Jordan Hudson.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For startups, a good Board is better than no Board, but a bad Board is worse than anything. But sometimes the CEO takes the initiative to recruit an absolute gem and that was the case with ResQ , a software startup servicing the hospitality owners and service/repair vendors. I got a text from Apoorva asking if we could reconnect.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Startups Are for Doers. But trust me when I say that my observations across many startups (and other companies, frankly) is that not enough time goes into thinking. Startups are filled with the stresses of the here and now and it’s hard to break out of this mold of focusing two feet in front of you. Board Meetings.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Heidi Zak launched ThirdLove with Ra’el Cohen in 2013 with the (revolutionary) core belief: Every woman deserves to be comfortable and confident. In her interview on Wonder, she talks about racism in all of its forms, her experience as a black female founder and how she’s using her position to make a difference. Listen here.

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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. The post Welcoming New Partner and Global Digital Transformation Expert Flavio Dias as We Step Up Our Presence in Brazil appeared first on 500 Startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

When convertible debt first started being introduced as a “faster, cheaper way to get startups funded” they didn’t have pricing built into them. In fact, most early investor work hard to help their startups get to the next level so it makes no sense for the angel investor and founders to be at odds.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

a really wide angle view of the tech industry since you see so many concepts / so many pitches and REAL data points on how startups perform financially. a top-down view on HR challenges at startups; and, obviously: a great network. In 2013 we launched many firsts to reinvent our firm. Startup Advice'

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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. Putting together a little dinner of folks Sun night. Would love to meet a Bklyn maker/Resistor. We agreed to meet up and she told me what she was working on. I just wanted to meet the hardware hackers from Brooklyn.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster. Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies? 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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

My kids are growing up in Los Angeles in 2013. Startup Advice' We actually didn’t plan to – she sort of adopted us and we her. She is Filipina and my younger son grew up with Tagalog words and Chicken Adobo as his favorite dish. And as it happens foreign-born Americans can be some of our most patriotic citizens as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 9, 2013

This is especially true in startups where speed matters and where there is a need to constantly calibrate direction and where these decisions can have existential outcomes. It’s 2013 and I’m supposed to believe in the “wisdom of the crowds.” She far too opinionated. Tempestuous.” ” F**k ‘em.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

If all you ever do is create YouTube content then I agree – that’s not a viable startup business. This kind of spend happens all day long inside startup companies and 100% of the spend on attracting customers is a cost. Startup Lessons' ” I’ve given some specific advice on how to do this before.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 17, 2020

It happens regularly in the startup world. Crypto was helpful for me back in 2013 and 2014 when I was going through one of those periods. And investments that don’t work are often failures of execution. So it makes sense that someone could come along and make your idea work after you failed with it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Shouldn’t all your storage be inventoried with photos in 2013? Startup Advice' Or was it in that fracking storage facility off of the 52 freeway? She drove out and looked for it. What a hassle. Turns out it wasn’t even at the storage facility. Shouldn’t you be able to scroll through your storage facility online?

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts. In 2013, Indianapolis-based ExactTarget was acquired by Salesforce for $2.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Cryptocurrency pioneer and early Bitcoin thought-leader Diana Biggs has joined Swiss-based startup Valour , which lets investors easily buy digital assets through their bank or broker. The move is significant with the news that Tesla has bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin, thus massively boosting the mainstream markets for crypto assets.

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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. The post To Infinity and Beyond: 500’s Next Chapter appeared first on 500 Startups.

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StartupNation

MAY 19, 2021

We’re so happy that more startups than ever are founded on a mission of sustainability. If you’re looking for a great job at a Midwest sustainability startup, you have so many choices. Here are a few of the awesome sustainability startups from Ann Arbor to Columbus. Seven great sustainability startups in the Midwest.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

One of Dovetail’s goals is prepare startups to seek funding from other VCs; firms that have invested in Dovetail’s portfolio companies include Blackbird, Qantas and Wavemaker. As buy now, pay later startups keep raising capital, a dive into Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm’s earnings. “By We’re looking for ideas.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Since launching in 2013, South African fintech Yoco has positioned itself as the go-to platform to access offline payments among merchants in the country. Yoco is currently one of the most valuable startups on the continent, and as a fintech startup, it comes as no surprise.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Last fall, delivery startup goPuff made a big splash by raising $380 million in funding and acquiring West Coast beverage retailer BevMo shortly afterwards. Rafael Ilishayev and Yakir Gola, who serve as co-CEOs, founded the company in 2013 while they were students at Drexel University. Delivery startup goPuff raises $380M at a $3.9B

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 1, 2014

So, if you''re going to argue that the process of venture capital is inherently unfair to women, here''s the logic that you *should not* use: "Less than 3 percent of the 6,793 companies that received venture capital from 2011-2013 were headed by a woman, according to a study from Babson College released Tuesday. Sounds awful, right?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

He even ran the idea for the company by Houston prior to launching in 2013, who gave it his seal of approval, and the two companies have been partners for some time. Those workflows include creative, sales, client services or startups using DocSend to deliver proposals or pitch decks and track engagement.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. In 2014, Mr. Eazi launched Phonetrader, an online used phone marketplace backed by a now-defunct startup incubator, 440NG, which was run by two investment firms, L5Lab and 88mph.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. I know it should go without saying that in 2013 you should be thinking about building a global business.

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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 media world now has its own leader running the largest YouTube multi-channel network startup. Distribution costs have, too. This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2023

The US startup M&A market in Q4 2022 was one of the quietest in the last 20 years. During a down-market, young startups who face a radically more challenging fundraising market than six months ago more often choose a quick sale. During the 2013-2014, median acquisition prices increased by 50% in less than a year, from $36m to $54m.

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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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ascend Money , the Thailand-based fintech startup behind TrueMoney, an e-wallet service, announced today it has raised a $150 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.5 Ascend Money provides a financial platform of opportunity for those financially excluded as well as SMEs around the region.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Back in August during Y Combinator’s two-day demo extravaganza , TechCrunch noted a number of startups from India that stood out from the batch. Seeing so many India-focused startups in the mix wasn’t a fluke. After a somewhat average start to the year, Indian startups saw their venture capital investment fall to just $1.5

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Meeting startups at the very start of their journey is one of my favorite parts about working at YC. By the time a company is successful enough to IPO, the many doubts and uncertainties of the early stage startup are largely forgotten, replaced with a hindsight that makes their path to success seem so much more obvious and predictable.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. They always ask whether I see this as threatening as Upfront Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. So can you successfully build a YouTube network? ” YouTube takes 45%.

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