How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 24, 2014
” So it’s now March 2014 – 5 years since I started investing. Here is the first 3 months of 2014 … . How is my scorecard looking?
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The Freedom To Innovate
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MAY 23, 2023
Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over our web3 investing activities. We hired a law firm, answered the subpoena, and that ultimately landed me in public testimony in front of the DFS staff.
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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.
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Cash on Cash vs IRR
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JULY 27, 2021
And our second Opportunity Fund, raised in 2014, has generated 7.3x Our 2014 Opportunity Fund has a higher cash on cash return but a lower IRR than our 2010 Opportunity Fund. Our 2008 vintage early-stage fund has generated about 5x cash on cash but only generated a 22.5% cash on cash but generated a 58.6% cash on cash but only 46.7%
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Press Ganey Acquires NarrativeDx To Expand AI-Driven Consumer Insights
Dream It
MARCH 20, 2020
NarrativeDX ( Healthtech - Fall 2014 ) is the latest win for the Dreamit portfolio. Today, the company announced that it is being acquired by health care performance improvement pioneer Press Ganey. Kyle Robertson, Founder and CEO of NarrativeDx. This comes on the heels of NarrativeDX’s recent funding round just one year ago last February.
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The Thin Skin of the Venture Capital Market
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 3, 2014
— Charlie O''Donnell (@ceonyc) November 1, 2014. Love Slack, but $120mm and a $1B valuation at this point will almost certainly lead to lack of focus and less than optimal decision making. And then I promptly got Twitter flack from one of the people who works at one of the company''s investors. What was said, who''s right, etc.,
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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014. With seed up massively between 2006–2014 and A and B rounds relatively flat what you see is a widening of the funnel going into traditional venture. So What Impact Did the Drop in Tech Founding Costs Have on VC?
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What am I Thankful for This Year?
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 28, 2013
You’ve had a few difficult years outside of work – I feel confident 2014 is going to be a great one! I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014. I feel confident in our 2014 plans. Thank you especially to Jason & Eric.
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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. It doesn’t take a huge leap to see how well the VC industry is positioned for the immediate future. But about that “bubble” we always hear about?
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Creating a forever home for this Trinidadian community and the endangered animals within it
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Sadly, in 2014, when I relapsed for the second time since my initial surgery, the board of directors made the decision to terminate my tenure at ESTREC. Since its inception in 2014, ROAR has morphed into a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation organization, together with sanctuary services for nonreleasable animals.
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Net Health Acquires Tissue Analytics
Dream It
MAY 14, 2020
The Baltimore-based startup graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2014. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland, with a satellite office in Kansas City, Missouri. Tissue Analytics, Inc. Tissue Analytics, Inc. Learn more about Dreamit Healthtech.
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The Uber that Never Was
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 13, 2019
So, the extent to which any one fund will call out the other funds on the cap table that sat quietly on the sidelines for three years after Sarah Lacy called the company out in 2014 is going to be somewhat limited.
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Steve Case Testifies on Expanding Access to Capital Across America
Revolution
MARCH 26, 2025
When our team first visited its startup community in 2014, the city had just declared bankruptcy, and people were not betting on an innovation-driven future. Take Detroit, for example. It was the Silicon Valley of its day, churning out the countrys most transformative technology: the automobile.
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GRP Excited to add Sam Rosen to Its Ranks. How Did He Get the Role? Hustle. Here’s the Story.
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. It made me realize that we’ve never properly introduced our associates: Graham Gelwicks. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. So what is an EIR and why Sam?
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372 What Future for Accelerators?
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2014
But by 2014 much had started to change. We have witnessed one hell of a startup boom from 2009-2014 which has coincided with the boom in accelerators. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. Between the group of us we were probably helping launch 75-100 companies / year.
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290 What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0
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Investments That Don’t Work
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
AUGUST 17, 2020
Crypto was helpful for me back in 2013 and 2014 when I was going through one of those periods. And the more the investment is of yourself, your time, your enthusiasm, the worse it is. I’ve gotten out of these periods of burnout by turning my attention to something else.
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The Revenge Of Retail
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JANUARY 28, 2021
Had you done that in the summer of 2014, you would be looking at roughly 1,000 times your money right now. Whether it is crypto (Coinbase) or day trading (Robinhood), the retail investor now has the tools to get into the game and win the game. The new startup investing is buying into the Ethereum crowdsale.
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How an ex-cop turned entrepreneur gives back by combatting human trafficking
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JANUARY 19, 2022
In 2014, I started working a cocaine trafficking case, which eventually led to the largest cocaine haul and most complex wiretap case in Nashville history. (I Five years of hard work later, I landed my dream job on the 20th Judicial District Drug Task Force.
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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 8, 2014
Our theme for 2014 is “teach a firm to fish” where we build more scalable support for portfolio companies. We reinvented our annual meeting and now use the occasion to throw an LA Tech & Investment conference with hundreds of the best tech you’ll see in LA. And did I mention RELAUNCH A NEW WEBSITE !
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365 Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions
Dream It
JULY 31, 2019
In mid-2014, Caya started Slidebean. The company then evolved into Saborstudio, a digital marketing consulting agency. In November 2012 Caya was selected as one of 40-Under-40 Costa Rican innovators, and he was a featured speaker on the 2013 TEDx PuraVida Conference.
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One woman’s path to financial empowerment leads the way
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
MARCH 31, 2020
I put my ambitions of becoming an entrepreneur on pause for a couple of years until finally walking away from the corporate world in March 2014. I had no guidance at the time, so I didn’t know my ideas weren’t feasible and it was a very expensive lesson learned.
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On Launching a Brand – Upfront Ventures Four Months In
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 11, 2013
What’s mostly been keeping her busy in the last few months is onboarding our new CFO – Audrey Lee – and handling the 10-month buildout of our new Santa Monica offices, which are expected to come online in Feb or March of 2014. We have also hired Kyle Taylor to run platform services as his full-time job.
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324 The Case For EVs
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JUNE 27, 2022
The Gotham Gal and I own five EVs and have been driving electric-powered cars since 2014. I don’t drive gas-powered cars and haven’t for a few years now. We have purchased two Chevy Bolts, two Tesla Model Ss, and one Rivian truck.
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Freelancer or entrepreneur? Making the mindset shift
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 28, 2021
When I moved to Washington State in 2014, I initially registered my business as Julia L F Goldstein Communications. Maybe your business name is just your name and perhaps your credentials—Nancy Smith, CPA. Or perhaps you created a fictitious company name when you registered your business. If you didn’t, should you do so?
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Meet the man empowering young leaders by starting with their computer repairs
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Before starting his own company, Boon’s Computer Repairs , in 2014 in St. Driven by a desire to help people from a young age, YLAI 2018 Fellow Janeel Boon aims to empower others to see their leadership ability within themselves. Kitts and Nevis, Janeel came from humble beginnings.
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Oculus Quest
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JULY 2, 2019
Facebook paid $2bn (or possibly more) for Oculus in the spring of 2014 and maybe a couple million Oculus headsets have been sold since then. If there is a technology that has overpromised and underdelivered more than AR/VR over the last five years, I am not sure what it is. So when is all of this investment going to pay off?
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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 6, 2015
. “There was no real framework for a $15 million fund at the time so I had to make one up … it was really sort of an experiment … I invested across Funds I & II in 90 companies” Jeff then raised $55 million in 2010 and $85 million in 2014.
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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 16, 2014
We also promoted Jordan Hudson to principal in 2014 and have encouraged him to begin looking at deals. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . Whereas we had four partners investing Fund IV we now have six partners actively looking at deals for Fund V.
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396 Some Perspective on Twitter vs. Meerkat
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 14, 2015
Mark Suster (@msuster) November 7, 2014. And Twitter made that easy, so thank you). I have a couple posts queued up for next week – get them in your inbox https://t.co/YnJM8aeru9. YnJM8aeru9. So as a business I wouldn’t say Twitter needs to allow third-parties to port social graphs.
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HPA Announces Acquisition of Portfolio Company Simple Mills by Flower Foods, Inc.
HPA
JANUARY 8, 2025
HPA led the first round of institutional capital in 2014, providing subsequent capital and strategic support to help drive growth and innovation. Founded in 2012 by Katlin Smith, Simple Mills is a market-leading natural foods brand offering premium better-for-you crackers, cookies, snack bars, and baking mixes.
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How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MARCH 17, 2021
million in DeepMind, and recouped over 80 times that amount when Google bought the company in 2014. It was enough to secure a formal meeting with Thiel, who went on to invest US$1.85 The post How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’ appeared first on THE BLOG.
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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. The doubters will question you. The trolls will swipe at you. Competitors will undermine you. These are the signs of innovation.
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Pomp and Reality: Real advice for today’s graduates
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JUNE 14, 2022
Shonda Rhimes, Dartmouth, 2014. The award-winning producer focused her 2014 speech on the reality of her experience as an exceptionally busy working mom and the importance of doing, not dreaming. I have learned this the hard way, as I predict you graduates will, too.”. Watch | Transcript.
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A Great Discussion with @skupor @davemcclure @msuster on Changes in the VC Industry
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 27, 2014
But here is the deck I used to present before our panel if you haven’t seen it already: Final 2014 pre money deck from Mark Suster. And we ended. Startup Lessons'
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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2014
I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now.
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The Virtue Of Patience
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
AUGUST 22, 2019
Back in May 2014, Duolingo launched something called the Duolingo Test Center. Our portfolio company Duolingo is known for their super popular language learning app. According to Wikipedia over 300mm people all over the world have used Duolingo. The idea was to compete with expensive and inconvenient foreign language tests like TOEFL.
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Innovation Through Crisis
Entrepreneurs' Organization
APRIL 29, 2020
Ruchir Punjabi has been an EO member since 2014. If you already have stability, then this is an amazing opportunity to transform what you do, and thrive for what is certainly going to be a changed world after this crisis. For more tips on surviving the global crisis, visit the #EOTogether platform.
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The Startup M&A Market Fell 94% Year over Year - But One Segment is Thriving
Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 4, 2023
This change in the exit market parallels a surge in acquihires in 2014 when corporate development departments began to acquire seed-stage companies for talent rather than waiting for Series A businesses. During the 2013-2014, median acquisition prices increased by 50% in less than a year, from $36m to $54m.
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129 WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake
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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175 Get Paid In Crypto
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
I wrote about this back in 2014 when I was buying 1.5 This is just a first step in a broader set of payroll products for employers and DAOs. I’ve always been a fan of “averaging into crypto” instead of trying to time the market. Bitcoin every week. That was back when you could buy a bitcoin for several hundred dollars.
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How to Project Cash Flow to Forecast the Impact of COVID-19
Entrepreneurs' Organization
APRIL 20, 2020
In 2014, Greg contributed a chapter to Verne Harnish’s book, Scaling Up on how to improve profits though labor efficiency. Greg is currently the organization’s partner-in-charge of their Huntsville, Alabama office. In 2020, Greg will release his newest book, Simple Numbers 2.0: Rules for Smart Scaling.
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A $30B Software Company from a $15m Investment
Tomasz Tunguz
DECEMBER 26, 2022
From 2003 to 2014, Constellation’s revenues compounded from $80m to more than $5b, an average of 25% annually. In 2014, Constellation grew revenues 40%, which today would place the company in the top quartile. But Constellation arrives at that growth in a very different way : they acquire to grow.
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Japan’s Geniee acquires AdPushup-operator Zelto for $70 million
TechCrunch
MARCH 3, 2023
In 2014, the startup almost ran out of cash. And when we almost ran out of cash in 2014, we were forced to become frugal and profitable.” Later, it scrambled with its product offerings after its marquee service struggled to make inroads, Zelto founder and chief executive Ankit Oberoi told TechCrunch in an interview.
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