Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2015

Here’s a short video we did of our 2015 Upfront Summit : We also shot this one last year to highlight some of our portfolio companies. If you want the back story about how Rion went about making these videos you can read about it in the link.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). Startup CEO experience (Founded P.S. XO along with my good friend Soleil Moon Frye.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

Scott Belsky (@scottbelsky) April 29, 2015. I went as far as to call it the best Tweet of 2015 so far because it encapsulated my advice so succinctly. I saw this Tweet recently by Scott Belsky, co-founder and CEO of Behance. conviction > consensus. He took two words where I take 1,000!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) November 22, 2015. And at just the right moment when my head was about to explode Twitter came to the rescue. Remember, it’s better to create something and be criticised than to create nothing and criticise others. Or I guess more appropriately Ricky Gervais came to the rescue with his Tweet.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x Every VC who’s been the business for a long time realized first hand that the VC markets were changing rapidly as early as Q3 of 2015. 2015 turned to 2016. Fall turned to winter.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2014

You see, the USV analyst position has always been subject to much competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

That was a question I had been asked by LPs in 2015 when we began our Early Growth program. When we get involved in Seed investments we usually represent 60–80% in one of the first institutional rounds of capital, we almost always take board seats and then we serve these founders over the course of a decade or longer.

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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. In Q3/Q4 2015 the market changed noticeably for VC funds and the market started to realize this by Q1 2016. Now seed funding is conventional wisdom. I Leaderless Rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

For example, we’re now already well into our third growth fund that we started in 2015 (the first returned 2x cash in 3.5 I’ll still work with Kara managing the next few funds, but I’ve already been pushing for our firm to do more to diversify our activities and this will allow me to focus on some of that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2015 I opened up my Facebook page to the public. To this day I mostly just find it a fun escape to post pictures of life and to follow the lives of my friends. It was a break from information overload of Facebook. My friends said, “I don’t need another network. I already have Facebook.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

Anyway, 2015 marks a couple of big career anniversaries for me. It''s my favorite thing to teach as well--and I''ll be giving a class at Startup Institute this Tuesday night about it. They''re a career accelerator, which is a pretty neat concept--doing what YC and Techstars do for startups, but for your career.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 18, 2020

TransWave has come a long way since its formation in 2015. Equality for All Foundation Jamaica Ltd (J-FLAG) provided support to get TransWave Jamaica running and they held their first campaign in 2015. “We I saw the need to provide space not only for myself, but for other young trans leaders to emerge,” says Neish.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

Tuvia Elbaum (@Tuviae) July 14, 2015. Mark Suster (@msuster) July 14, 2015. I sit down to get things done. And I finish. msuster and here’s the shorter version for those who don’t have time https://t.co/HSzvQK63th. HSzvQK63th. Iran deal reached. and the beauty of Twitter is that within 60 seconds I had been corrected.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 19, 2020

By the end of 2015, the movement had over 200 volunteers focused on engaging citizens in the local development processes of their communities. “In When she returned to Peru in 2013, she launched The Millennials Movement and began offering resources on volunteerism.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

You thought media twitter was bad… You thought tech twitter was bad… — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 24, 2015. If markets come back quickly then you’ll see a return to normal 2015 funding timeframes (which I can tell you are much quicker than in times past). My favorite Tweet of the morning came from Hunter Walk.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

I moved back to El Salvador and started working toward my own dream at the end of 2015 with Masshii and started inspiring others to do the same. Since then, I worked independently importing containers from China to Central America and started projects fulfilling other people’s dreams. What is the mission of Masshii? .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

What it did is confirm that our intuition about the slow down of the market in Q415 was real, the situation is likely to get more challenging and many other startups were cutting costs (as many of ours has done in late 2015). We promised that we would clean up the dataset and publish it to all of those who participated.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

Because even in 2015 I still see people riffing on ideas and working on business plans, product flows or coding on projects without first forming a company, signing contracts that assign intellectual property to that company and trusting that “friends” would never sue you. Lawsuits are particularly common amongst co-founders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Between 2010 and 2015, Evernote raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from investors including Sequoia, Meritech Capital and Japanese media company Nikkei. Evernote’s chief operating officer, appointed in June 2015, left after just a few months. This proved to be a winning strategy — at least at first.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

On top of his demanding work of technology repairs, Janeel has made the time to discover new ways to help others as a radio personality and program director at Dominion Radio since 2015 with his program IT Talks.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. Median valuations went up 3x in just 2 years, followed by a precipitous drop in Q4 of 2015. But when you see some of your deals not getting done (as happened in Q4 2015 and is continuing) then when you look at new deals you suddenly get more price sensitive.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

I believe that “new normal” is more or less where we were in 2015 where seed rounds were done around $10mm, A rounds were done around $15mm to $25mm, B rounds were done around $25mm to $50mm, and growth rounds had a cap at 10x revenues.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 25, 2020

In 2015, she was able to merge these two passions together to create her company, Beleaf. By Angie Garozzo. 2018 YLAI Fellow Cinthya Andino is most passionate about design and about protecting the environment.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Everyone is documenting through e-mail screenshots how they invested or didn’t invest in the early days of Uber—showing off their access to the early deal as a badge of honor, but where are the screenshots of the 2014, 2015 e-mails to the team showing their concern about the journalist harassment issues, driver earnings, or privacy concerns?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2015

I don’t know what blogging will bring in 2015 but I hope to go back to the day when I was just blogging for the hell of it. In December we announced our newest fund – Upfront V – had closed. I took that as a moment to have a break and come back refreshed. It feels good to be back.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2019

He didn’t win the global competition that year, but Carlos went on to participate in GSEA in a variety of roles—first as a special guest in the 2013 finals, then as a jury member in the 2015 semi-finals in Thailand and, most recently, as a jury member in the 2017 semifinals in Germany.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Founded in 2015, Freshly is a New York City-based startup that offers healthy meals delivered to your home in weekly orders, which can then be prepared in a few minutes in your microwave or oven. Nestlé USA just announced that it has acquired Freshly for $1.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Although women make up 47% of the US workforce, in 2015, they held only 25% of computing jobs — in a time when tech is booming and has been for decades. A lack of strong female representation creates a vicious circle that maintains the status quo. An employment gap now means an employment gap later.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

The company was founded in 2015, and it went public in 2021 through a SPAC at a $2 billion valuation. Although many VCs seem to be new to quantum technologies, some investors foresaw this movement several years ago and are now making their first quantum exits. Take IonQ, a U.S.-based billion valuation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 21, 2023

In 2015, Bob and Mike came to him seeking to create meaningful change within their company, with a single question on their minds: What could BIGGBY do that would change the world? By 2017, the majority of employees reported significant improvements in how they were treated, a stark contrast from their response in 2015.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19. From time to time, I chart the fastest growing categories of startup investment in the US for seed through Series C.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. @msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. — The Mother of All Exclusivity Agreements – the iPhone Wouldn’t Exist .

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2022

2015 Return Multiple by Round. RM at $1.5b (2015). The silver lining: the median public software company in 2022 is three times as valuable as in 2015, which suggests valuations should settle higher than that era. With at least 20 firms and several partners per firm chasing unicorns, upstarts faced stiff odds.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 23, 2021

By March 2015, I had stopped attending college and had started going to other colleges and industries, asking them to install solar. Arrogance is the highway to Doom Back in 2015, we were working ourselves to the brim. A team of two young men who shared my passion for a sustainable future.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

China doesn’t need any more good platforms,” Tang told his team in an internal email in 2015, “but it does need good products.” Indeed, 2015 was the year when CACs began to exceed or at least rival ARPUs for Alibaba and JD.com. What’s different about Chinese D2C? The China opportunity.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2024

Surprisingly, after 2015, the trend reversed, with remote teams not only catching up but also leading in innovation. It revealed that post-2010, tools like Trello, Zoom, and Slack bridged the gap in remote collaboration, leading to a significant reduction in the innovation deficit previously observed in remote teams.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

When Ample Hills first raised $4 million in 2015, people asked if it was a seed round. Here's what I think everyone involved learned in this process. 1) Find backers who love you for what you are, even if you're a square peg.

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