A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 9, 2021

On Monday, a copy of Startup CXO , my friend Matt Blumberg’s new book, arrived at the USV office. ” That’s when I realized that Startup CXO is not really a book. ” That’s when I realized that Startup CXO is not really a book. I picked it up to take a quick look and thought “this a heavy book!”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

— Sam Altman (@sama) September 26, 2021. — Jordan Cooper (@jordancooper) September 23, 2021. — Jordan Cooper (@jordancooper) September 23, 2021. If you and your startup want to apply, you can do so here. USV TEAM POSTS: Hannah Murdoch — Sep 27, 2021 Fiveable’s Series A.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 21, 2021

So this work to find the right pairing is critical and is a lot of the work that board members do with the founders and their leadership team in startups. Some founders are this rare breed of visionaries who can operate too. Most are not. It has to come from the top. Operational leadership, fortunately, does not.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 1, 2021

I’ve written a bunch about the globalization of the startup economy. But until very recently, raising capital for your startup was significantly easier if it was located in the major startup hubs, most notably Silicon Valley. USV TEAM POSTS: John Buttrick — May 26, 2021 ADDI.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Individuals who had never considered launching a startup began creating businesses out of a combination of necessity and opportunity. That number is expected to go up in 2021. Global Entrepreneurship Week 2021: November 8-14. According to data from the Census Bureau , Americans filed paperwork to start 4.3

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Source Link

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This differs from patterns we’ve seen in previous recessions, where startup job creation remains relatively stable in recessionary years. According to the Microenterprise Collaborative of Inland Southern California’s 2021 Impact Report , over 90% of all businesses in the area are “microbusinesses (less than five employees).

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 22, 2021

But I can also tell you that the state of diversity in startup/growth company boards and our portfolio is still awful. Our portfolio company Bolster connects fractional executives and board candidates to startup and growth companies. You just need to make room for them and ask them to join your board. Just do it.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 5, 2021

The best way to know what managers to pick is to be in the startup business in some way. The Gotham Gal and I have been investing in the VC funds of managers we know well and have worked with closely on boards of startups for about fifteen years now. All you need to do is watch how people behave to know who is good and who is not.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 18, 2021

In early June, I wrote this post explaining that I and we need to do more to reduce the inequality issues for Black people in tech, venture capital, and startups. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Jan 8, 2021 SilviaTerra. I think MLK day is a good time to talk about what has happened since that post.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Oleksandr Yaroshenko is head of investor relations at Headway , an edtech startup based in Ukraine. Let’s look at six reasons to invest in tech startups that hail from Ukraine. The majority of Ukrainian tech startups are still hiring. Startups are integral for creating a new layer of tech firms in Ukraine.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

No matter the focus of your startup, the target audience will almost certainly appreciate anything you can do to show you want to make engaging with your product as straightforward and enjoyable as possible. Most people involved with startups eventually realize that the right partnerships can solidify and strengthen their chances of success.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 10, 2021

Thriving startup leaders also avoid mediocrity. Excerpt from Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur: 10 Mindset Shifts for Women to Take Action, Unleash Creativity, and Achieve Financial Success by Charlene Walters (McGraw Hill, February 2021). If not, I decline politely; you should, too.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. In 2015, the three co-founders launched Kangpe, a telemedicine-focused startup in Nigeria with a “doctor in your pocket” slogan. The six-year-old startup said it has averaged a 3.5x African tech took center stage in 2021.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Early-stage investments are way down in 2023. What you need to do if you want investment. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 28, 2021

Only rich people can invest in startups. The new startup investing is buying into the Ethereum crowdsale. USV TEAM POSTS: Andy Weissman — Jan 26, 2021 USV 2021 Fund. The financial system in the US, and in other developed countries, is a rigged system and has been for a very long time. Not anymore. Not anymore.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In 2021, exports reached $6.9 from a year earlier and brought in more than $6 billion in revenue, more than $542 million the revenue generated in 2021. Ukrainian startups are the horse to bet on The Ukrainian startup ecosystem has developed rapidly in the past few years. Over the last six years, export volume grew by 26.8%

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

In particular, back in February 2021, the company said it managed to generate 250 million downloads. That number has now doubled as the startup has now delivered 500 million installs. But Homa Games is increasing its release pace as 20 games will be released by the end of 2021. So far, the company has released 40 games.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Securing funding for a startup relies heavily on the connections you have among investors, as well as your ability to attract attention to your business. It can be difficult for people of color, women, and working-class backgrounds to find investors for their startups when most of the funding comes from people outside their social circles.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Going back to startup equity, I believe that we will continue to see more and more secondary liquidity for startup equity. Our portfolio company Carta has recently launched a market for exactly that called CartaX and I believe it will be an important source of secondary liquidity for founders, employees, and investors in startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Indonesia-based insurtech startup Fuse announced today it has secured $25 million of Series B extension round as it plans to enter more countries including Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. The startup has closed three funding rounds of Series B within the past six months, bringing the company’s total raised to over $70 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Namibian business-to-business e-commerce startup JABU confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised a $3.2 As a last-mile distribution e-commerce company, JABU joins a list of startups across the continent that help small retailers order and stock their products and, at the same time, provide data-driven services to suppliers and manufacturers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The rocket ship trajectory of a startup is well known: Get an idea, build a team and slap together a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can get in front of users. Startups do not have to scrap the lean business model in favor of a more risk-averse alternative. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Anand Rao is global head of AI at PwC.

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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. ” Founded in 2021, Stockholm-based Chroma last year raised $5.4

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. With that macro view in mind, what would that mean for tech, startups, and web3? Startups are going to have a tough year in 2023.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? There was no money train.

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StartupNation

MARCH 30, 2021

The following is excerpted from the book “Why Startups Fail” by Tom Eisenmann. Copyright © 2021 by Tom Eisenmann. Dear Founder: Congratulations for taking the plunge—for committing to work full-time on that startup concept you’ve been pursuing. I asked them: Do you regret founding your startup?

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Rise of the Rest has always been about backing companies that prove it’s possible to scale a startup in cities outside of Silicon Valley. Not every startup in our portfolio is a tentpole company today, but we believe all of them have the potential to be the tentpoles of tomorrow.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

The city unveiled its plans to support local startups and nurture entrepreneurship with a series of new initiatives under the guidance of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Spanning an expansive 100-hectare area, this center will encompass a range of facilities designed to foster innovation and support startups.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 7, 2023

Register Jakarta-based startup BintanGo , a platform facilitating content creators in monetizing their work, has recently secured $2.2 This infusion of capital takes the total funds raised by the startup to $4.8 Million in Seed Round The post Indonesian Startup BintanGo Raises $2.2M million in funding support.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

If you want to learn more about upcoming events in EO’s “Inspire, Learn, Act” series around sustainability—including our 31 March 2021 EO Impact Day event, complete this interest form. EO members, you can register now to attend the event 31 March 2021. Get ready to gain new tools to bring back to your business, family and community.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Taeillo , a Lagos-based startup innovating around these issues relating to time, quality and cost via its online furniture e-commerce store, has raised $2.5 In 2021, Taeillo raised a $150,000 bridge round from CcHUB Syndicate as it tripled its revenue from the previous year. But that growth and progress didn’t come without headaches.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

And while this May’s economic backdrop was markedly different from last’s , enthusiasm was high and outlooks remained positive for the startup momentum building between the coasts. We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 1, 2023

The startup aims to help more people achieve their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) sustainability goals through its Yellow Boxes and online platform. In 2021, HOMA2U secured a series of funding amounting to RM2.4

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Register The South Korea Ministry of SMEs and Startups, in collaboration with the Korea Startup Forum, is set to host the highly anticipated “COMEUP 2023,” set to take place from November 8 to 10 at the renowned Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul.

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