This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2016

Just don't go picking someone who really doesn't compliment you just because it's some kind of VC rule. I've heard a lot of VCs tell founders they need co-founders--and that they wouldn't look at a business at a very early stage without a co-founder. The same holds true for VC funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. Let’s be clear: AngelList doesn’t scare a single VC I know. But it’s not cutting VCs out. It is additive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

I guess this is the ultimate definition of implementing a business model when you’re not clear on strategy! If it’s the former your company will definitely start to top out at some point. I sometimes see VCs debate ad finitum about a company’s strategy. My take on his argument is this: 1. Markets decide.

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Dream It

AUGUST 29, 2019

The definition of Exit Strategy from Investopedia: “The method by which a venture capitalist or business owner intends to get out of an investment that he or she has made in the past. But it’s also not smart to go into a meeting having just achieved product-market fit and tell an investor that you plan to IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Elect 1-2 representatives and even invite a local VC to invest personally and sit on the investment committee or be an advisor.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to spend time getting to know their future VCs early because getting a feel for your chemistry is far more important than how the VC is ranked in some survey. Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 11, 2021

These are all important and disruptive changes to the startup, tech, and business sectors. We definitely have not figured this all out, but we are starting to see some patterns and some benefits of both work modes, and we are trying to navigate to a good middle ground. And investors in NYC can access investments in Singapore with ease.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Tess Hatch, vice president and partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, will join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 as a judge for our Startup Battlefield competition. Tess was also recently named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 in VC. By the way startups, you can still apply now until May 27 to take part in the competition here !

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

64% of VC firms still don’t have a single female partner. Black + Latinx female founders receive only 0.64% of VC funding, a slight uptick from the year prior. Those are probably the people that are more naturally intuitive investments, so it definitely does skew that direction.”. Around TechCrunch. Across the week.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With other outlets like media publications WeeTracker and Disrupt Africa disclosing different results for the African venture capital market, we compared and contrasted their results last year. billion while Disrupt Africa, $496 million for the same year. Briter Bridges pegged total 2020 VC for African startups at $1.31

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Welcome to day three of TechCrunch Disrupt , where the opportunities to learn, connect and grow your business just don’t stop. Remember, you’ll find all the day’s programs, stage location and times listed in the Disrupt agenda and in the event app. State of VC in 2022. Disrupt Stage | 10:00 am. Disrupt Stage | 10:30 am.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

As a VC it’s how I think through which markets will be attractive in the future, which ones I want to be in now and how the technology & business world will likely evolve. I put my definitions on them because I didn’t want my thinking to be constrained by industry-defined boundaries or definitions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

In the rest of this newsletter, we’re going to talk about the do-it-all startups and Sarah Guo’s new VC fund. TechCrunch Disrupt is next week, somehow. Safe travels to those of you traveling into town, and apologies to those of us who are already based in San Francisco and now definitely won’t be able to get a table at Che Fico.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

But when it comes to learning all the complex ins and outs of building and launching a successful startup, more is definitely the way to go. You’ll tune in live to watch 10 global early-stage companies pitch to a panel of top VCs. Spoiler alert: think like a VC. We’ve all heard the adage, less is more.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?—?they they are definitely at a disadvantage.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

“Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months. For starters: he’s never had an opportunity to pitch at a VC firm where there was another Black person in the room.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

Companies want to build for the pain point you never dreamed to disrupt; VCs want to invest in an emerging trend before it becomes a household name; and those breaking into tech are told to lean into their earnestness, because you never know who is going to answer your cold email. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. And my family are a definitely a “MakeSpace family” regularly donning MakeSpace t-shirts at school and at home and cheering every time we see a MakeSpace truck driving down an LA freeway. As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Orbit Fab CDO Jeremy Schiel shows off the company’s satellite coupling system on stage at TC Disrupt 2019. The add-on investment comes from Munich Re Ventures (the corporate VC arm of Munich Re Group, one of the largest insurance companies in the world).

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

By definition, placement agents only introduce a fund to new relationships. . Many VC LPs are investing not just for returns, but because they want to learn more about the space, get access to co-investment opportunities, network with disrupters, etc. Emerging managers are not a commodity, especially in VC.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Tomorrow’s episode of Extra Crunch Live will feature guests VC Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and Rachel Carlson, CEO and co-founder of Guild Education. Inflation may or may not prove transitory when it comes to consumer prices, but startup valuations are definitely rising — and noticeably so — in recent quarters.”. Since then, Z?m

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Also participating is LAUNCH (the fund led by investor Jason Calacanis), Sweet Capital (via Pippa Lamb), Rogue VC (via Alice Lloyd George) and Angel investors Simon Beckerman (co-founder of Depop), Eric Wahlforss (co-founder of SoundCloud and now Dance), Abe Burns and Joe White. Reuben definitely seems like one of those founders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

In 2019, Membere-Otaji finally launched the company with CTO Tobi Amusan after securing a $100,000 pre-seed investment from Oui Capital , a pan-African VC firm. “We couldn’t see ourselves doing vessel chartering for the long term because the demand for fossil fuels will definitely reduce over the next few decades.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Others in this round include SEI investments Outward VC and others. Note: this is not the same Bud as the Singaporean metaverse startup that recently also raised funding.). PitchBook notes that earlier investments, pre-this round, gave the company a modest valuation of less than $58 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Zoe Jervier Hewitt is a leadership coach and talent partner at multi-stage VC fund EQT Ventures , where she helps portfolio companies structure and accelerate their search for talent by facilitating connections to the right technology and people required to source candidates at each stage of company growth. Zoe Jervier Hewitt. Contributor.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 5, 2023

and was co-led by Ironspring Ventures and Chicago Ventures, with continued participation from FUSE VC and Cercano Management. GoodShip’s definitive, shared source of truth unifies and contextualizes shippers’ disparate data sources, streamlining business check-ins for shippers and carrier partners.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. The salads were delicious, but the prices definitely made me appreciate our free lunch policy. ” Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. Originality definitely helps an entrepreneur break apart from the crowd, said Karim.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

There has been some criticism that the definition of a startup is too narrow…. TechCrunch: On the investor side, the response has been positive but there too there are calls for the government to go even further — even though 2021 was a record year for VC investment in Spain. Why did you draw the lines there?

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Jason Malki

MARCH 22, 2022

It’s remarkable to consider that with all the advances in the industry, there really are no definitive industry standards when it comes to sponsorship. With such scope and depth of sports assets, how can the brand even attempt to know which will be the optimal choice? Needless to say, the costs and conflicts of interest have been vast.

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

Social networks were not much of a thing, email was about work, telco’s charged for texting and we had feature phones which were definitely not computers. I found that I didn’t need an escape from work — work is an escape I love — but I needed a break from meetings, interactions, and events that would disrupt my flow state.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

By definition, placement agents only introduce a fund to new relationships. . Many VC LPs are investing not just for returns, but because they want to learn more about the space, get access to co-investment opportunities, network with disrupters, etc. Emerging managers are not a commodity, especially in VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. By definition?—?I’m I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

We recommend getting to know partners at VC firms on your list at least 6 to 9 months before your fundraise. The CEO used this as an opportunity to have 1:1 conversations with other board members, gather feedback, and directly approach the board member who was being disruptive. And the only way you build trust is with time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

There is definitely plenty of capital out there, but there are also a lot of startups clamoring for it. There are so many incredible businesses that can be built that actually don’t need VC funding.” Founders seeking to raise their first round of capital may feel overwhelmed by the prospect.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Hot damn, it’s happening: A bunch of the TechCrunch team are on airplanes, aeroplanes and other spellings of flying vessels to come join us in San Francisco for Disrupt. Lauren S made us a user’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt along with a guide to all the receptions, parties and other cool extracurriculars. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Each has their own pros and cons and includes everything from rolling funds to the real definition of partner. We also covered more on the value of certain on ramps, and if network is the right thing to disrupt (or if its more track record based). VC fundraising gets weird as autumn nears.

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