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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Marc Andreessen kicked off another great debate on Twitter last night, one that I’ve been talking about incessantly in private circles for the past 2-3 years – what actually IS the definition of a seed vs. A-round. My view: “Spending any time or energy trying to game the ‘definition’ of your round of fund raising is a total waste.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Does the VC think that a designer needs to be on the team from day one if you’re going to build a better version of Instagram? Does the VC think that a machine learning engineer needs to be there to build a real version of Tony Stark’s Jarvis? Let’s first talk about the definition of a co-founder. That’s fair.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2015

*. What is the role of a VC for entrepreneurs? I suppose it can be different for every founder and for different VCs but I’d like to offer you some context on what I think it is and it isn’t. They are unique to you and not to each other situation that VC has faced. ” I responded. Your decisions are unknowable.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Since then, I’ve founded several startups, was employee #3 at a $65m VC firm in San Francisco, and realized that there is a similar phenomenon to what Robert Kiyosaki is talking about in Rich Dad, Poor Dad currently occurring in Silicon Valley. Wealth My definition of rich is having a passive income that’s greater than your burn.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2022

Signaling risk happens when a VC chooses to not do pro rata, or follow-on investing, in an existing portfolio company. The earliest investors are rethinking signaling risk, dilution and, most surprisingly, the worth of a traditional demo day. Let’s start with a juicy topic: pro rata.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For us as a company, this means not cutting back where it might impact growth, but definitely being conservative and foregoing costly opportunities or hiring roles that won’t yield the highest impact or returns in the first two quarters or more of 2023,” she said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 28, 2022

VC firm Baukunst led the Five Flute investment, and I sat down with Axel Bichara and Tyler Mincey to learn how they evaluate a potential early-stage deal. In VC, we are looking for the outliers.” If you get those two right, everything else will fall into place, almost by definition.” That’s not helpful.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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. However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time.

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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. I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal.

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JULY 8, 2013

I usually direct people to this post --still hanging atop the search rankings for " How to be a VC analyst" years later. In VC, no one''s investment gets bought on the first day, or the second day, or the third day. Well, let me be the first to tell you. 5) It takes a long time to be successful. And most of all, I love people.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I can definitely say the U.S. Despite myriad flaws, US remains top spot for Black startup founders seeking VC dollars by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch. He said he still looks to the U.S. for venture funds for his startup because there are more success stories of Black founders in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

By definition, once the business has become predictable, the company is in the growth or expansion stage. The VC also won’t take a majority of the startup in most cases, because a control position means the entrepreneur is “working for” the investors. According to PitchBook, the average VC fund has 18.4

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MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” For funds with an overall return of 3-5x, which is what VC funds aim for, the overall return was 4.6x

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. If the large VC doesn’t agree to do your A round then you’re in a bit of trouble. But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

500 Global’s Christine Tsai shares her 2022 VC predictions. 500 Global’s Christine Tsai shares her 2022 VC predictions. Will quantum computing remain the domain of the specialist VC? Will quantum computing remain the domain of the specialist VC? If you want startup funding, don’t make VCs feel ignorant.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Dan asked Fred about “generational change” at USV and in the VC industry more broadly. Greg joined a bit earlier so has had more time to start to shape our investment philosophies and the strong opinions, well-through-through positions have been a breath of fresh air and definitely started to make changes in our thinking.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Over the last several years, VC money has been abundant and relatively cheap. Definitely not. The rules of VC are changing: Here’s what founders should be considering in the new era by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch. More posts by this contributor. Let’s compare the two time periods.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I recently got an email from a friend who had been approached by a well known VC. I’m an investor at [Big Name, Large Fund VC] and recently came across [Your Company]. But if that’s all that they’re after then entrepreneurs should definitely be wary of taking these calls.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The good news is that the wealth is being spread around at least a couple of VC firms, although there are definitely a handful of partners who are looking at a very, very nice check in the mail compared to others. Levchin has more shares all together than any of his individual VC investors — 27.5 So let’s dive in.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

While the format definitely works, the influx of pitch decks in a hot deal environment makes it harder to stand out. Don’t send VC a cold deck ever again: Start sending video pitches. 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck. And so, it’s just up to the founders to really just tell the story to us.

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APRIL 3, 2010

Because it is a “series&# I plan to get into some of the deeper complexities of funds such as “cross over funds&# and “why VC’s hate to price their own deals&# at a later stage. First, if the VC does 15-20 of these under one partner then it is certain he can’t spend any time with these investments.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

If you want a very quick primer on all the stuff nobody ever tells you about raising venture capital check out this video where Mark Jeffrey & I break it down on This Week in VC. All of this is covered in more detail on the TWiVC video above (and much of it is covered in text on this blog on the “ Raising VC &# tab).

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Nancy Lublin, CEO of Loris.ai, is definitely a founder to watch. While I have yet to find a company that truly addresses this theme, you can imagine a world in which each individual is able to control all of their personal data and only reveal what they want to who they want. Who is one of your founders you think we should watch?

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JULY 16, 2010

Lots of discussion these days about the changes in the VC industry. The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The rules of VC are changing: Here’s what founders should be considering in the new era. Definitely don’t chase trends,” advises Liparteliani. TechCrunch+ roundup: New VC rules, AI biotech investor survey, Instagram ad case study by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+. to 17 cents.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

How about as a VC? Fred has basically always been a VC, Mike was a reporter, and Jim worked in product marketing and management consulting. Surely--but then I realize how difficult it is to be an early stage VC in NYC. Really never managed anything of significant or built anything major.". what has this guy done? What did I do?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

But Levine saw the kernel of something with huge potential, and despite being a relative unknown in VC at the time, didn’t want to let the opportunity pass him, or Wang, by. The Product Hunt spot wasn’t planned, either — Wang was as surprised to see his company there as anyone else.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, Hambrecht spoke about Haus’s transition from buzzy VC-backed startup to a business currently up for sale, as-is or in parts. Because the company was unable to fundraise from traditional VC, it took on debt financing and began looking for private equity and strategic partners.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

Three companies most definitely makes a pattern. Linden's a cool dude and being the interchange between the internet of things, our social services, etc. is a long bet--I'm glad he'll have the time to do something interesting here.

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MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

What this tech definitely does is that it expands the size of the creator market. As it is, I’m a paid Canva user and you definitely wouldn’t have counted me in that target demo as narrowly defined by Adobe’s core audience ten years ago. That being said, I’d hate to be a stock photography model these days.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It definitely impacted where I am now in the sense that this was an inflection point,” said Kramer, who is one of many former Carta employees embroiled in legal battles with the company. This duo started a VC firm to scale what ‘founders are starving for’ by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

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APRIL 3, 2012

Age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc are all topics that are deeply emotional for people--and, by definition, personal. Of course, you don't always need that experience from a VC. If you make a comment about age, it will always be taken in the context of how old you are versus how old your audience is.

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JUNE 22, 2021

and even though by definition that means the majority of our dollars are invested outside the area, that still makes us meaningfully different from the ten other Sand Hill Road funds this LP might be speaking with. We’re definitely not a “regional investor” but we do have some comparative advantage in a good portion of our deals.

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JULY 13, 2023

Being a VC means not only honing your skills as a judge of character, assessor of business models, and calculator of risk, but it’s also a lot of difficult interpersonal communications, narrative creation, and long-term goal setting and positioning. Also, maybe you don’t have the same definition of VC success.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

What is your definition of a big idea and how do you know when you see it? VC Ann Miura-Ko is looking to help more students answer the question: Is this idea big enough? The aim is to help them identify big ideas. I’ve come to realize that there are two types of businesses that can actually become really big.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Even after the unprecedented year that we had in 2020, the VC markets picked up in 2021 and founders raised 157% more capital in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the previous year. Global VCs have invested $268.7 De Santis Breindel asked CEOs what was the top evaluation criteria when choosing a VC firm.

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