This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 11, 2022
A few years ago, I was at Techcrunch Disrupt and this guy taps me on the shoulder as I was chatting in a group. However, it’s actually worse than an e-mail—especially post-pandemic when the VC is probably still just happy to be out and about with actual humans and you’re raining on the human parade with memorized pitching.
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APRIL 27, 2014
The ones above are the ones I’ve prioritized this year (other than Disrupt – I never seem to get invited to that one). 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. And we live in public so many people are able just to reach out. Oh, the conferences.
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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.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 5, 2012
He saw that I was talking to other people at Techcrunch Disrupt to he quickly slips his card in and says "I just wanted you to match a name to a face. He realized that rushed in person pitches don't do your company justice at all--especially when VCs are running to another meeting or trying to mingle and meet as many people as possible.
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MAY 23, 2012
I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. To really assess what opportunities the VC industry has over the next decade, one needs to first look at some of the root causes of poor returns in the past decade. THAT is disruption. The Funding Problem. The Exit Problem.
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MARCH 3, 2013
Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. We spoke about the disruption of VC through crowd funding. If you have some time I highly recommend watching it. Venture Capital.
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 6, 2015
I''m probably biased against just out of school hackers who think that just because they built a thing, they''re going to disrupt an industry they don''t care about understanding. You''ve been in VC long enough to see lots of different funds, partners and deals. We all have biases--and not all bias is bad. Am I wrong to have that?
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