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MARCH 14, 2013

I am a VC. But through expressing points-of-view I can raise above the consciousness of my customers (entrepreneurs and limited partners who invest in VC funds) in ways that I couldn’t without breaking through the noise of the hundreds of others of VCs who also have money. I hand out money. How differentiated is that?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. if you want to download the deck it’s here on SlideShare ) Why Did The Seed Market Emerge in the First Place? Why Has Seed Investing Declined?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

” This is a frequent theme of mine when asked to speak to audience about the VC industry. Fooling us into downloading an app to watch a video and afterward feeling duped. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. It is VC math, like it or not.

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JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Tapulous had raised $1.8mm.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. If you download the app on your iPhone or Android phone you can save more than $200 / year on text messaging. By the next Monday we had lost the deal to a NorCal VC. More on that later.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. Telegram announced their ICO and raised over $1B from some of the best VC firms. VC funds invested directly in MakerDao’s Dai stable coin. 5/ Early Effects Of The Softbank Effect.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The median VC exit price for deals is $70 million (FLAG Capital via Bryce.VC). Bimodal returns are a fallacy, many great VC funds are built on the power law curve. They say the same about VC. If you have any problems downloading deck from above SlideShare presentation you can try this link. So entry price matters a lot.

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MAY 14, 2018

I know all of this because every VC knows this because we’ve all either funded companies that have marketing technology or we’ve seen a pitch with a company that does this. If you haven’t read the other VC fund-raising posts I’ve done as part of this series you can find the whole outline and this first in the series here.]

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

And where GRP Partners , the VC firm in which I’m a partner, is based. You can download it, too. And it’s not lost on me that the majority of these people live and work in Los Angeles. Where I call home. If you want the PowerPoint version in stead of the TV version of my presentation I can still do that, too. Deck is below.

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APRIL 26, 2015

I’d love it if you’d take a moment to download the app and tell us what you think. As a VC (especially based in LA), I see hundreds of video apps. We saw downloads immediately spike, feedback rolled in quickly and thousands and thousands of videos were uploaded in a very short period of time. So Why Did We Invest?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Our last thoughts on the VC funding markets heading into 2016 was published here and I followed up with a little more context on the resetting of the venture industry , some thoughts on how startups are valued and how to think about burn rates at startups. It’s linked to here where you can download it or embedded below.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2015

If you create content marketing programs and drive traffic to websites where you can measure how long somebody spends reading your materials or downloading your white papers you’ve at least confirmed some level of interest. So understanding the stage of a VC matters. Finally, you even need to qualify down to the partner level.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

But what if you don’t have unicorn dreams – or you don’t want to pursue VC money? It requires patience and focus, but the freedom to create a meaningful product, on your terms, is worth more than even the biggest VC check. If you’re a SaaS founder who’s wary of VC funding, here are my best bootstrapping tips. Keep your day job.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

It’s easy to think that the wife of a well-known & successful VC ( Fred Wilson ) would have had an easy and storied life of wealth and privilege. That’s why I was so interested in having “ The Gotham Gal &# come on This Week in VC ( video link on YouTube , download iTunes, episode 15) ) and dispel those myths.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 8, 2020

I took this photo while waiting for my coffee to come out yesterday: The initial download and setup of the Toast Takeout app takes a few minutes. At my regular coffee shop in NYC, they now encourage ordering in advance versus standing in line to order your coffee. It is not something I would have done in the past.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Hire admin / office management after you raise a reasonable size VC round. But my slides are linked above and you can also download from SlideShare. If you need a COO then perhaps you’re not a CEO? Maybe you’d make a better part-time Chairman and let the COO run the business?

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MAY 19, 2018

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. So what does a VC do when he or she isn’t ready to say “no” or perhaps might like to talk with you in a year but not now?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Soon every company will also be a VC : The boom in venture capital activity that the world saw in 2021 did not fail to impact large companies. Startups and VC. Regardless, it’s out in the market racking up downloads, which is pretty bad. See you at all three! – Alex. The TechCrunch Top 3. What’s being funded in Africa?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As many of you know I run a weekly webcast called This Week in VC that’s getting between 25-35,000 weekly views across ThisWeekIn.com, YouTube & mostly iTunes. What is the mix of revenue between ads, subscriptions, digital downloads & ecommerce. Why did you raise VC from Polaris & how have they been to work with?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

I watched him jump on a plane regularly to be down at all of our board meetings and while I know that sounds like an obvious commitment from a VC, I’ve watched other scenarios where NorCal VCs find reasons to always dial in via Google Hangouts or ask non-Silicon Valley investments to travel to Menlo Park or San Francisco for meetings.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 5, 2021

You can download a cryptocurrency wallet onto your phone, you can send some Ethereum to it from your Coinbase account in the cloud (called a “hosted wallet” and/or “exchange”), and then you can send that Ethereum to anyone else using any other crypto wallet.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

Most VC funds wouldn''t touch a pre-product app company. He investigated successful models, like Toca Boca, downloaded every top educational app on the App Store, and played alongside his two sons, carefully observing and absorbing their feedback. When he pitched, he was the proverbial "guy with an idea."

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AUGUST 23, 2012

This is one of the best episodes of This Week in VC for a long time. And they invest n select VC funds. download from iTunes for free) or just skipping to the bits you like. I had the chance to speak with Andrew Siegel who runs corp dev & strategy for Condé Nast (aka Advance Publications).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Not only that, there are a lot of VCs and angels all walking around competing for the best deals. No single VC can make or break your company—and, in fact, we’re often so competitive with each other that it feels like we don’t have very much power at all when a company is showing traction. 9) You need a deck.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This was the first episode where Jason wasn’t on the show, which gave me the chance to have another VC on the show to discuss deals. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. VC Financings: 1. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 7, 2012

It's similar to the way you started paying more attention to sunsets after you downloaded Instagram. If you really want to be a VC and you're not blogging about some way to add value to companies, the dynamics of the funding market, etc. then I have to wonder whether or not you're really that interested.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Q: What is CISA and how does it compare to other alternative VC models? Oftentimes our investments are in companies with little revenue or traction, making them more difficult to finance from a traditional VC/angel perspective. These may indicate room for Versatile VC to build or invest in a startup addressing that need.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

In the mobile world many apps are downloaded but never used or perhaps only used for one day. Fixing a problem with somebody who downloads your app uses it once and churns versus somebody who quits after 30 days are clearly very different resolutions. It's brilliant.].

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MARCH 5, 2010

In this case it is novel because kids download iPhone game apps for free to play with them. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. The former is a toy / games company that merges the offline and online world in similar ways that Tamagotchi and Webkinz have in the past.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

A typical VC might see 500 opportunities cross his or her desk every year; for larger, more prominent ones it could be 2,000. VCs therefore use whatever heuristics they can in order to triage the deal flow. A download link is sent to you automatically by Gust once you create your profile, and the book is exactly what it says.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. A normal VC fund raises a new fund every three years if they are strong performers. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Download the a16z Guide to Raising Debt Thank You Your download will begin shortly. Or click here to download manually. OUR PRIVACY POLICY By clicking the Download button, you agree to the Privacy Policy. has the company recently raised VC funding, are there a number of customers who are in existing similar products?)

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 20, 2020

non symmetric, meaning the upload speeds are not nearly as good as the download speeds. As I understand it, cable internet suffers from a few problems relative to fiber. The bandwidth in cable is usually (always?) For applications like browsing the web, that’s fine. For applications like videoconferencing, that’s not so fine.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

At Coolwater Capital , the Y Combinator for VC funds, we assess this as part of our diligence process. Do they get to download the data regarding the people and/or companies with whom they were in contact?Giving And at Orrick , we assist fund sponsors with preparing their constitution.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Qwick today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series B financing round led by Tritium Partners, with participation by current investors Album VC, Kickstart, Desert Angels and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Qwick raises VC money to match gig workers with hospitality jobs by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2013

In part two I talked about how to ensure that your professional services practice doesn’t take over your software company although I’m on record that there is nothing wrong with a services company as long as you’re not VC backed. Only the scrappy survive. But I still don’t get it?

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