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You Think You Screwed Up? Have I Got a Story for You!

Babbling VC

Without naming the name of the companies, I clearly made two investments convinced of the product and that people would love it. Co-Investors. Technically, co-investors would fall under the "People" heading above but here I'm focussing more on the funds themselves and not specific partners or people at that fund. .

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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum – more behind the story

BeyondVC

Little do people know that when Dawntreader first funded Dali Media along with Impact Venture Partners and Primedia Ventures that the company was called Dali Media and then Metapa, standing for media to all places. A few months after closing that round, we changed the name to Greenplum.

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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum - more behind the story

BeyondVC

Little do people know that when Dawntreader first funded Dali Media along with Impact Venture Partners and Primedia Ventures that the company was called Dali Media and then Metapa, standing for media to all places. A few months after closing that round, we changed the name to Greenplum.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. Your customers and your investors like partners? And of course, this is 2000. This one really started getting legs in the late '90s, early 2000s.