Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. How did you get into VC? (9:30 9:30 – 11:30).

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Sean Fanning developed Napster, one of the first aggregated and user-friendly peer-to-peer music file sharing platforms, when he was just a freshman at Boston’s Northeastern University. And we’re sure Zuckerberg, who still looks and dresses like a college sophomore, is only just getting started. project.

Intellectual Property 127

Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 127

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Metrics visible at a glance are number of customer interviews in the current week as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses, mentor and instructor engagements. This data gives a feel for the evidence and trajectory of the cohort as a whole and a top-level of view of each teams progress.

Oakland 329

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 329

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

On aggregate, putting a dollar into Israeli high-tech could yield you more than double the returns (if only these things worked on aggregate!). M&As and IPOs of Israeli High-Tech Companies $b (2002-2011).

IPO 100

IPO Aggregator Green 100

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns. So at a fund level (e.g.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. And so we built our company.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

On aggregate, putting a dollar into Israeli high-tech could yield you more than double the returns (if only these things worked on aggregate!). M&As and IPOs of Israeli High-Tech Companies $b (2002-2011).

IPO 68

IPO Aggregator Green 68