This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2013

When I was in college, at Fordham''s scenic Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, I deeply rooted into my community. Being intensely involved in community life there made the campus seem small and familiar. Passing on that experience has been at the core of what I do in the NYC tech community for the better part of the last decade.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Next Wednesday night, I'm hosting a roundtable discussion between Brooklyn innovation community stakeholders on how to make this side of the river a better place to create, build businesses and grow. Honestly, it was a fair bit of hand waving and maybe a little smoke and mirrors--saying in 2005 that we had a ton of startup-ready tech talent.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Groups list on March 15, 2005. It was an ad supported virtual community. to date from some of the best, including most recently Workday and others. Profitable from day one.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

He built a practice around a growing community in the Mid Atlantic and beyond. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. And again I won’t take credit for his decision to join Cooley but the magic of having David join Cooley is simply an awesome outcome for our community at large.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We rode the bubble wave to a successful outcome in 2000 , and after moving away for a few years which included a stint at business school , I returned back to Boston in 2004, and it felt like the web entrepreneurial community had almost entirely scattered after the crash. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

But just who are these funds and venture capitalists that run them? We’re highlighting key members of the community to find out. Manu Kumar is Founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures. What led you to the venture capital world? VN : Tell me a bit about your background. Where did you go to school?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. And that is precisely my thoughts for Seattle and what I plan to deliver on Thursday night: Which few key community leaders are going to step up and get those neurons properly firing and connected? My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

So what would have happened had Sean met Joshua Schachter in 2005--would Josh have still sold out early to Yahoo! NYC needs him not only to wave the flag a bit on the ideas here that could go big, but also to share the steps needed to get here with the local community. or would he have been convinced to take a financing round?

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. In addition to Platform and Applied Venture strategies, the trend towards hiring ex-operators into partner roles at VC firms can be seen in this light.

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Altgate

JANUARY 17, 2009

I was impressed that FCAT was not just looking into data visualization and manipulation, but also at social networking and communities. The facility is the kind of lab that startups fantasize about. I think FCAT should rent the place out so smaller firms can leverage their investments, but somehow I doubt that will happen.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

Ten years ago, in 2005, I started working for Union Square Ventures as their first analyst. You could literally get to know everyone in the local tech community at the time. Now, the community is orders of magnitude larger and the number of investors who invest here has grown significantly. Venture Capital & Technology'

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

Initially there was some skepticism about how effective cognitive training was, but nowadays, as more studies are published, it is gaining acceptance from the scientific community. Both companies are backed by venture capital funds. The rise of the information industry changed all that. Cognitive gaming became a viable business.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Go direct and network your way to the people you need to meet or find them directly in the local community. By the way, investors hate deals that come to them via brokers…there is a perceived adverse selection bias…they’re thinking, “if you can’t raise money by yourself, how are you going to build a business?&#

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

A similar pattern exists for venture capital funding: In 2020, just three regions — the Bay Area, New York, and Massachusetts — accounted for 70%+ of total venture funding in the U.S. Venture capital. Silicon Valley didn’t create venture capital, and venture capital didn’t create Silicon Valley.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

The startup takes off, raising venture capital funds faster than you can say “storybook ending.”. million in venture capital —and they continue to grow, with plans for a mobile app and potential overseas expansion. An unlikely combination: Poker winnings and venture capital. See Also Market Research.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

To catch you up, here’s a brief summary of TinySeed: TinySeed is a remote accelerator designed for SaaS founders seeking mentorship from world-class experts, community with other talented founders, and enough funding to live for a year. Traditionally, venture capital has consisted of unicorn-hunting.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

These notions of an independent ethos don’t map that well to what we know about venture capital, which is a very staged and formulaic way of building a company. As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. Because venture does provide a lot of good things to a bunch of really great companies.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Lindzon has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. He has lectured and consulted extensively for industry, academia, military, and intelligence communities. He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

A 2005 report by the Government Accountability Office indicates that textbook prices have outpaced inflation by more than 2-1 over the past two decades and account for 26% of tuition and fees at four-year public universities and nearly three-quarters of costs at community colleges. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. He began as part of Salt Lake Citys Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures ), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001. We thought readers might like to know more about this interesting player in the tech community. "I

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. This is unintentional and inevitable.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Top Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Search Chat Links LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Flickr Last.fm and thats how I found him when I walked in at 7:50AM this morning.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Emmanuel Macron during the workshop in Versailles In this context I was invited, together with a large dozen of foreign investors, to participate in a workshop to discuss what France could to do to attract more venture capital from global firms.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We met back in 2005 through our respective blogs—he was writing at Businesspundit at the time. What's really exciting is the enthusiasm among the tech community for services that help enterprises, small businesses, and consumers alike move to the cloud.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. Without a product for your term, build a community.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. They may also contribute code to the community that comprises the backbone of their technology.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2008

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← A Squeeze On Boston Venture Valuations Geek Quotes → How Much Is A Free Customer Worth? Of course, the key question is how much should you pay to acquire a doctor?

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Altgate

JUNE 26, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← F the Banksta! Apparently there are now 30-odd hospitals live in some fashion with i2b2 and later this fall (targeted for September) i2b2 v1.4

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 9, 2012

These days, it's kind of hard to miss what's going on in the NYC startup community. Every night, hundreds of people pack all the various meetups, there are hackathons and startup weekends, and it seems there's a new venture funding announcement everyday. There were 30 of us the first time I went back in 2005.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

And since there was no Venture Capital in the 1950′s/’60′s where was the money coming from? The formation of the military/industrial/university relationships during the Cold War and the relationship between Stanford and the intelligence community in particular, went on untold and out of sight.

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VC Cafe

JULY 24, 2017

I started blogging in December 2005. Blogger in 2005 (courtesy of Internet Time Machine) . The list of top blogs in 2005 by Time Magazine is a good snapshot: the hardcore tech blogs were LifeHacker and BoingBoing (both are a bit ‘tired’ but still great) and people flocked to blogs like Overheard in New York and PostSecret.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

Despite the buzz among entrepreneur communities, various restrictions may make crowdfunding impractical for companies raising money and the intermediaries that facilitate the process. In 2005, Kiva launched a micro-finance platform that allows people to lend small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in developing areas.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In 2005, we launched all three products — in the order of listings, subscriptions, then ads — eventually discovering two surprising insights: The principal market for our listings and subscriptions products became the recruiting space, instead of business development and networking. But now it was time to get to revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners. Treasury Department assembled 17 leaders of the startup business investment community, under the auspices of its Access to Capital Conference. In March 2011, the U.S.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2011

We at VC Cafe have been putting the spotlight on Israeli innovation and VC investments in Israel since 2005, showing that there’s more news to Israel than just the conflict, and highlighting innovation , lessons learned and new opportunities.

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