www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. By 2006, he was still only dabbling in the occasional work-for-equity deal. Of course, Arizona Bay is a consulting company, not a venture capital firm, and doing the work of both simultaneously can be time consuming.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs !

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

I was interviewed by Seema Mody at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As the Nasdaq reached 5,000 pts that day, the focus of the discussion was not on mobile trends but on valuation and whether or not we are in a bubble. This is very similar of where these comps were in 2006 when I started in venture.

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Valuation Venture Capital Mobile Global 48

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

-Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie. Current round: $7.0mm Series-B led by MK Capital, withClearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures.

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San Francisco Venture Capital Analytics Government 248

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Michael Yavonditte is CEO of Hashable, a New York startup backed by ff Venture Capital and a number of other leading VCs.

Portfolio 122

Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Started in October 2006, Mysupermarket currently has a team of 35 people and is looking to expand further, both geographically and on the product front, by adding a mobile offering soon. Another interesting company operating in the space is Alice.com , which enables users to buy FMCG directly from manufacturers.

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Venture Capital Aggregator eCommerce Partner 98

Growthink Blog

JUNE 3, 2011

It was developed by entrepreneur Jonathan Kaplan in 2006. Interestingly, while he now has a lot of money from the sale of his company, he leverages other people's money in starting his next venture. Specifically, he raised money from Sequoia Capital. Yet, that's exactly what Kaplan's new venture is.

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Venture Capital Video Mobile Technology 78

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

Even in 2006, when I joined Bessemer Venture Partners, there was still a lot of skepticism in the Silicon Valley around SaaS (one of my first blog post in 2006 was titled: “W hy I disagree with Tony Zingale — CEO of Mercury Interactive — on the future of SaaS "). Mobile will drive new use cases.

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API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island South Dakota 107

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. CEO/President is Karl Siebrecht (ex-Pres of Atlas at AQuantive and ex-GM of ad platform product management, search and display marketing, and mobile and gaming advertising for Microsoft). Primarily targets SMBs.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Move over Bangalore, there’s a new Indian metropolis evolving with its finger on the pulse of cloud, mobile and digital technologies. Known as India’s first ‘Wi-Fi City’ after the Unwiring Pune project was instigated in 2006, the city’s Wi-Fi coffee shop culture and affordable standard of living add to its entrepreneurial appeal.

North Carolina 168

North Carolina Technical Review Cyprus Raleigh 168

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

I became quite good friends with a journalist at the Financial Times and eventually helped her as she wrote a book on the venture capital industry. Robert Scoble interviewed me in 2006 about my startup, Koral. It started socially. The more she got to know more the more she called me for help with stories.

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Technical Review Social Media Software Review Venture Capital 307

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

million in a second round led by previous backer Genesis Partners and joined by T-Venture , the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom. Previous investors including Longworth Venture Partners and Egan-Managed Capital also participated in the round, which brings the total funding of uTest to $20.8

Software Review 138

Software Review Venture Capital Technical Review SEM 138

Professor VC

JULY 2, 2010

A similar trend is happening in alternative energy, the industry that has greatly benefited from both venture capital and US government assistance over the past decade. This does show that venture backed companies have a huge impact on the US economy. Labels: Andy Grove , economics , venture capital. Venture Hacks.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Venture Capital Angel Investor 28

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

In 2006, Benchmark started spending time with Gary Swart and the team at oDesk. And some might point to the rise of mobile which created a difficult platform transition for Facebook (which we will address shortly). iOS could have been both the definitive Facebook mobile device, AND the definitive Amazon shopping device.

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Europe Social Network Technical Review Revenue 101

www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

We have equal ownership in the company and Im pretty sure he got the short end of that stick. :) Permalink | in Path 101 , Venture Capital & Technology | Share Article Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry. And yes, that picture is of Alex Lines , my co-founder at Path 101 , which officially launches on Tuesday.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Due Diligence 40

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Venture capital. At the end of the incubation period, Microsoft hopes to help the companies find their first round of venture funding through its venture capital partners — or perhaps acquire them itself. Mobile Jetpac pulls in $2.4M Mobile Jetpac pulls in $2.4M Acquisition. Developers.

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Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Billion in VC funding. The company has no public URL yet.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

We talked about several markets — security, defense, professional (DSLRs), consumer (Point-and-Shoots), mobile (cell phones), IP licensing, lens adapters, etc. The experience of going up and down Sand Hill to pitch Refocus with Ren is also what opened my eyes to what was happening in the venture capital space.

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Technical Review IP New York Portfolio 134

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 10, 2007

blackberry, goodlink or exchange) and neither RIM, nor Microsoft nor Motorola has any interest in pushing the Apple mobile platform. blackberry, goodlink or exchange) and neither RIM, nor Microsoft nor Motorola has any interest in pushing the Apple mobile platform. Venture Capital. (3). ► 2006. (7).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Video Europe 48

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Previous Celeno investors Pitango Venture Capital , Greylock Partners , Miven Venture Partners, and Cisco Systems Inc. Mobile gaming company Oberon Media raised a fifth round of $16 million – some of the funds raised are from previous investors Goldman Sachs, Infinity I-China Fund and Oak Investment Partners.

Flash 94

Flash Venture Capital Acquisition 94

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. In 2006, Kapor founded Foxmarks, a popular Firefox Firefox add-on later renamed Xmarks Xmarks. Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly

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Angel Investor San Francisco Startup Social Media 80

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Available on the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Symbian or Windows mobile devices, waze is quickly becoming the app of choice for drivers around the world. Started in 2006 by Uri Levine Ehud Shabtai and Amir Shinar, Waze has about 40 employees and is currently headquartered in Israel. million registered users across 100 countries.

California 87

California Strategic Investors Partner 87

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Litmus is an email marketing tool allowing 30,000 customers to test their designs in all major email and mobile clients. Opting to eschew the traditional road of venture capital funding, Tom worked both at GitHub and at a full time job, while Chris and PJ consulted on the side. Startup #3: Litmus. How’d they do it?

Bootstrapping 78

Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Israel’s Koor Industries, an investment company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets, will retain 40% of the maker of fungicides, pesticides and herbicides. MA, which competes with Monsanto, Bayer and Syngenta, ultimately will become private.

Architecture 92

Architecture Dividend Minneapolis 92

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to the 2019 Annual European Venture Report by PitchBook , European startups raised €32.4 Corporate venture capital (CVC) represented 45% of the total capital raised. The fund is done in partnership with several top tier venture capital funds including Accel, A16Z, KPCB, Spark Capital and others.

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Balance Sheet Startup IPO Venture Capital 201

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2010

In the business-efficiency category, Israel scored very high in availability of skilled labor, finance skills, entrepreneurship of managers and venture capital. Openreach, which was created in 2006 to give communications providers equal access to Britain’s local access network, plans to invest a further 1 billion pounds ($1.51

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North America Brazil Argentina 68

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. And if you’re doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren’t), it’s your only choice. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. And how has that affected venture capital? The way that I help them is, I put an iPhone down on the table and I say, "Imagine that it's 2006, and you see this device sitting on the table. It's literally impossible. I'm an investor.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159

Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

The top 10 trends this year were around the emergence of mobile platforms (thanks Apple for the iPhone!), Audience: 90 percent voted “Yes” 8) Venture capital 2.0 His prediction: changing economics for start-ups and Venture Capital funds and changing markets will tumble the VC economy. Venture Capital.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review San Jose Venture Capital 48