Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. The firm, Correlation Ventures, is using predictive analytics technology to tilt the odds in its favor. Dan'l Lewin. Dean Kamen.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, January 28, 2008. Happy New Year 2008! The second part of the year has seen a lower flow of blog posts, but part of my 2008 resolutions are to remedy to this shortfall, so be prepared for a strong 2008.

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VC Adventure

JULY 1, 2021

Sweet Grace was born in 2008, as the Great Recession ripped through the United States, particularly affecting working-class communities like Lawrence, Massachusetts where Danaris lives. According to Kauffman Foundation research , beyond the 1% of startups receiving venture capital financing, only about 17% take any outside financing at all.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. It is 2010. Some investors love to get out sharp elbows. Most play the gentlemanly sport.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. International and non-Valley startup communities are developing at a rapid pace. In 2008, people weren't sure if we were heading into a complete financial collapse. After that, we were pretty much back on track, growing every year.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The 2008 financial crisis is still being felt in this country. Then I met the Blockstream team with their vision for sidechains , to create a more robust and scaleable blockchain infrastructure which would enable these new applications and services to be developed and tested. Globally, there are 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. That’s a fact.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group. With its concentrated mix of start-ups, established businesses, and venture capital, Boulder has all of the elements to fuel sustainable economic growth. Las Vegas, NV.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). What are your predictions for the road ahead.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 12, 2015

billion invested — up 37 percent over 2008 investment, when the industry was at its peak. The truth is that there is plenty of opportunity for a wide range of investors and entrepreneurs, and a healthy economy depends on diversity — in both the types of businesses and the capital they can access.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

As Techcrunch announced earlier today, Accel led a $10m round in the company to help them develop their service across all Europe. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Venture Capital. (3). ► 2008. (11). The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

Venture capital and other forms of seed funding have been crucial for the development of the best online colleges. Many third-party educational organizations exist to maintain online schooling ventures, and these organizations typically receive most of their funding from venture capital firms.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

Another portfolio company of ff Venture Capital that targets this market is Voxy , a mobile app that creates an immersive experience in teaching English as a second language. Endeavor is a major non-profit organization whose mission is to bring high-impact entrepreneurship to developing countries.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2011

As any experienced businessperson can tell you, there’s no shortcut or substitute for developing the kind of business horse-sense that can help you avoid angering an investor, mistreating a customer, or making any other ill-advised decision. Availability of capital almost instantly dried up.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

In the venture capital world, it’s similarly staggering, with 4.2% of deal-making partners in venture capital and 3% of venture-backed company CEOs being women.” - Letter from the Founding General Partner, 09/1/2015. Currently, they’ve raised $19.1m for their fund, and plan to invest in 12 companies.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 9:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Resource scarcity leads to innovation — as those of us who have lived and worked in the developing world are acutely aware. While credit was relatively easy to obtain in the developed markets for much of the last 20 years, the 2008 economic crisis made it more difficult for even the middle class and small businesses to obtain loans.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. We were roommates at the time and launched two different companies out of a kind-of dumpy apartment: We both went on to raise millions in venture capital and build meaningful businesses in interesting spaces. Factom, Inc.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 5:02 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

March 14, 2007 10:47 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. Also try a search on LinkedIn.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Boulder’s entrepreneurial system is bolstered by a number of local venture capital firms, including Foundry Group. With its concentrated mix of start-ups, established businesses, and venture capital, Boulder has all of the elements to fuel sustainable economic growth. Startup activity in Las Vegas is booming.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

According to Schumpter, capitalism is an evolutionary process where new industries and new companies continually emerge to knock out the old. Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 12:50 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

As I mentioned in my post on the LLM Benchmarking , venture capital investment in AI startups was down 43% in Q1 2023. This Open LLM Leaderboard on Hugging Face is a good example of the developer excitement and engagement in this space. What else do we know?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Union Square Ventures (USV) has been one of the most successful venture capital firms of the past 10–15 years and continues to be a leader in our industry. Lindel is no stranger to thorny venture capital issues — he was arguably amongst the most successful LPs of his generation.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 2:57 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

As it happens almost every few years there was a new normal developing. The Venture Capital industry as a whole does a terrible job of giving things the right name and so we end up keeping the same name, but changing the meaning out from under it. I refer to this as The Venture Spiral (blog post from 2008).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 10:01 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 30, 2020

This is why top venture capital firms like Greylock and others are actively investing, especially at the seed and Series A stages. The series D insured that Linkedin had the capabilities to play both offense and defense in the 2008 crisis. While older companies are losing jobs, entrepreneurs are creating them.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity. First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth.

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