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MAY 31, 2023

A couple of years later, as reported by the Harvard Business Review in 2011 , a survey of ~500 entrepreneurs in the UK found that serial founders frequently refrain from learning from their failures to minimize the psychological impact.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

And within NextView, we’ve certainly undergone a myriad of changes ourselves (who remembers our craft beer branding circa 2011? But in all seriousness, with all that has changed within the VC industry as a whole, my general takeaway is that as a firm, NextView’s core ethos and investment style have remained overwhelmingly the same.

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JULY 26, 2019

sometime back in 2010 or early 2011) one of the limited partners we met with asked us what our “favorite future” was for NextView. Another phrase we use internally at NextView pretty often is that of a “favorite future”. Early in NextView’s history, when we were raising our first fund (e.g.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

This was in 2011, and I still remember that warning. Some folks in the audience jeered because I was young, inexperienced, and hadn’t been an investor when the internet bubble burst. What I was purporting was just “the greater fool theory”. I’m glad I didn’t listen.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). So, let’s just look back 10 years to the 2011 vintage. But what do we see from some of the more recent (but mature) vintages? Was this a lost decade for venture capital? The answer is likely a mix of both.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

This was in 2011, and I still remember that warning. Some folks in the audience jeered because I was young, inexperienced, and hadn’t been an investor when the internet bubble burst. What I was purporting was just “the greater fool theory”. I’m glad I didn’t listen.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

He is best-known as the creator of 52 Weeks of UX and was also head of UX at HubSpot, by way of being co-founder of Performable (acquired in 2011). Josh Porter is the founder of What to Wear Daily , a service that helps you prepare for your day. You Found a Problem to Solve.

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APRIL 21, 2015

Georgiades (Zumper): I started working on Zumper seriously in the summer between my first and second years at HBS (2011), supported by generous HBS startup grants. We raised $400K seed round at the end of October of my second year.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The Warby Parker Effect: Since their 2011 seed round, there’s been a “Warby Parker” effect: brand- and convenience-first consumer startups getting funded at increasing rates in NYC. Key Findings & Data: Seed-Stage Overview: $291M across 175 NYC seed deals in 2015 (deals under $4.5M in round size).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Justin and I met in 2011, my first year of residency and his first year of business school. I continued to think about this throughout my cardiology fellowship training. Then, I moved to San Francisco to work on cardiac regenerative medicine research.

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JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Before Sunrise, Pierre became a UX designer at Foursquare after impressing CEO Dennis Crowley during a 2011 Foursquare hackathon. Pierre Valade is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sunrise , a mobile calendar app that was acquired by Microsoft in 2015 for more than $100 million. Jared Cluff, CMO at Blue Apron. Back to Top).

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2009-2011: Retrenchment. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In terms of outlier success, the Class of 2011 was by far the standout entrepreneurial class, with 58 founders cumulatively raising $1.15 billion to date.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I started Venture for America back in 2011 with the goal of creating thousands of American jobs in communities around the country. *This interview has been edited for length and clarity*. . What got you intrigued with Universal Basic Income (UBI) and how do you see that fitting into the 21st century economy?

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