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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

GrabCAD & Professional Communities. January 4, 2012. Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. million times.

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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

I enjoyed giving a short interview on BBC radio the following morning, after which a dozen Halo members participated in a workshop I led on portfolio strategy and post-investment relationships. Two hundred angels, entrepreneurs and members of the startup community attended this inaugural event.

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How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

While my portfolio is primarily centered around consumer internet as well as enterprise SaaS startups, I typically talk to two to three hardware startups each week. Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and my portfolio company Indiegogo are helping fill the financing void for hardware projects. Look at crowdfunding options.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. ” That always stuck with me. That seems very Brad to me.

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Stepping back, it’s interesting to see this cultural shift among larger companies who are comfortable with these co-branding scenarios, which actually may provide better PR and future opportunities to add to their portfolios. vehicle listed on January 2012 in Crunchbase.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. Fund Details We identify the most promising use cases for cryptoassets and within those use cases we vet the teams, projects, and communities. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly. We were infatuated with tech.

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Fundraising advice for emerging GP’s

Version One Ventures

Since then, I’ve received 200+ inbound leads (and counting). Have backed close to 20 emerging GP's over the past 5 yrs & looking to add 3-4 more to the portfolio this year. Investing felt very easy during that time; investment pacing, portfolio construction and follow-on decisions didn’t seem to matter.

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