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MAY 23, 2012

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

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MARCH 14, 2013

They are an investment bank that targets the technology & media sectors. We provide strategic advice to digital media companies in a manner that reflects how corporate development is actually done. Consider this blog post titled, “ Christmas 2012 Shatters More Smart Device and App Download Records.”

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Campaign Marketing Widget Analytics 389

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APRIL 10, 2016

In a world that is hyper competitive – even amongst VCs – I can honestly say that not only is the media recognition accurate but it is amongst the proudest days I’ve had in developing Upfront Ventures and our future. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. He’s pushed us to be out in the community more.

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Los Angeles Early Stage LP Partner 150

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JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). Calls are changing but not dying. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. billion by 2014.

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Mobile Email Social Media Global 339

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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ). Maybe that’s USV, too.

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Leadership LP Venture Capital Silicon Valley 161

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. Danny became a small investor in Recycled Media (the parent company of Recycled Bride) and became one of Tracy’s lead advisors. She’s infectious.”

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly.

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Angel Investor Early Stage Cap Table Deal Flow 284

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JULY 13, 2012

RingRevenue grew it’s revenue 3x 2010 over 2011 and is on track to grow more than 3x again in 2012 with no signs of slowing. Here are some data provided by a BIA / Kelsey report (2012). How ads work are always different across media types. We have ridden the mobile wave.

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New York Mobile Technical Review Software Review 311

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APRIL 25, 2011

They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit).

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Silicon Valley IP Dividend Finance 332

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JUNE 8, 2014

In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors. Fred Wilson has done this for the NY startup scene but of course you also have mass media located there.

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Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

I predict this will come before the end of 2012. Products like awe.sm (I’m an investor) will help you manage the efficacy of your social media marketing campaigns. AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

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JULY 19, 2011

The topic of social media came up and one dial-in caller lamented the fact that all Silicon Valley was producing was silly social media companies. But as I pointed out on the show, look deeper at the impact of social media as a tool to organize crowds, hold public debates and spread information in a decentralized way.

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Iran Silicon Valley Tunisia Social Media 274

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

How’s that for people who keep saying that social media hasn’t been truly transformative. This was by far my favorite film of 2012 and was totally unexpected. If that isn’t a plug for why every government and every corporation needs DataSift I don’t know what is. Maximize your productivity together.

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OCTOBER 6, 2012

Other people were convinced including Kleiner Perkins who lead their $30 million fund raising in 2012 (they had previously also invested in 2011). 23:00 Discussion of California’s social media privacy laws. 12:45 Describe the structural, cyclical trends you’re seeing in technology. 16:00 What should government be doing?

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Los Angeles Detroit Venture Capital Lean 303

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. None of these. It’s just a market.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

This was a dog whistle to his base that the Jews had taken over the media and the world of money. But he also got more Latino votes proportionally than Mitt Romney did in 2012. Yes, I want to scream at the media who gave Trump so much free press and created false equivalencies between his misdeed and misstatements and Clintons.

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United States America Venture Capital Government 267

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

The other thing that isn’t talked about enough in the mainstream media about Twitter is the predictive nature of open Twitter data in and of itself. talk about their Twitter integration and how you can use Twitter analytics to better monitor social media conversion on marketing campaigns. I'm late and on the road.I

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