VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Maybe surprisingly, but emerging managers in particular, outperformed ‘blue chip’ funds from 2004 to 2020. Kudos to all the emerging managers and early stage founders, who are out there and continue to grind against the odds. Eze Vidra, Remagine Ventures Venture remains attractive but LPs have been burnt With a 11.5%

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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2024

Similarly, I’d argue that the early-stage venture “product” has elevated across the board. The same can be said of the venture industry, but time shifted forward thanks for the covid-induced bubble in 2020 and 2021. A lot of offerings that were innovative at one time are table stakes today.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2020

While we are in the early stages of technological development in the virtual assistant space, a Jarvis-like computer that does all the busy work for small businesses is not too far away. Roland Polzin is co-founder and the CMO of Wing AI , and a 2020 MBA of the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The number of local (AUS & NZ) billion dollar companies, as well as the rapid growth of publicly listed tech firms, is growing (Crossroads, 2020). While capital to large tech companies is increasing, smaller rounds for early-stage companies is drying up. Each stage of tech company growth has unique challenges.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

spent $ 124 million in lobbying and campaign contributions in the 2020 election with 333 registered lobbyists. How do you get your early customers to advocate on your behalf? Most early stage startups don’t have the regulatory domain expertise in-house. Get outside advice at each step.

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David Cohen

DECEMBER 9, 2020

” with the goal of sharing the Techstars view of how things have been changing given the events of 2020. Here’s an update to that data through the end of October, 2020. The M&A data implies that the market “flinched” in April 2020. The M&A data implies that the market “flinched” in April 2020. Total M&As YTD.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. Let’s dive in.

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Eric Friedman

MAY 1, 2023

I haven’t talked about this publicly before, possibly because of embarrassment or shame, but I was one of the unlucky ones laid off in 2020. Then about two years ago, I reunited with one of the smartest CTOs I know and we began connecting our old engineer network with early stage companies that needed to ship faster.

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David Cohen

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

” with the goal of sharing the Techstars view of how things have been changing given the events of 2020. Here’s an update to that data through the end of October, 2020. The M&A data implies that the market “flinched” in April 2020. The M&A data implies that the market “flinched” in April 2020. Total M&As YTD.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She and her co-founder, Tim Officer, launched the company in 2020, and even at this very early stage, Dispense has already helped a number of customers process more than $200M in GMV through their platform. We were excited to get to know Dispense’s co-founder & CEO Kyla Moore earlier this year.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Finance is a new, early-stage, New York-based VC focused on East Coast companies. Company overview. The firm particularly has interest in fintech, edtech, and salestech. For more on the firm’s core theses, see investment theses. . If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

These things are right up my alley because it’s what I love doing and align with my goal to be the best advisor to early-stage founders. Company is a great fit: they host, advise, mentor, lend a shoulder, and provide a place to founders and teams. And feel free to drop me a note anytime at eric@company.co.

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David Teten

JUNE 10, 2020

SOP Capital is a new, early-stage, New York-based VC focused on East Coast companies. Company overview. The firm particularly has interest in fintech, edtech, and salestech. For more on the firm’s core theses, see investment theses. . If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She and her co-founder, Tim Officer, launched the company in 2020, and even at this very early stage, Dispense has already helped a number of customers process more than $200M in GMV through their platform. We were excited to get to know Dispense’s co-founder & CEO Kyla Moore earlier this year.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

billion across 2,288 deals in Q3, with deal count exceeding Q2’s at nearly every stage. . Early stage deal activity showed real resilience coming off of a slow Q2, with deal count at angel and seed stage in 2020 now about at par with the same period in 2019. billion in 148 funds for the first half of 2020.

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View from Seed

JULY 13, 2022

RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? CN: I generally enjoy all parts of being an early-stage founder, you’re all kinds of free and perhaps really naive, which is just a really great mindset for innovation. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She and her co-founder, Tim Officer, launched the company in 2020, and even at this very early stage, Dispense has already helped a number of customers process more than $200M in GMV through their platform. We were excited to get to know Dispense’s co-founder & CEO Kyla Moore earlier this year.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

At the time, no one was investing in early stage consumer companies — it wasn’t a “thing” yet. HW: Both you and Kirsten have deep strategy/investment experience but less operational experience, at a time when some might claim early stage VC is tilting towards the hands-on model. EK: It’s a great question.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 19, 2020

The advice I’m giving most of the companies I work with is to not worry about 2020 growth rate but to focus on preserving cash so we can have the greatest possible optionality when we eventually emerge from this downturn (and we have no real sense right now just how hard things will get). Sales will come back.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Even in 2020, a difficult year by any measure, the Austin community has surpassed all of my expectations. ai , a Breyer Capital early-stage investment, list on the New York Stock Exchange. For example, we just announced our Mark Benioff co-investment in Richard Socher’s You.com.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet. There are now 2.8B

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2020, there were 8,000 martech solutions. In 2020, Clubhouse established a market for an audio-only social platform. But in the early stages of development, you might not have the quantitative data necessary to dig into these questions. To say the business landscape is competitive is an understatement.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

The military awarded $445 billion in contracts in 2020. To attract interest the Defense Department is handing out unprecedented numbers of small contracts and in 2020 seeded 1,635 firms with more than $1.5 billion in early funding. Dozens of outreach programs across the military now offer quick revenue to early-stage companies.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 16, 2022

Early stage investing creates the best outcomes if you’re investing in non-obvious opportunities in markets that are early on their S-curve. When you invest as early as we do, it always comes down to the founders. Early-stage investing is more art than science and hence, hard to scale.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Some five years into an early stage technology company, I found myself, an experienced technology manager, as a CEO in search of competent manufacturing. According to the US Bureau of Labor the current requirement for the increase in engineering employment from 2010 to 2020 is 11% with aerospace engineering at 5%. Thanks Pamela.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Despite targeting its young user base with content that has little to do with insurance, Lemonade has grown to a base of 1 million users and posted $94 million in revenue in 2020 in six years. To become and remain competitive, you need both brand marketing and product marketing at each stage of your company’s development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Here are a few of my favorites sampling techniques that I have seen work out well over the years: Take a job for a while with an early-stage startup. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/24/2020. As with any other career choice, it pays to educate and test yourself before committing totally.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In his vision for 2020 , Mark Zuckerberg said it’s likely that AR and VR will be the next major platform after the mobile phone. Mark Zuckerberg’s 2020 vision. I’ll finish with a small dose of AR in 2020 and what experts predict will happen in Augmented Reality this year.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

At Upfront we often talk about these as “shots on goal” (a fitting soccer analogy given the EURO 2020 tournament is on right now). Early-stage venture capital is about extreme winners. Since our funds are around $300 million each this returns 2–4x the fund if we do it right.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. So at any point, if you are trying to raise money, and you are hearing from investors that you are too early and have too little validation, it may be a good thing. Then Liana Thompson pitched Trendy Loot , a very early stage deal site for low-end jewelry.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ). This could mean that everything is going to be ok, as Tim Urban explained.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 25, 2020

As an early stage investor I look at A LOT of pitch decks. Very occasionally with a simulated time lapse – ie “Pitching Startup 2020” located one place and “Pitching Startup 202X” located elsewhere, to depict how, over time, the company will move from an unassuming position to one of dominance.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ). This could mean that everything is going to be ok, as Tim Urban explained.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. At 11 a.m., From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2020

After all, especially for companies at the earliest of stages, ostensibly they will be building over the next decade or more, and are playing into megatrends that in the long run will vastly outweigh any temporary setbacks from a temporal crisis. the Great Covid Crisis of 2020 will be well behind us.

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