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. Current round: $20mm in Series C by Accel Partners (Jim Breyer, board member at Wal-Mart, Dell, and FaceBook), KPCB, and DAG Ventures. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

Let me show other source that may be good for community. Venture Capital. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Explore Venture Capital. I feel like I’m often looking for interesting things to read about a variety of subjects, but I manage to include your blog among my reads every day.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

The point is, someone building a career in venture capital that doesn't include prior entrepreneurial success probably doesn't look like they have much to offer in the beginning. You would see mostly unrealized investments, some of which had raised successful follow on rounds, but mostly too early to tell.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2023

A campaign should only be used if your product has a “viral” quality to it. While it can be a beneficial tool for raising funds and developing a community of supporters, it should not be a startup’s exclusive source of funding. The crowdfunding act itself becomes a marketing strategy.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 20, 2013

Users craved a “safe” place where they could belong to several communities based on interests and Tumblr provided that. Tumblr simultaneously provided a decentralized and centralized mode of creation and consumption (and sharing, which added to its viral growth).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Total Raised: $21.4mm. See: TechCrunch.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2012

There are several key problems to this knowledge sharing little community we've built: People make themselves look better in hindsight. Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball. Conferences, startup blogs, meetups--they're all filled with people telling you how to build your company. On average, it's probably nonsensical.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. Let me introduce other material that may be good for our community. Venture Capital. (3). Anonymous said.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

But on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, you are part of a community of people who opt-in to following you. The viral nature of social networks will also maximize the reach of video sales among friends. Adult Education Entrepreneur Levensohn Venture Partners Venture Capital Video Web/Tech'

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

These business would scale on the sheer virality of their communities. I learned so much in the years I've been involved with venture capital. Sure, other mistakes were made but I was adamant that once people started using the product, they'd tell all their friends. We overlooked doing extensive market research.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Virtually, every business plan that's ever been presented to the investor community, invariably, has that fabled "hockey stick growth" period where suddenly revenue jumps exponentially. Hockey stick growth" is like going viral � good luck with that! Go big or go home" is a venture capital conspiracy!

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Ryan Chan, founder at UpKeep said, “We created an LLC at first, but after realizing that we wanted to take on venture capital, we decided to move to a Delaware C corp.”. venture capital. Seek out venture capital funding. 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. or even be a U.S.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth. What I knew that many didn’t was that a combination of curiosity and a viral game mechanic would slowly get to a million people, at which point the network becomes valuable. Here, we argue that we have a viral product that creates a network that possesses network effects.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Some have made the model work. It’s great advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

The minute your company reaches its peak acceleration in terms of growth is when all of the sleeping giants wake up to compete with you and will spend massive amounts of money to keep you from capturing a growth market and other talented entrepreneurs will raise large amounts of venture capital as people start to see value in the market.

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www.jasonnazar.com

MARCH 22, 2011

If you can create such a virally popular product that it reaches millions of people… yes, you can put off worrying about business models and revenue, but this isn’t the case for most of us. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. They may also contribute code to the community that comprises the backbone of their technology.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

One common mistake is for entrepreneurs to simply select whichever venture capital firm is offering the highest valuation. And because white, East Asian, and South Asian men are so overrepresented in the VC community right now, your investor board members might be limited in how much they contribute to diversity.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

An Insider’s Guide to Venture Capital Financing – [link]. Why People Hate Your Viral Marketing – [link]. The Life of a Startup Founder’s Significant Other – [link]. Is Your Service Business Too Squishy? – [link]. The Role of Education in Entrepreneurship – [link]. Earned Loyalty – [link].

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

I’m your host, Marcus, and today we’re talking to Josh Breinlinger, who currently works as a senior associate at Sigma Partners, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park. I think on the plus side, really the biggest surprise is how much you learn in venture capital. Josh: Thanks for having me. Marcus: Okay.

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VC Cafe

JULY 24, 2017

The early days of Venture Capital Cafe. It was a social network for the blogger community (later acquired by Yahoo in 2007), which when installed, showed where your visitors come from, what they read and where they go. Virality was getting featured on Digg and bookmarking was Del.icio.us. Remember MyBlogLog ?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Both in terms of product, potential for exit and viral growth&# and aggregated the community answers. Most community/UGC sites follow the 90:9:1 rule : 90% of people just browse, 9% may comment and rate and 1% are active content creators (most likely applies to the answer side since more people ask questions).

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

As a private company, you have a VERY high cost of capital (well above 10%), whether you raise venture capital, angel money, friends and family investments, bank financing, or all of the above. Let me introduce other material that may be good for our community. Venture Capital. (3). Anonymous said.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2010

(Actually, I think the bigger wasted talent suck is Madison Avenue—because, really, does Diet Coke really need another flashy microsite that no one will care about after this “viral” campaign?) So, if you just drop into the tech community out of nowhere, with a new startup, don’t expect everyone to jump on board right away. #4

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

So I switched careers into venture capital because I wanted to learn the ways of valuing private companies. On Twitter, we saw a very small minority of prolific users who spent their days shouting about vaccine conspiracy theories, changing the specific thrust of their messages over time to appeal to other communities.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But I’ve seen some recent comments that this post might have upset and offended the SMB community that we serve, and that I cannot abide. In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. same thing goes for the majority of the Java community).NET

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

billion crypto fund, went particularly viral as Marc struggled to articulate the use case for Web3. From tools for content creation, distribution and monetisation, to the ability to transact directly with their community, we’re just getting started. Jonathan Lai, General Partner, A16Z Gaming fund.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

I'm a biologist and a member of the infectious disease division here at UC San Diego and have been involved in viral research, particularly RNA viruses, since HIV came along in the 80s. And I was training in East Baltimore at the time and most of my patients were intercity members of the Baltimore community.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

Someone else in the office just made a video of it, and it went viral on Facebook. He was elected to Congress in 2014 and serves on the House Armed Services Committee, the House Budget Committee and the House Small Business Committee. OK, back to the beginning. This Faster Care for Veterans Act is totally bipartisan.

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