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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. If we’re doing too many deals in eCommerce or healthcare IT we might ask whether we’re seeing enough deals in other categories. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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JULY 1, 2015

“the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. In the ecommerce arena I see some great companies spending heavily on customer acquisition. __. faux·men·tum.

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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. It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces.

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APRIL 16, 2011

Certainly if you look at eCommerce & social media – women are the ones using these products. Make sure they’re on your board, your board of advisors, whatever. Make sure 50% of the people you hire are women. The women are out there. What better to have on your team than someone who understands this at a fundamental level.&#.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

He’s created a blog called #LongLA that is a great combination of the weekly zeitgeist of LA tech plus deep dives into areas like eCommerce that he knows well like this brilliant piece on Zulily and Flash Sales (he was CMO at HauteLook before joining). You can follow Greg on Twitter here.

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MARCH 12, 2013

His plans are still solidifying but will likely involve some later-stage activities in the eCommerce & retail sectors unrelated to early-stage venture capital. But luckily for his wife I don’t think he’ll be spending much extra time there. And largely synergistic with what we do – which is awesome.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. I’ll talk about all that in a future post. Mistakes we made?

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MAY 4, 2010

What is interesting about this deal is that LivingSocial took in $14 million in VC just 6 weeks after they announced a $25 million round and the money came from Jeremy Liew, who is a well respected venture capitalist who just completed a similar type investment in ShoeDazzle. eCommerce is hot again! the funding and market coverage.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

They are at the tops of their classes and want to get into private equity or venture capital some day. I have nothing against these young people – the dialers. They are often from the best universities: Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Princeton, Yale.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). The longer I do this the more humbled I become.

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MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. They are an open-source & SaaS provider of eCommerce solutions. eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

What is the mix of revenue between ads, subscriptions, digital downloads & ecommerce. They’ve worked with a few small companies like Zynga, Playdom, GroupOn and TopSpin Media. If you have this sort of need – check ‘em out. </end of plug> 4.

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MARCH 6, 2011

That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. When I described to people why I initially invested my calls went something like this, “He’s taken kicks to the face for nearly 2 years and is still standing. I know this guy is a money maker.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Because so many of us (myself included) love out technology providers, few have begun to fully grasp how much centralized control Amazon has over cloud-based storage and processing and it’s even more dominant in eCommerce and physical, last-mile distribution. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.

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