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JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

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MARCH 29, 2014

Consider this story from the founders of Kayak quoted in this excellent article about the most respected venture capital firm in the business – Sequoia. How I got to move to Europe. And even a “no” should just be a suggestion to try harder. ” This is the norm. How I got to work in Tokyo.

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JANUARY 25, 2014

The venture capital firm that bears his name. Jews were excluded from trade guilds across Europe for hundreds of years which made it impossible for Jewish people to have a normal, stable income from the most important jobs of those era. And then I settled on a thought I couldn’t get out of my head. Kleiner Perkins.

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MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. The US market is worth more than $25 billion and Europe is the same. Running up big losses or trying to grow extraordinarily fast through paid marketing initiatives that have long payback periods will be the kiss of death for you.

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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. We were it in Europe: B2B. Don’t drink it.

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APRIL 23, 2011

He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. 16:35-19:35).

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. The Europe goal was shaped by three random things: My father is from South America and his native language is Spanish (although his father was from Romania and escaped oppression there).

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I had just moved back to the US from living in Europe for 11 years. We had never purchased a house in Europe because we always knew we’d move home at some point. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. But there’s no doubt we took the edge off.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London. I’m now down 8.6

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JANUARY 28, 2011

You want somebody who can do handset deals in the US, Europe & Asia. What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? You want somebody who can lead teams on three continents. ON SUCCESS. How do we measure success?

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AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. I lived in Europe for 11 years and in Tokyo for 6 months so the idea that innovation is happening outside of our 50 states in not new to me. He also consults companies in Asia.

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AUGUST 18, 2015

But he didn’t have access to venture capital money, online marketing dollars, social media – this was the late 60’s / early 70’s. Every riot or protest Uber has ever had across Europe has led to record downloads of the app. He understood his “product” and his market.

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MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. Or when I lived in Europe and everybody I knew was using Skype. One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

About 400 years ago merchants from the Netherlands were sending ships to Asia in search of spices widely desired in Europe. So however populist the idea of cutting out people from the process may be, I strongly doubt it will replace the role of the existing venture capital ecosystem. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.

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