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Our other big wins came from Chicago (Ulta & Envestnet), Baltimore (BillMeLater), New York (DealerTrack) & LA (TrueCar). Andrea Benko , the founder & CEO of HDI, is simply one of the most talented CEOs we have worked with in our portfolio and that included 15 companies that have exited north of $1 billion.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Greycroft is Alan’s venture capital firm that recently raised its second fund ($130 million) with offices in both New York and LA. I also got the chance to hear from and meet the founder of About.com – Scott Kurnit – who gave a lively talk that challenged much startup conventional wisdom.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Who else would publicly try to launch people into space so that one day we might be able to fly people from New York to Tokyo in 90 minutes. Could you withstand the public scrutiny every day of being a young tech founder and show up every morning filled with enthusiasm? They have a can-do attitude that is infectious.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

A Strong Pool of Tech Founders – Stating the obvious. Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. Think Fred Wilson, Tony Hsieh or Brad Feld. Here are mine: 1.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. Check out his website if you live in or are visiting New York! With three co-founders, what was decision making and roles and responsibilities like? Not a chance.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I also made several trips to New York & Boston. As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. 15 companies North of $1 billion exit.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I also made several trips to New York & Boston. As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. 15 companies North of $1 billion exit.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

On social conventions: Two years ago I was in New York and I called the little brother of one of my wife’s best friends from Wharton. On Street Smarts / Working with customers: I had coffee with another startup founder yesterday. He was at a 3-person startup where he was a co-founder but not the CEO.

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MARCH 25, 2016

Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. Read plenty of “what went wrong” eulogies by founders and see what you can learn. Validate data. Validate firmly held positions. ”

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. that’s my daughter – did you see her mentioned in the New York Times!) You have secret doubts about your co-founder.

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MAY 1, 2014

So today I’m excited to announce that Upfront Ventures is leading an $8 million round with some amazing co-investors including Founder’s Fund, OATV, Lowercase, High Peaks, Collaborative Fund and many great angel investors. And for the next several months the founders literally ran the business. I’m long NY.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The New York Times also flirted with the idea when they created “Times Select,&# a paid portion of their site including their OpEds. I just love the concept and the founder of the company, Ari Jacoby. Some of their content is free – much is paid. Like many users I just started reading the WaPo OpEds more.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder). You can hear his full argument in the interview.

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MAY 5, 2011

I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. It’s a very cool vibe at Founder’s Coop. Passionate Entrepreneurs & Ambassadors.

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JULY 11, 2010

And you can tell that the founders have thought greatly about creating the right kind of space for startup companies. Dogpatch has offices in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco where it houses more than 35 companies (about 50 people per location if I remember correctly).

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JANUARY 31, 2011

I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. They talked about how the dream job for Harvard MBAs used to be investment banking where you wore your Rolex watch, drank $200 bottles of wine at fancy New York restaurants and vacationed in the Hamptons. Making bank. King makers. Internet pioneers.

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MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009.

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APRIL 17, 2012

For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. If anything using the word “Silicon” seems a bit derivative to NorCal.

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MAY 16, 2010

They came from New York. I’m not talking about two people from the same company (like co-founders) or two partners at a VC firm. In this case it warrants a personal email (or better yet a phone call) from you and a Herculean effort to reschedule the meeting. Recently a team flew to meet me.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

S**t’s About to Get Real Herb Scannell is teaming up with mitú’s founder & president Beatriz Acevedo who oversees content production, talent development and social impact. His son then went on to raise more than $1.1 billion to finance US startups.) In fact, for every retired person in the United States, they are supported by 2.9

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

At at time where nearly all advertising was purchased on a CPM (cost per thousand) basis and not very measurable this was a huge innovation that should be credited to Bill Gross, the founder of IdeaLab. I know of at least one very clever entrepreneur in New York looking at this space. But this will obviously change over time.

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JANUARY 1, 2012

Or riding a crazy party bus and sitting next to Aaron Batalion the co-founder & CTO of Living Social. As a founder you end up having to deal with a lot of sensitive information & discussions. When I’m in New York City I almost always find myself taking the subway where possible. Nom nom nom. Office Space.

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JANUARY 22, 2011

I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. They talked about how the dream job for Harvard MBAs used to be investment banking where you wore your Rolex watch, drank $200 bottles of wine at fancy New York restaurants and vacationed in the Hamptons. Making bank. King makers. Internet pioneers.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. A big thank you to my friend Josh Webb who provided the transcription for This Week in Venture Capital with Tige Savage , Managing Director and co-founder of Revolution.

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JUNE 23, 2016

He started his career at Insight Venture Partners in New York (another firm we work closely with) and then spun out with a group of people to create OpenView Venture Partners in Boston. Kobie scored highly on all fronts.

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JUNE 16, 2016

One of the most obvious to me was Nanit, that was brought to our firm by my colleague Jordan Hudson who met them team, fell in love with their founders & technology, and encouraged us to invest. His co-founder and COO, Andy Berman , made the smart move from being a young VC to becoming an entrepreneur.

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JUNE 29, 2017

The investment partners are Yves Sisteron (the founder), myself, Greg Bettinelli , Kara Nortman , Kobie Fuller & Kevin Zhang. We’ve had billion dollar exists in Chicago, Baltimore, London, San Francisco and Los Angeles an well as enormous winners also in New York and Las Vegas. Boston, Finland and Paris).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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JUNE 8, 2014

This meant: Less capital to start a company thus the rise of “micro VCs” Younger, more technical founders (not as big of a leap to take a risk on a 24-year-old when it’s $250k and not $5 million. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Gilt Groupe, AdoreMe, Thrillist, Birchbox?

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NOVEMBER 18, 2010

If you don’t know David he’s the guy who will be running TechStars New York starting in January. It gets drilled into each founder the need to have a pithy overview of their business and why it’s relevant. The art of the quick phone call. I had breakfast with David Tisch the other morning in NYC.

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. . -

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AUGUST 17, 2010

More troubling but equally interesting and certainly more provacative is “ We Live in Public &# the documentary of Josh Harris, founder of Jupiter Communications. He flew in from New York and, as I was the president of the fraternity then, I met him up at the airport and drove around with him for the day.

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JULY 10, 2011

Or as founder Joe Fernandez recently told me, “we’re building the ‘PageRank’ for people.” Here’s some examples you can infer from the social data: @SnoopDogg has more Twitter fans in Texas than he has in New York. Companies like Klout already use this information to determine who has influence. million followers).

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

I have these 3 ‘problem children’ that are having some difficulties (founder quit, product has no uptake, Facebook just copied them) but at least I have meaningful stakes. “We want some investors in New York, some in Silicon Valley and some in Los Angeles to help us with Hollywood.&# It’s struggling.

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JULY 4, 2015

We all came from different economic means by relatives willing to risk their lives and their livelihoods to stake out a new beginning in a foreign land that was often not immediately welcoming to people who were “different.” They arrived through New York and eventually found their way to St.

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MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson. None are in Silicon Valley, one is in New York City, they’re spread out across the world (France, Estonia, St.

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