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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post).

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Create Your Own Live Internet Radio Show With Spreaker

YoungUpstarts

It’s pretty simple to record and syndicate audio content from your desktop or mobile device and broadcast it live – or recorded as audio podcasts – across social networks. We recognized that this is a significant investment opportunity for us,” says Francesco Marini Clarelli, founder of Italian Angels for Growth.

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Boston Startup Talent: Leaky Bucket or Everlasting Spring?

Agile VC

One of our portfolio companies, Plastiq , announced yesterday that they raised a $10M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and are planning to move their headquarters from Boston to San Francisco. And talent flows in many directions (all three co-founders of NextView are all Silicon Valley transplants to Boston).

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Our Q2 2016 Round-Up

Version One Ventures

Businesses using Shippo in San Francisco, NYC, and Chicago now can offer local customers on-demand delivery via UberRUSH. We still like marketplaces (and recently syndicated our marketplace handbook in deck form ), but we’re also looking toward the AI/ML space. Looking ahead: what we’re excited about.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

It is as if the staffing and management of projects is run by international syndicates more interested in controlling job territories than in assembling vital, dynamic teams who are empowered to succeed. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Our profession is in trouble. krasicki April 3, 2009 7:19 AM control valves said.

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Pioneer Square Labs – Investing More In Seattle

Feld Thoughts

The co-founders are Greg Gottesman, Geoff Entress, Mike Galgon, and Ben Gilbert. Greg is a co-founder of Madrona and long-time VC. Mike was the co-founder of aQuantive which was acquired by Microsoft for $6.2 Mike was the co-founder of aQuantive which was acquired by Microsoft for $6.2

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Never Been Easier to Become a VC. Never Been Harder to Stay One.

Hunter Walker

As we approach Homebrew’s one year anniversary we’ll do a smaller scale meeting with our investors in San Francisco. There’s a influx of capital to back new funds: crowding funding via AngelList syndicates. Sure, not coal miner hard, not startup founder hard. high net worth individuals. family offices.