The Equity Kicker
MARCH 10, 2014
As you can see from the graphs below the number of seed funds is growing very fast whilst the number of later stage funds is flat. Chart 1: number of European funds investing in rounds of $1m and less (blue line) and number of countries receiving investment (green bars). There are two obvious take aways here.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 12, 2013
I’ve been to his house and he did build a little putting green atop his patio deck in the hills above Brentwood that has spectacular views. His plans are still solidifying but will likely involve some later-stage activities in the eCommerce & retail sectors unrelated to early-stage venture capital.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 25, 2013
“This essay is dedicated to the great VC’s on my board who I am lucky to work with: Sameer Gandhi from Accel, Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed, and Kirsten Green from Forerunner. But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2018
This is the green and yellow portions of my graphic above which I’ve highlighted specifically as a reminder to you. Sometimes engagement at the later stages seems to go dry. Keep your eye focused first and foremost on any VCs that are A’s and are in your “analysis” or “due diligence” phases.
K9 Ventures
MAY 20, 2015
One of the patterns that I have seen is that for pre-seed and seed stage companies (could be for later stages like Series A and B as well, but once a company is mature, some CFOs can handle the pitching as well if not better than the CEO) if the CEO is not the primary person pitching the company, then that’s a bad signal.
www.mint.com
MARCH 9, 2010
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This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 26, 2011
Apple simply would never allow this and the fact that I'm seriously considering dropping my Android phone even before my contract is up makes me think the little green robot's days are numbered unless Google takes some seriously bold action to fix this. Mobile Payment Disappointment.
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