VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. In March 2022 Niantic acquired 8thwall , a WebAR developer platform, and in March 2020, it acquired 6D.ai , a company building 3D maps using the mobile phone camera. Unity’s recent $4.4

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Check out this interesting piece on PEHub talking about how Stanford is discreetly looking to sell it’s asset portfolio ! It’s my job to invest wisely in entrepreneurs who are capital efficient, who innovate in ways that pay off economically in good markets or bad and who plan for worst-case scenarios.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said. In the middle of that was a gaping hole.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said. In the middle of that was a gaping hole.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Andy Brown , Chief Technology Officer, UBS Tim Lyons, Senior Vice President, Technology Innovation Portfolio, Bank of America. KUNZLE: Mobile. The back-end systems look the same as before, but aren’t tuned for the needs of mobile. BROWN: Impersonation on social networks is a big problem. 15 yrs at MS.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Social networking. Social/Sharing. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Seed Startups.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Come share your journey capital and gain valuable insights at this meetup! March 10, 2018 9:30AM?—?11:30AM

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 1, 2013

Simultaneously Alessio watched his father create a PayPal competitor and he wanted to make something more futuristic for mobile payments; he then saw a WIRED article “Kill The Password!” ” We compared notes and decided the timing was right for mobile payments without passwords leveraging advances in biometrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

After that evaporated, I didn’t invest again until just after the dotcom crash (when my long-suffering spouse grounded me from any further entrepreneurial ventures :-)). The second company in which I invested, back in 2001, was a novel concept from the serial entrepreneur who invented social networking.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Can't wait until you have some actual portfolio results to analyze and compare against Cambridge returns. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. I’ve ranted for years about how bad an idea it is for startups to be mobile-carrier dependent. Company: Home Portfolio.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). Most indices are cap-weighted - more in line with a concentrated portfolio (i.e. startupcto

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

However, using portfolio theory, your losers are going to far outnumber your winners, so taking half or more of the gains out of the winners will have a big impact on the overall returns. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

I personally enjoy the earliest stages and building a portfolio of start-ups and entrepreneurial teams. Labels: CFO , home security , M and A , venture capital , venture financing. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Look beyond the usual suspects - With Mohr Davidow Ventures , one of the premier Sand Hill Road firms already in the company, it would have been easy to focus on a short list of other top tier firms with long track records in the valley. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I have noticed this same feeling when making a venture capital or angel investment. Bessemer Venture Partners lists an anti-portfolio of investments they passed on that includes Apple, Ebay, Intel, and Google. Labels: angel investing , entrepreneurship , venture capital. Venture Hacks. Steve Bennet.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Hundreds of startups will succeed in this world over the next few years, like all the mobile app companies over the past 5 years. Alexia Tsotsis: Oh, the mobile –. Marc Andreessen: The mobile billing. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. are all precursors, rumbles before the big boom. Are there any that I have missed?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 24, 2011

The Hashable mobile app front page commits 2/3 of its real estate to not sending out your business card, even though I think that is by far the most universal and useful use case. One of our portfolio companies, Fab.com , just pivoted from being a gay-friendly social networking site to a design focused daily deals site.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. If one vocal person blurts out, “just give us the details, we all know social networking&# don’t assume that person speaks for the entire room.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I overviewed the growth of the global internet and penetration, noting that the future of the Web was going to be driven by emerging countries, as mobile connectivity continues to be more ubiquitous and the West is largely penetrated. The title of this blog comes from a presentation I did at last year’s Web 2.0

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Of course, when 10-year returns for the entire venture capital asset class is about to drop below zero, drastic measures may be in order. With 2 or 4 new investments per week that Right Side is projecting, it will be challenging enough to remember the names of the entrepreneurs in their portfolio, let along help build companies.

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Professor VC

JULY 22, 2009

The burn rates of my portfolio companies is certainly top of mind right now, but thats not what this post is about. I wont spoil the end of the story, but wouldnt bet against the good guys.Now back to hunkering down and figuring out how to deal with the burn rates in the portfolio. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. Pose is no different. I still do. That’s dumb.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. When the market tanked they had the “triage problem&# – which portfolio companies to save, which to kill. I’m long Mobile. And Social. So no new deals got done.

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