Genuine VC

JULY 22, 2012

As there has been a flight of LPs to concentration in fewer VC names, the largest firms have been empowered to raise even larger funds as they expand their footprints.

Venture Capital 164

Venture Capital Aggregator Portfolio Search 164

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

For example, in the past year, we have partnered with, spoken at, or participated in events/organizations at Harvard, MIT, Babson, Northeastern, BC, BU, MassChallenge, Dogpatch Labs, TechStars, Betaspring, Bostinno, General Assembly, and the Web Innovators Group; just to name a few.

Portfolio 114

Portfolio Seed Stage Venture Capital Partner 114

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

For example, in the past year, we have partnered with, spoken at, or participated in events/organizations at Harvard, MIT, Babson, Northeastern, BC, BU, MassChallenge, Dogpatch Labs, TechStars, Betaspring, Bostinno, General Assembly, and the Web Innovators Group; just to name a few.

Portfolio 100

Portfolio Seed Stage Venture Capital Partner 100

Genuine VC

JUNE 22, 2011

For example, when you visit, you’ll notice our conference rooms are named after microbreweries (e.g. “Dogfish Head”) with corresponding signs from the breweries themselves. Not typical. We’re not a typical venture firm , so we weren't looking for a typical office and location.

Seed Stage 123

Seed Stage Boston Incubator Portfolio 123

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

VC brand name matters, but only as a general guide as an indicator of promise , not reality. If a brand-name VC is an investor, it means that at one time one single partner at the firm saw enough promise in the venture to make a bet on it – it doesn’t mean that a company is doing well now.

Startup 146

Startup Burn Rate Technical Review Down Round 146

Genuine VC

JULY 23, 2007

Also, other transportation experiences, namely public transportation, is being affected by a digitalization trend – everything from digital signage in subways to infomation touchscreens in taxis is modifying what we do when going from here to there.

Green 100

Green Bandwidth Startup Venture Capital 100

Genuine VC

MARCH 3, 2008

Ben Kunz wrote an interesting article in this week’s BusinessWeek, but it wasn’t the controversial and inaptly-named title (“ Why Widgets Don’t Work ”) which caught my attention. Rather, it was his framework for the “history of the web” which did.

Web 100

Web Widget Philadelphia Social Network 100

Genuine VC

MARCH 3, 2008

Ben Kunz wrote an interesting article in this week’s BusinessWeek, but it wasn’t the controversial and inaptly-named title (“ Why Widgets Don’t Work ”) which caught my attention. Rather, it was his framework for the “history of the web” which did.

Web 100

Web Widget Philadelphia Social Network 100

Genuine VC

JULY 1, 2014

Within a matter of months, a retention marketing service, namely mobile retargeting, was launched. Prioritize the right customers. Over the past year and half with a product in the market, the customer demand has been insane.

Founder 142

Founder Syndicate Syndication Mobile 142

Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

You go to the site, enter or find the name of their product, and rate its condition. I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem. Second Rotation is an online service which allows consumers to easily sell all of their electronic gadgets.

Technical Cofounder 101

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Angel Investor 101

Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

You go to the site, enter or find the name of their product, and rate its condition. I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem. Second Rotation is an online service which allows consumers to easily sell all of their electronic gadgets.

Technical Cofounder 100

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Angel Investor 100

Genuine VC

OCTOBER 11, 2011

On the Micro side, we’ve seen numerous first- or second-time specialized funds close as well, like Pivot North , Thrive , and Freestyle … just to name a few. All of these funds were raised despite the number of firms raising VC funds going down and overall dollars going into the asset class dropping. So what’s going on?

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Seed Stage Entrepreneur LP 150

Genuine VC

MARCH 20, 2012

I started mentally noting a few sort-of-funny-because-they’re-true cases, so I thought I’d brainstorm a quick list of what founders’ email addresses say about their startups : john@startup.com <– The first-name convention projects that the company values the individual in a truly personal manner.

Email 278

Email Stealth Startup Vertical 278

Genuine VC

MARCH 20, 2012

I started mentally noting a few sort-of-funny-because-they’re-true cases, so I thought I’d brainstorm a quick list of what founders’ email addresses say about their startups : john@startup.com <– The first-name convention projects that the company values the individual in a truly personal manner.

Email 248

Email Stealth Startup Vertical 248