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| Page 1 of 14 | Previous | Next | | | WILL PRICE SEPTEMBER 20, 2007  Portfolio Math There has been a great deal of discussion about the viability of the venture capital industry. Are such returns available in today's market? | | | | | |
| BEN'S BLOG APRIL 22, 2012 Instagram Ethics Portfolio CompaniesNow what the hell is you lookin’ for? Can’t a young man get money anymore? Let my pants sag down to the floor. Really do it matter as long as I score? Mase, Lookin’ at me. Two years ago we invested $250,000 in Instagram. As a result, I will clarify what happened and why we didn’t make even more money. | | RECENT BUZZES - VC EXPERTS, INC. OCTOBER 17, 2011 Portfolio Management One of the foundations of modern portfolio theory is the concept that the return on an asset cannot be viewed by itself; rather it must be judged by its contribution to the portfolio as a whole. | BEN'S BLOG MAY 10, 2011 Microsoft Buys Skype Andreessen Horowitz Companies Portfolio CompaniesAll these b$%^&#s and n@#$%s still hatin’. used to be ballin’, but now I’m Bill Gate-in. Lil Wayne, Bill Gates. The investment generated a tremendous amount of controversy for us. Marc and I were known as angel investors, so investing $50M of our new $300M fund in one deal surprised people. | | | | | | | |
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VC CAFE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2010  Serial Entrepreneurs in VC Portfolios
Tags: Serial entrepreneurs VC Portfolios Auto change control Draft hand experience harvard business review ioimage many different reasons Portfolios Statistically MORE >> -
ASK THE VC | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2011 How Do VCs Mitigate Risk In Their Investment Portfolios?
Question: How do VCs mitigate risk in their investment portfolios? Are The primary ways VCs mitigate risk are (1) time diversification, (2) stage diversification, (3), sector diversification, (4) pro-rata or over pro-rata investing over time, and (5) number of investments in the portfolio. This ebbs and flows. MORE >> -
BEYONDVC | WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010 EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum - more behind the story
Congratulations to Greenplum and Scott Yara, Bill Cook, and Luke Lonergan in particular! It has been quite a roller coaster ride over the last 10 years and there were a number of times we stared at the abyss only to come back stronger. This is a story of great people and incredible perseverance. MORE >> -
BEN'S BLOG | SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2011 Meet Our Newest Portfolio Company, Airbnb
Portfolio CompaniesThis is a guest post by Jeff Jordan, General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Talk about a business with humble roots. Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. prominent design conference was coming to town and the nearby hotels were sold out. MORE >> -
BEYONDVC | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009 Google acquires portfolio company Gizmo5
Congratulations to Michael Robertson and team at Gizmo5 for all of their hard work and perseverance! There is not a lot I can tell you about the future plans for Google Voice , but I do believe it is important to look back to see how we got here. We made our investment in Gizmo5 (aka as sipphone and gizmo project) in early 2006. MORE >>
- Lytro and the Magic Camera BEN'S BLOG | TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011
- Why the Browser Matters BEN'S BLOG | TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011
- The CEO’s CEO BEN'S BLOG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011
- Lean analytics: Questions VCs should ask (and you'd better answer) WATCHING WEBSITES | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2009
- When Portfolio Companies Work Together A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2010
- What Are VC Firm’s Efforts To Connect Firms In Their Portfolio With Fresh MBA Grads? ASK THE VC | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
- The Future of Networking BEN'S BLOG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012
- Re-imagining Enterprise Applications in the Cloud BEN'S BLOG | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010
- How to Start a Movement BEN'S BLOG | THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012
- Getting it Right the 2nd Time (our investment in SEOMoz) SETH LEVINE'S VC ADVENTURE | TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012
- EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum – more behind the story BEYONDVC | WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010
- Some Happenings In Our Portfolio A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
- Resolution 4: Pertinent Products THE WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS BLOG @ SIMON | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2011
- Brett Berson - Turning a Portfolio into a Community. REDEYE VC | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012
- The Big Data Conundrum BEN'S BLOG | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
- How We Picked Our First Cloud Investment BEN'S BLOG | TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2010
- Gaurav Dhillon 2.0 and His All New Integration Company BEN'S BLOG | MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2010
- How I keep track of information SETH LEVINE'S VC ADVENTURE | THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2009
- Don’t Send A Resume (Unless Asked) GET VENTURE | MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011
- What Makes A Great Startup? STARTUP MARKETING BLOG | FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2009
- Hiring between portfolio companies – playing nice in the sandbox? SETH LEVINE'S VC ADVENTURE | TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012
- angelconf - my notes from Angel Investing conference STEVE POLAND | THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2009
- Achieving IT Financial transparency with activity based costing ACTIVE GARAGE | MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010
- The May cS Award and the April cS Award Winner CROWDSPRING BLOG | THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012
- TinyCo‘s Big Opportunity BEN'S BLOG | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2011
- The New Possibilities BEN'S BLOG | MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011
- Positioning for a Startup Market Turnaround | VentureArchetypes. SEED STAGE CAPITAL | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2009
- Winning Venture Portfolios: Russell 5000, S&P 500 or Needle In The Haystack? GET VENTURE | TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2011
- Project Reality Check #4: Know the Business, Gain Power ACTIVE GARAGE | TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2011
- And now for something a little different: First Round portfolio company chloe + isabel launches [#frc] THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2011
- Jeff’s New Blog BEN'S BLOG | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
- Pivoting « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog LIGHTSPEED | MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 2011
- ShoeDazzle BEN'S BLOG | TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2011
- Meet Our New General Partner, Jeff Jordan BEN'S BLOG | THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2011
- Open Positions at SCV Portfolio Companies SOUTHEAST VC | WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010
- Issued patents don't represent innovation STARTUP MUSINGS | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2010
- Where will the next ad network breakthrough come from. LIGHTSPEED | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
- Big day for Living Social – $10 for a $20 Amazon gift certificate. LIGHTSPEED | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011
- How To Pitch A Product A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2010
- Bootstrap Marketing SPENCER FRY | WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2011
- Nutanix launches and a new era for data center computing is born — No SAN or NAS required! LIGHTSPEED | TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2011
- Continuous Feedback A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011
- Six Slides A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2010
- Change is coming to online shopping REDEYE VC | TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2010
- Firstround Capital Company Mi5 Network is acquired by Symantec PHILADELPHIA STARTUP BLOG | TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2009
- 10 Top Business Models for New Ventures Today STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012
- Entrepreneurs and VCs can use Innovation Engineering VENTUREWOODS | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2011
- Sharing and Exchanging. REDEYE VC | THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2010
- Building A Company vs Building A Business A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2011
- The Creative Phase A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2010
- Hart-Scott-Rodino Changes Mean the FTC/DOJ Will Read More Strategic Planning Documents RECENT BUZZES - VC EXPERTS, INC. | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2011
- Is "Value Added Investor" An Oxymoron? VENTUREBLOG | FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010
- Secured Bridge Loans to Emerging Companies RECENT BUZZES - VC EXPERTS, INC. | TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2010
- Jobs Jobs Jobs FELD THOUGHTS | THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2011
- Entrepreneurs ‘Up The Ante’ With Parallel Startups STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011
- The law of focus START UP BLOG | WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010
- Social Media Accounts are Intellectual Property STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2011
- Have less funding than your competitors? Good! SETH LEVINE'S VC ADVENTURE | THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2011
- To VC or Not to VC? GROWTHOLOGY | MONDAY, MAY 7, 2012
- A Choir of Angel Investors Sing Different Parts GENUINE VC | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012
- Ten Top Product Pricing Models for Startups STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2010
- Invest In The Mess A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2010
- Plant More Seeds vs Tending The Crop A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2010
- What We Are Seeing A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011
- Your Entrepreneur World Changes When You Take Money STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012
- Video Pre-Roll Advertising: SOLVED REDEYE VC | MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
- The Twitter "Patent Hack" A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012
- Angel Investing by the Numbers STARTUPCFO | THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2010
- How to get an exciting job at an awesome startup in less than a month THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2011
- Have You Tested Making Money With An Amazon aStore? ENTREPRENEURS-JOURNEY.COM BY YARO STARAK | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2011
- VC’s Talk About Better Board Meetings ASK THE VC | FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2011
- The One Page Seed Stage Dashboard STARTUPCFO | THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012
- SoundCloud A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 2011
- The War For Talent A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2011
- How Much Money To Raise A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, JULY 3, 2011
- usv.com/jobs A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2011
- Contaminated Labs A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2010
- I Don’t Hate Marketing FELD THOUGHTS | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
- IPOs Just Aren't What They Used To Be A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 2010
- The Model Board Package STARTUPCFO | TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012
- WordPress Bloggers Can Now Gamify Their Site FELD THOUGHTS | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
- I think bootstrapping might be impossible for non-programmers THE STARTUP TOOLKIT | TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012
- Duck Duck Go UNION SQUARE VENTURES | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011
- We're hiring UNION SQUARE VENTURES | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
- HPVP Launching Ambassador Program GET VENTURE | MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2011
- 7 Ways Startups Get Tagged as Too Risky by Investors STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011
- The Sad Truth About Best Practices TIM BERRY'S BLOG - PLANNING STARTUPS STORIES | THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010
- A brief history of your investors (and their investors) VENTURE HACKS | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010
- After The Hype A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
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