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| Page 1 of 26 | Previous | Next | | | ASK THE VC 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. | | | | | |
| PETER LEVINE JULY 9, 2012 Software Eats Software Development Andreessen Horowitz Portfolio CompaniesWe just invested $100M in GitHub. In addition to the eye-popping number, the investment breaks ground on two fronts: It’s the largest investment we’ve ever made. It’s the only outside investment GitHub has ever taken. Why did we bet the farm on a series A investment? How did they do it? The No. | | EARLY STAGE ADVENTURES APRIL 4, 2012 Boston Mobile Madness Boston Investments Mobile Portfolio StartupsAt Xconomy’s very successful Mobile Madness event a couple of weeks ago, I was struck by the vibrant mobile startup scene in Boston. Its not that mobile focused startups are new to Boston, but rather that the ecosystem “feels” vibrant at the moment. Please let me know if I am missing anyone! | 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. | | | | | | | |
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BEN'S BLOG | SUNDAY, 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. MORE >> -
NON-LINEAR GROWTH | THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2011 Our Sale of Masergy Communications
In late July, my Partners and I at Meritage announced that our portfolio company Masergy Communications had agreed to be acquired by ABRY Partners. Filed under: Portfolio. PortfolioMasergy’s CEO, Chris MacFarland is a stud. As for us investors; we did alright on the deal too. MORE >> -
THE EQUITY KICKER | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012  Neul powers new wireless network for the internet of things
That’s what our portfolio company Neul (pronounced like ‘fuel’) is building, and they just announced the the launch of a city-wide wireless network in Cambridge, England, that connects devices powered by their modules to the web – i.e. an internet of things. PortfolioWe think this could be huge. My favourite idea is toys. MORE >> -
JEFF JORDAN | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012 E-commerce 2.0
One of the leaders in this is Fab.com , one of our portfolio companies. Andreessen Horowitz E-commerce Portfolio CompaniesWe at a16z could not possibly be more bullish on the prospects for e-commerce, and we believe growth is poised to accelerate. Part of the reason for this is due to competitive market dynamics. commerce 1.0 MORE >> -
PETER LEVINE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2012 Software Eats Education: An Audacious Undertaking
Andreessen Horowitz Portfolio Companies Education Sebastian ThrunThroughout my career, I’ve been an executive at several tech companies that have revolutionized enterprise computing. ve also been an investor and venture capitalist (in the past and currently) focused on finding the next BIG things in tech. Let’s start with what Udacity does. MORE >>
- Building the Global Startup Part 5: In Summary JOHN O'FARRELL | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2011
- What Are VC Firm’s Efforts To Connect Firms In Their Portfolio With Fresh MBA Grads? ASK THE VC | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
- Portfolio Company Spotlight: Identified DAVID TETEN | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011
- A Stroll Through The NextView Portfolio ROB GO | MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
- VMware Buys Nicira for $1.26B BEN'S BLOG | MONDAY, JULY 23, 2012
- Software Is Eating the World—And Will Help to Feed It JOHN O'FARRELL | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2012
- Microsoft Buys Skype BEN'S BLOG | TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011
- When Portfolio Companies Work Together A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2010
- Meet Our Newest Portfolio Company, Airbnb BEN'S BLOG | SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2011
- How VCs Can Accelerate Portfolio Company Returns DAVID TETEN | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012
- The Future of Networking BEN'S BLOG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012
- Working with Friends NON-LINEAR GROWTH | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
- What Is NextView’s Focus? Another Stroll Through Our Portfolio ROB GO | MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2013
- Tired of paper and pen? CRACKING THE CODE | THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2012
- Overcoming the Last Mile PETER LEVINE | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013
- The Making of Lytro K9 VENTURES | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011
- Some Happenings In Our Portfolio A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
- Brett Berson - Turning a Portfolio into a Community. REDEYE VC | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012
- Hiring between portfolio companies – playing nice in the sandbox? SETH LEVINE'S VC ADVENTURE | TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012
- Congratulations @BackType! K9 VENTURES | TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2011
- Fire in the Belly JEFF JORDAN | TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012
- Google acquires portfolio company Gizmo5 BEYONDVC | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009
- The portfolio analysis of industry events DEAL ARCHITECT | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012
- 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
- My Life as a Junkie (or How I Learned to Appreciate Good Data) JOHN O'FARRELL | THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011
- Lytro and the Magic Camera BEN'S BLOG | TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011
- Information Arbitrage - Thoughts on VC portfolio construction INFORMATION ARBITRAGE | SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2012
- The CEO’s CEO BEN'S BLOG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011
- Disrupting Proctor & Gamble SCOTT WEISS | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
- Why Andreessen Horowitz Invested in Foursquare BEN'S BLOG | TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2010
- From Jazz to Sole—Introducing ShoeDazzle JOHN O'FARRELL | MONDAY, MAY 16, 2011
- Lean analytics: Questions VCs should ask (and you'd better answer) WATCHING WEBSITES | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2009
- Software Eats Storage Networking PETER LEVINE | THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012
- When Do Venture Capitalists Owe Fiduciary Duties To Their Portfolio Companies? RECENT BUZZES - VC EXPERTS, INC. | TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
- Solving the Data Deluge PETER LEVINE | MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011
- EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum – more behind the story BEYONDVC | WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010
- EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum - more behind the story BEYONDVC | WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010
- 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
- DataGravity: Transforming today’s dumb storage into tomorrow’s information PETER LEVINE | TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2013
- From School to Startup: Bain’s StartUp Academy Matches College Students With Portfolio Companies READWRITESTART | THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2012
- Why the Browser Matters BEN'S BLOG | TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011
- Social, Mobile, Local SCOTT WEISS | TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012
- card.io: Like Square, but without the square K9 VENTURES | THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2011
- Yieldbot = intent data for publishers EARLY STAGE ADVENTURES | WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2011
- Serial Entrepreneurs in VC Portfolios VC CAFE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2010
- Revolution at the Edge BEN'S BLOG | TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2012
- Re-imagining Enterprise Applications in the Cloud BEN'S BLOG | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010
- Our sale of NewPath Networks NON-LINEAR GROWTH | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
- Washington, DC May 24: HBS Angels/VCs and Creating Portfolio Company Value DAVID TETEN | THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012
- Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue! OCCAM'S RAZOR | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
- Resolution 4: Pertinent Products THE WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS BLOG @ SIMON | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2011
- Put the internet to work for you JOHN O'FARRELL | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2012
- The New Possibilities BEN'S BLOG | MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011
- Meteor Magic PETER LEVINE | WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2012
- Lookout for Better Mobile Security JEFF JORDAN | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
- Great Opportunity at Carbonite EARLY STAGE ADVENTURES | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2011
- Congratulations IndexTank! K9 VENTURES | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011
- Congratulations IndexTank! K9 VENTURES | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011
- 10 Trends In Innovation (March 2011) GREGG FRALEY, AUTHOR OF JACK'S NOTEBOOK | MONDAY, MARCH 14, 2011
- How would you start a PayPal or rebuild Visa today? SCOTT WEISS | TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013
- Winning Venture Portfolios: Russell 5000, S&P 500 or Needle In The Haystack? GET VENTURE | TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2011
- How to Manage Your Portfolio Like a Business FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013
- Gaurav Dhillon 2.0 and His All New Integration Company BEN'S BLOG | MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2010
- The Big Data Conundrum BEN'S BLOG | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
- What Makes A Great Startup? STARTUP MARKETING BLOG | FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2009
- The covers are finally off App.net! SCOTT WEISS | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013
- Our latest investment: iWalk K9 VENTURES | FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2011
- Clovr at Finnovate EARLY STAGE ADVENTURES | THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011
- Boston Mobile Madness EARLY STAGE ADVENTURES | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012
- Social Privacy JOHN FRANKEL | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2011
- Don’t Send A Resume (Unless Asked) GET VENTURE | MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011
- The Webcam Reads Credit Cards! SCOTT WEISS | MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
- Tilting With the Crowd JEFF JORDAN | THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013
- The May cS Award and the April cS Award Winner CROWDSPRING BLOG | THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012
- How to Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies DAVID TETEN | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012
- Why Andreessen Horowitz is Investing in Rap Genius BEN'S BLOG | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012
- How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value DAVID TETEN | TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012
- Cracking The Code: "10 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About. CRACKING THE CODE | TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2010
- Fab – FORE! JEFF JORDAN | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011
- This Julep is Mint! JEFF JORDAN | TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013
- How We Picked Our First Cloud Investment BEN'S BLOG | TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2010
- Achieving IT Financial transparency with activity based costing ACTIVE GARAGE | MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010
- TinyCo‘s Big Opportunity BEN'S BLOG | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2011
- Israeli Startup Picapp Merges with YBrant Media VC CAFE | THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2011
- Boomerang Calendar — scheduling done right K9 VENTURES | WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012
- Boomerang Calendar — scheduling done right K9 VENTURES | WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012
- Meet Our New General Partner, Jeff Jordan BEN'S BLOG | THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2011
- Disrupting Business Analytics SCOTT WEISS | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012
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John Morris