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APRIL 13, 2011

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? What Does this Mean for a Venture Capital Firm?

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes.

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APRIL 8, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital today with Jason Calacanis talking about the big VC deals at the moment and talking about the VC industry. Gdgt (l ed by Spark, True Ventures ) – Love the idea. It’s about a 30 minute video (or about as long as it normally takes to read my rambling posts! sites still dominate.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

I interviewed Eric for an hour for - This Week in Venture Capital. 8:17 How did you decide to go with either shrinkwrap or web only product? I find myself nodding – even when the topic is one I don’t expect to agree with such as “fail fast.” ” This week was no exception. 00:45 Intro to Eric.

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APRIL 21, 2010

Investors: Union Square (lead), Spark Capital (lead). Tynt Multimedia “Online tool that allows content sites to control copy-paste activity on their web sites.&# For starters I LOVE the idea for this product. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital VC Industry. $5.0mm in Series C. Want to debate them?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. And build from there.

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JULY 12, 2011

Chris runs a popular web interview series on TechCrunch so is used to being the guy asking the questions. This week I sat down with Chris Dixon, co-founder / CEO of Hunch and Partner at Founder Collective in the most recent installment of This Week in Venture Capital. Such that during that time, Chris “learned how to learn.”.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

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JULY 25, 2010

The key to this strategy is getting 5 people who form the social proof to help you get a bigger angel round done at a higher valuation by tons of industry insiders and thus offering the social proof you need attract great employees and ultimately venture capital investors. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Southern California Angel Investor 293

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Think of web vs. mobile. And so is venture capital. You could look for a VC who has huge wins under his or her belt and therefore has a formula for success. The problem with this is that past successes aren’t always relevant to future ones as the methods and environment of the past may no longer apply. Commitment.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

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JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

If they need to dial in make sure they’re on a web conference and you can see them and vice versa. I’m usually more able to see their laptops than you can at the front and I promise you — best will the world — they are sneaking a peek at their email, stock prices, web, etc. It happens. It is a HUGE MF distraction. It’s human nature.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App). The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. For start, there are many types of businesses that are large or complex “considered purchases” that have higher close rates over the phone than on a web form.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

I often tell people that raising venture capital is more difficult than getting married. Not so in venture capital. Do a web search to find companies that they didn’t give you. This experience made me want to dig into my archives, re-write & publish this piece. You’re tied at the hip to your VC.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. 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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MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, Revolution LLC (Steve Case). Investors: Google Ventures. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. AppDynamics.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Current round: $6.0mm in Series-D from existing investors Foundry Group, Boulder Ventures, High Country Venture. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Current round: $10mm in Series E from Alloy Ventures, Lightspeed, and Walden International. Scans the web for a kid’s activity in realtime and sends alerts. -Co-Founders

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APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. Web Summit. The biggest difference from experience is that in bad markets people without venture capital experience or strategies are the first to the exit. And there’s conferences.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Not so in venture capital. Do a web search to find companies that they didn’t give you. I often tell people that raising money is worse than getting married. I have to be careful in how that sounds because I love my wife and am happily married.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Cofounder Partner 288

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. This was the first in her string of web properties. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. She learned at the kitchen table as so many spouses do.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

You need to make it an effort by researching on the web and going and doing 50 coffee meetings with people. Most Venture Capital “A&# rounds (as of 2009) seem to start around $3 million pre-money and may go as high as $5-6 million pre-money if you’ve made a lot more progress or for some other reason the deal is “hot&#.

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Silicon Valley Ireland Technical Review Valuation 291

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MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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JUNE 9, 2013

Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster. Venture capital will be easy and then hard. And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime. Will this Trend Last?

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JULY 1, 2010

Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. -Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform. a fbFund winner. Current round: $4.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

It’s what kills most sales cycles including raising venture capital. In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different. If you spent time at a site you might not be aware but they’ve possibly dropped a cookie on your computer and use pixel tracking to follow you around the web.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Think about venture capital. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. He was one of the first guys that I know who laid out his stall and said I want to do “big data” investments that take advantage of the explosion of data now available on the web.

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MAY 5, 2011

I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. Venture Capital. That’s one model.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. Welcome to the future.

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Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

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MAY 13, 2018

For simplicity I’ll assume you’ve raised some money from angels or seed investors and you’re either raising an A round or a B round of venture capital. even if it’s just a web conference call walk through. Of course there’s no exact number of VCs you should meet?—?these these are simply guidelines.

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MARCH 3, 2010

But let’s face it, on most panels a large number of people in the audience are surfing the web, doing Tweets, checking email, playing with their iPhones, etc. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Raising Venture Capital Sales & Marketing Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Entertain – It is also your job to entertain!

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APRIL 10, 2010

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. Or if they do they should do so without raising venture capital so that they can still be acquired for reasonable prices.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. Revolution, what is it?

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