Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Current round: $10mm in Series E from Alloy Ventures, Lightspeed, and Walden International. Total raised: $17.0mm.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. Later that year, I sent a tweet that inspired a company that initially only Rob thought was a pretty terrible idea: Using FlickrEdit and a JungleDisk network drive to backup all my Flickr photos to S3. Venture Capital & Technology'

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Education plays a major role in venture capital. And they want to be seen displaying compassion because they want to be loved themselves.” ( West, 2004 ). Share It With Your Personal Network. However, in doing so, you’d be excluding the most powerful audience: your personal network.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

To the contrary – if you know how to sell your own work, can negotiate good rates, network well, keep consistent work and have a great reputation – it can be very rewarding. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming.

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Bryce Dot VC

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The idea behind Sessions is to have a monthly “fireside chat” with a new roster of big thinkers and doers in technology, venture capital, design, branding and general entrepreneurship. These will be casual in setting and current in terms of content. There will be no award shows, no banquets and no black ties. .

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. An aspiring entrant would need to build a network of railways to compete independently. Why would Tesla let others use its network, which could be a moat to protect it from electric competitors? “I They own the tracks.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Narrow Networks — Narrow networks are an interesting response to the above market prices that the large hospitals and groups are pushing on the broader market. Also like high deductibles, coinsurance usage in on the rise.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. There are three sides to the network: the consumer, the venue and the advertiser.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. Part 2/3 of Interview: Mike Joins Quigo as CEO, Sells it to Aol for $340 Million [ Minutes: 13 – 30 ]. Judged his instincts, and felt it was Quigo’s time.

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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. Post-Mortem Title : Key Lessons from Cryptine Networks’ Failure. Company : Cryptine Networks. It’s free.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Amazon currently has over 15,000 of these robots across warehouses in the company’s network. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

SupersonicAds – a dominant leader in virtual currency monetization for online games, virtual worlds and social networks. The round will include participation from existing investors including Benchmark Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, and Cisco Systems. Around the world.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2009

– too often I see pitches where the entrepreneurs dive right into the product and I scratch my head thinking why in the world we need another lifestreaming service or social network or ad network (1 – 2 slides).   Take a look at this post from April 2004 titled What Aisle, What Shelf. 1-2 slides). . 

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Amazon currently has over 15,000 of these robots across warehouses in the company’s network. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to the 2019 Annual European Venture Report by PitchBook , European startups raised €32.4 Corporate venture capital (CVC) represented 45% of the total capital raised. The fund is done in partnership with several top tier venture capital funds including Accel, A16Z, KPCB, Spark Capital and others.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

Hopefully you haven’t heard of them before… Jivy Group - a mini-conglomerate of companies founded in 2004. Matomy - provider of alternative payment solutions for social network applications, online and freemium games, MMOs and other players in the online marketplace. Carmel Ventures I was on the top spot with 6.6%

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in early 2017, I worked with ABANA (network of financial professionals with ties to the Middle East/North Africa); Harvard Arab Alumni Association ; and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY (which I founded) to launch an annual Tech Summit in New York focused on the Middle East/North Africa region (“MENA”). Takwin Labs.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

A string quartet played a medley of pop radio hits as several hundreds startup founders, Goldman Sachs bankers, and venture capital investors, chatted over drinks inside a gleaming neon temple of Angel Orensanz in lower Manhattan. Check out this article from CNN back in August 2004 and the GOOG IPO troubles.

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