VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

To put things in context, global venture funding in Q2 2023 reached $65 billion, an 18% decline quarter over quarter, and a 49% drop compared to the second quarter of 2022, when startup investors spent $127 billion, according to Crunchbase. I tried to consolidate my thoughts as well as other perspectives from leading venture capital funds.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. 11- Four things. Photo Credit: Mac Fadra.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Huston-Tillotson (@HustonTillotson) | Twitter Eugene Sepulveda CEO, Entrepreneurs Foundation Director, Capital Factory Sr. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

In my career, I have never seen a position in any industry with more varying criteria than General Partner at a venture capital firm. Some firms hire pure investors, some firms hire operators, some Wall Street analysts, some firms hire sales people, some firms hire lawyers, and others hire reporters. DMX, Who We Be.

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Both Sides of the Table

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). Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

The former manager had been fired because: ESL had a major military contract to deploy an intelligence gathering system to Korea they needed to train the Army Security Agency on maintenance of the system the 10 week training course (6-hours a day) hadn’t been written the class was supposed to start in 6 weeks. Are You Single?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Supercomputers With the introduction in 1976 of the Cray-1 , supercomputers were defined as the fastest vector-processing computer , one in which a single instruction performed operations on an array rather than a single number. Cray’s first customers were the U.S.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As is the case in other countries with a relatively new, rapidly growing tech sector, e-commerce is Russia’s fastest growing vertical. QIWI plc is the largest Russian operator of electronic payment systems and was founded by a group of iTech Capital LPs. Since the date of the IPO, the company has tripled in size.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.”

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

Although all the manuals were in safes, the whole site was so secure that anybody who had access to that site had access to everything – including other compartmentalized systems that had nothing to do with me – and that I wasn’t cleared for. Twenty times more technical reading than just my equipment. We could do what!? From where??)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

military, the CIA and the National Security Agency. Next, Terman used his military contacts to secure funding for the Lab from the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force and the Army Signal Corps. Have they moved to their forward operating bases in the Artic?) How many did they have? How would they reach the U.S.?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Wong says the main reason why he chose to target the Western market first was to secure a stable cashflow. You figure out a way to compete with them, not on the surface but in a different direction… Make a vertical (niche) so good that you own a large market share. Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). It’s like arguing against vertical software. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists. He was named the venture capitalist of the year in 2016 at the TechCrunch’s annual Crunchy awards. Bill Gurley : Great. You pay premiums.

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