Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 24, 2014
I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions. years ago.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 16, 2014
Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. Whereas the first two funds I was involved in helping raise each took more than a year this fund was less than 6 months. So, yes, it’s hard.
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InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).
socalTECH
MAY 25, 2016
You have to help people get better, and not try to fix things. The reason for that, and it's really important, is the bane of this asset class is the generally poor liquidity that venture capital provides. When I talk to LPs, that's always the one or two major pain points of the asset class they talk about.
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 11, 2022
Sure, celebs have begun talking about it, but we’re rarely taught about it in health class. Gina Bartasi launched Kindbody, her third fertility startup, in 2018, after her own journey helped her understand just how broken and antagonistic the system is. Nor is it typically a topic of discussion over holiday hors d’oeuvres.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 26, 2016
This morning, Techstars (www.techstars.org), the startup accelerator which has had great success in spreading its approach to helping to get startups to the next stage of their life�usually, funding�announced it has opened up its third accelerator in Los Angeles, Techstars LA. The focus is on helping the startup.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class. Despite my cynicism of MBA’s , this class was very valuable to me. It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing.
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