Both Sides of the Table

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. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee.

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MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. Their data looks at tech VCs.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2019

Lucid Sight recently announced a $6M funding round from such investors as the ML, Salem Partners, The Galaxy EOS VC Fund, Digital Currency Group, Breakaway Growth, Frontier Venture Capital, and Animoca Brands. Randy Saaf: Me and a couple of buddies started on of the first iPhone gaming companies back in 2008, called Jirbo.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. Our 2008 fund is also performing incredibly strong. What''s enabled the firm to raise this fund, at the same size of your last fund?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. When I’m on a VC panel, I’m always amused by the answers from my co-panelists as they are usually the same set of “VC cliches” which makes it even more fun when I blurt out my answer.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

Facebook, for example, decided in 2008 that its mission was to “help you connect and share with the people in your life.” ” Patrik Backman, General Partner at OpenOcean , a European Series A VC firm concurs: “What has been most striking over the last year is how quickly the industry bounced back. .”

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JUNE 27, 2021

But these have been the major themes of our partners We try to have a few “wild, ambitious plans” in every portfolio and a few more businesses that are a new model emerging in an existing sector (video-based online shopping, for example). Early-stage venture capital is about extreme winners. It was ~30 days from bankruptcy.

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APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

One recent example of this phenomenon is Tamsyn Muir’s “Gideon the Ninth,” published in 2019, which the New York Times called “a devastating debut that deserves every ounce of hype it’s received.” By 2008, FanLib was sold to Disney , which shut the site down soon after.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

Do you need to be technical to be a great VC? And there was a great discussion about generational change at Venture Capital firms handled so well by Benchmark & Sequoia and how Fred is thinking about it. Just look at our rebound from the financial crisis of 2008 as something that I feel proud of as an American.

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APRIL 7, 2011

Todd has a unique view, having worked both on the venture and high technology investing side at Anthem, as well as the architecture and construction industry now. The prefab building area has seen some recent venture capital interest, most recently with Blu Homes in Boston, which just scored some new venture capital.

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MAY 5, 2009

We started getting approached by venture capital and private equity, and we have eight figures in revenue. We've never raised outside capital, but decided to do a late stage round from a VC firm. It turned out to be fortuitous timing, we closed the round in literally, late, late, late 2008. Bessemer approached us.

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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. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. I believe that.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

Stuart Frost is head of Frost Venture Partners (www.frostvp.com), and the founder of DatAllegro, which he started in Orange County and eventually sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008. For example, Cirro is a data federation engine, which links big data with corporate data in a very effective eway.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The TCA financed 25 companies last year, which was only down 20 percent from the number of deals we did in 2008, which was our peak year. If you compare that to the broader venture capital market--recent MoneyTree numbers said that VC deals were off a third in early stage--we were off by less.

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MAY 16, 2010

Let me give you an example. I always try my best to take meetings like this since my friend had clearly committed some political capital to his friend in saying he could help him get a meeting. The meeting was set for Wednesday, May 8th 2008 at 11am. Basically, don’t be cavalier about rescheduling meetings.

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JUNE 5, 2011

For example: If you were to invest $41 million into a company (and one could assume that you owned between 33-50%) then the company is worth $82-123 million at funding. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. I raised my A round at a $31.5

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

An example of that is we have built in daily tips, which we have put together after going through 17,000 medical studies on what to do to reduce early memory loss. We made a decision not to go for venture capital early. It won a business plan contest, and we got inundated with offers from venture capitalists.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Brian Garrett: We started Crosscut Ventures about a year ago. We closed our fund in August of 2008.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investors. The second reason is that we are a hybrid fund with a unique strategy.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008. I have been involved with a number of companies that had raised a large amount of money, and one of the things I really wanted to do, was do something that didn't require a large amount of venture capital--something that we could do with a small, lean team.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

We have thirteen-plus companies which have gone from inception to selling for North of a billion dollars, including the last company we sold, in October of 2008, BillMeLater, which we sold to eBay for a billion dollars. What's your thoughts on the local venture market? So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Jude’s case highlights, Kijewski said, is an example of a company “suffering financially because of these security vulnerabilities—without even suffering a breach of their security.”. Kijewski and Pancoast first teamed up in 2008 while Kijewski was a student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. What the St.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

WordHustler launched in May of 2008 in a beta. For example, for one day when you finish your book, you can submit it here, or there--and put those all on your wish list. For example, if you're living in Canada, it's sort of a pain to send to an international tournament, and you can use us as a liaison.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

See Five Things Meme as an example. as an example. Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. Neither can any VC. Executive Summary. Why buy me?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

So to give you a concrete example: let’s say you’re considering whether to raise $3 million vs. $5 million. It’s hard for many VCs to get excited about funding a company who is going to compete with somebody who just raised $10 million from an A-list VC (although this can go the other way, also). 25% dilution).

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APRIL 22, 2010

And good VC’s feel the same way. So you combine my generation of cynics with the GenY generation of &# entitlement&# (until 2008 – you only saw BOOM years other than a short dot-com blip). But sometimes it weakens their own resolve. We all lost our jobs through downsizing in the early 90’s and we felt scarred.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. On a panel that I sat on with Ron in LA in 2008 he stated that there were no circumstances in which the founder should take money off of the table. VC’s who don’t get this are naive.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. What are some examples of successful companies that were started here?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Zondigo, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

What is the True Sentiment of VCs? I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” Let me give you a non tech & thus non politically charged example. Mostly, no.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 30, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Zondigo, Inc.

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Frank Addante

DECEMBER 22, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Zondigo, Inc.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Zondigo, Inc.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." The military-industrial complex of which I am a part is a great example of this. One example I found was H.R.

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