2008 Google Venture Capital Writing 
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JULY 23, 2014
There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). We all have one-click purchase power (Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay).
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NOVEMBER 23, 2015
VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. In retrospect, our decision was both perfectly rational and completely lame. billion).
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MAY 25, 2013
But VC is like congress. In the original version of his post, Andy writes. “This essay is dedicated to the great VC’s on my board who I am lucky to work with: Sameer Gandhi from Accel, Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed, and Kirsten Green from Forerunner. . Their data looks at tech VCs. 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0.
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists against the VC industry. In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.
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JUNE 1, 2011
years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. I think that’s the beauty of both capitalism and innovation. Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! I started by writing 3-4 times / week. So which is it?
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NOVEMBER 14, 2010
And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel. There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. The VC industry is segmenting – I have spoken about this many times before. So in the past we needed VC to really get a startup going.
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