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JANUARY 13, 2013
I miss blogging because it serves as a great repository for me of my current thinking, as a way of organizing my thoughts and clarifying what I think and as a conversation started with so many of you (as Hunter Walk elegantly said, “Blog not to show how smart you are, but in the hope of soliciting feedback from smart people.
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MARCH 14, 2013
The major battle for press is a battle for “mindshare” and it’s exactly the reason I blog. They are an investment bank that targets the technology & media sectors. Their website proclaims, “LUMA Partners is a different kind of investment bank. ” Of course not. I am a VC. I hand out money.
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JANUARY 14, 2014
It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture.
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APRIL 17, 2012
In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. And of course a place of idyllic weather, culture and a lifestyle. ” And of course it’s not a true assessment. Of course if you’re already known you could put your name or location on your fund name. My views are pretty well known.
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NOVEMBER 28, 2013
I’m thankful to the founders of the companies that I invested in where the business has been on a crazy growth trajectory over the past year or two. Of course I thank the whole team but hard not to call out Courtney specifically. Thank you to the team that had extreme success in 2012 and a more challenging year in 2013.
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JUNE 18, 2015
There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. I still plan to keep more normal pace of investment which is 1-2 deals per year.
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Profitability.
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