Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Round sizes of > $100 million or more now account for 47% of all VC dollars (62% if you count rounds > $50 million) This has made venture capital significantly more valuable for VCs and LPs who invest in the best companies As part of our study we noticed a trend many have spotted but few have explained?—?why

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2015

If you don’t have the time to write things down, or your writing skills leave something to be desired, don’t be afraid to get some help. No executive I know writes all his own contracts, but every smart one owns every one that is written for him, and understands every element. business business plan entrepreneur hobby startup'

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Fifty-six percent of retailers surveyed in a 2015 Shop.org/Forrester Research repor t say apps aren’t a key component of their mobile marketing strategy, even as 58 percent placed mobile at the top of their priority lists. RetailNext data shows that sales over the 2015 Thanksgiving weekend were down by 4.7 98 percent for mobile sites.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

We can now write $20M, $25M, and $30M checks to existing, breakout companies in our portfolio. Especially, since we are in SoCal and not in San Francisco, where although we've had some great companies lately, there are not as many case studies of what a company could be. But, that's just ebb and flow.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. —

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. Also, you mentioned an interesting rails session that you attended last month about security, and we've been studying Google's web app security guidelines. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

Starting back in 2015 and throughout much of 2016 people started commenting that my blog had become a lot more political. The writing on this show is some of the best writing in modern American comedic shows. I guess I didn’t see it quite that way.

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