TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

She created and launched an overall brand and a swim collection , then came the book deal ( “This is Not a Fashion Story: Taking Chances, Breaking Rules, and Being a Boss in the Big City” is expected out May 2020). Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2020

Of course, it could be your level of experience, or the quality of your team, but the difference is often more related to the lifecycle stage of the market you are trying to enter. Of course, getting money doesn’t assure success. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/10/2020. Valuations are back to 3x-5x revenues.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

“The climate-oriented investment in Biden’s new plan would be roughly ten times what came through ARRA,” wrote Shayle Kann, a partner with the investment firm, Energy Impact Partners. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 17, 2018

Over the course of the last few years, Google has also made significant investments in consortium-driven cables that span the Atlantic and the Pacific, and quite a few of these will go online in 2019. Its first two efforts spanned significantly shorter distances, though its “Curie” cable connects Los Angeles and Chile.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

There are large sums of money to be invested and if investors can get comfortable with “downside protections” they’ll still write checks. Of course I believe the market has slowed down massively. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020. Raise when you can.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Investors tell me that they invest in people, more than products. Of course, it is possible to overuse stories to the point of undermining your credibility or wasting people’s time. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/20/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

Of course, it’s always good to speak with conviction, but marketing terms such as “improved productivity” or “lower cost” won’t make your offering memorable. Customers still buy from people, and investors invest in you and your team, more than the solution. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/13/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Even the smartest entrepreneurs have found that a well-designed market experiment will test a number of different hypothesis and variables at once, without a major investment, proving bad assumptions as well as validated ones as the experiment goes on. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/22/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

< These days, it’s easy to find comprehensive videos and online courses on the Internet to get you up to speed, but I find many entrepreneurs who are too independent and proud to look or ask for help. In my experience as an angel investor, it was an accepted axiom that we invested in people, even more than the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.”

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

million unfilled IT security jobs globally by 2020. Of course, any approach for solving the skills gap will evolve over time. Invest more in training and optimizing the usage of existing staff. The statistics are well-vetted, and they tell a clear story: — There are many unfilled security jobs: The industry is facing 1.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures Focus on Cash While the headlines in 2020 & 2021 touted many massive fundraising events and heady valuations, we believed that for savvy investors it also represented an opportunity for real financial gains. The answer is: not much.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

With computer science jobs predicted to increase by 22 percent by 2020 according to the U.S. Their Siggy Robot is a self-balancing robot that rolls on a pink segway and can be coded to dance, go through obstacle courses, and engineered for entertainment. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , where are these women to fill these positions?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2015

Of course, while these comparisons might be useful to industry observers, their influence on individual consumers is likely to be limited. The plan is to scale up quickly enough to reach 15 million members and $20 billion in revenue from merchandise sales by 2020. However, Jet faces considerable competition: Amazon generated $23.18

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2020

Thus the investor can’t visualize any return on investment (ROI), so the entrepreneur gets no money, and a good opportunity is lost to all. As an investor, when I see projected margins below 50 percent, I see low resources for scaling the business, high risk, and likely no return on investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2020

Every investor will tell you that they invest in the person, more than the product, because they have learned that people with focus find success. Of course, these may need to be updated for cause, but it’s hard to get anywhere if you don’t have a specific destination. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/19/2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans. Note that all of these names were not started in Silicon Valley. Will it last?

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