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MAY 25, 2013

“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.” According to FLAG Capital there are 100 active VCs (as defined by making at least $1 million in VC per quarter for 4 consecutive quarters). The industry is dying, except for the top 2%.

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JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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MAY 7, 2018

Given the limited nature of how many people you’ll approach (ie not that many) I actually just do these in Google Sheets. I literally have a Google Sheet for nearly every portfolio company who is in the process of raising a round. You can keep this simple as: A, B, C and Passed. Typical check size Status Notes Next Steps 2.

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JULY 1, 2010

Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale. Internet scale.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Election Probability on Sunday before election as per FiveThirtyEight.com Put simply: If I told you that there was a 35% chance you may die next week you wouldn’t assume that the 65% was a sure thing yet we seem to see polls that have Hillary ahead and get comfortable (or panicked, I guess, if you’re on the other side). What utter b t.

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APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. invested in the seed round they have more inside knowledge than I do. And they don’t.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2009

Hamet is now helping True Ventures look at investments in Southern California, and we thought it would be worthwhile to talk to him about the firm's new interest here, his role, plus his insights into where the advertising industry is now. Speaking of NextMedium, can you tell us how that worked out, and how you ended up in venture capital?

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

We caught up with Peter earlier this week to get the background on Baroda, and to talk a little about the firm's investment goals. Peter Lee: Baroda Ventures is David Bohnett's--the founder of Geocities'--personal investment fund. He then invested in about twenty companies, almost all of them in Los Angeles or Southern California.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google.

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APRIL 12, 2018

Founder, Founder, Founder At Upfront we talk regularly about how 70% of our investment decision in Seed and A rounds is the quality of the entrepreneur and 30% is the quality of the idea. We funded the seed round, the A round, the B round, C round, D round and E round. Here are my views … 1. we were sold on the concept immediately.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. What truth?

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JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. Partners make investment decisions. Executive Summary.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Greathouse : HandUp is structured as a B Corp. One of our most recent partnerships is with Google, who saw HandUp as an opportunity to engage in two ways. Second, Google provided each of their Bay Area employees with a HandUp gift card so that individuals could engage directly with those fundraising on HandUp.”. Interview'

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. Side projects used to be hobbies you did in your garage. Bootstrapping Bootstrapping, Side-Projects, startups. . Bootstrapping full-time, side-project, webapp. . The PepsiCo10 program in 2010 saw the company team up with Mashable and Highland Capital Partners to. You've either laun.

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