Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 20, 2017
Our defensible infrastructure comes from the fact that we now have huge volumes of customer storage earning the equivalent of SaaS revenue and any new entrant would have to invest in the fleet of cars, bins, drivers and warehouses that we now have not to mention 4.5 years of software development.
socalTECH
JUNE 27, 2013
We caught up with Mark Suster , one of Upfront''s General Partners and a well known blogger and technology personality, the new fund, and how his blogging is now driving the firm''s investment activity. As you probably know, two thirds of our investments go into Los Angeles. Tell us about the new fund? Mark Suster: It''s a $200M fund.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. They knew the venture math that if only 50 companies / year are sold North of $100 million the entry price for their investments mattered.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2009
With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. But they do small, seed like investments when they like the entrepreneurs. So how can I justify doing seed investments? They have a large-ish fund.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 10, 2011
Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. As an angel, do you reserve money for follow-on investments?
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