Marketing Venture Capital Web 2.0 
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.
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JANUARY 5, 2011
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. tl;dr summary.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 18, 2011
I hope you’ll excuse me when I do the latter in combination with the former to try and explain how I see macro trends and help you think about the mind of a VC. I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. Pose is no different.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2011
I’m enjoying being a VC. I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. VC meetings going well. 2 million in VC. I swore never to do that as a VC. What do VC’s Experience?
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 27, 2013
6 or 7 years ago when TechCrunch was at its peak market share (they are still strong but many more tech blogs have also popped up) there was a term for getting covered there called “the TechCrunch bounce.” ” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) Kind of obvious.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
I like to invest where I have a personally strong connection with the entrepreneur and/or a strong intuition on the market from prior experience. They have very a very good sense for what is going on a market but not a well-honed knowledge of an industry and what will define success or failure. Who ultimately invested in FourSquare?
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