InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I began publishing my blog in 2008. was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. For the first couple years, I wrote under the pseudonym Uncle Saul. Of these entries, four of them are also in my “all time” Top Ten. 2011 Rank.

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MAY 22, 2017

According to NantKwest, Lee will oversee regulatory strategy for clinical trials, medical writing and translation of pre-clinical science into the development of new trials. Lee is Co-Director of the Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Medicine, and has been a surgical oncologist with Sanford Health since 2008. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. I will write about some of these topics soon. Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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JUNE 5, 2011

2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. As an early stage investor you’re often planning around 10x your investment at the time your write your first check so in this case you’d be going into your investment expecting an exit of $800 – $1.2

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Later, when I was in the tax business at Intuit and H&R Block, running those businesses, every year we had to hire a couple hundred tax professionals, who had to unwind the tax code, and who had to write it all down to give again to developers, in order for them to interpret and provide a usable product to consumers.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Bu when you start to worry that the world is ending (as it seemed it was in late 2008 / early 2009) you tend to get worried about large burn rates. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. The company had a huge burn rate but investors and management brought that under control by late 2008.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Our 2008 fund is also performing incredibly strong. I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. If I write about online education, I''ll see 25 online education plans. What''s enabled the firm to raise this fund, at the same size of your last fund? It''s the single best.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Kanye West.

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JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development.

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MARCH 11, 2010

But there are also problems / risks: - the funding environment might change dramatically – there may never be a next round (see: March 2000, September 11, 2001 and September 2008). - And how do you think the next person who’s thinking about writing you a check going to feel about that sort of cavalier attitude with their money?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

income tax charge to write-down the value of U.S. The firm said the revenues were an increase of 37% over 2008's Q4, and were up 21% over the $46.4M Calabasas-based Ixia , a developer of network testing tools, reported its fourth quarter and 2009 year end results Thursday, saying that it lost $31.3M The loss came due to a $27.6M

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JUNE 8, 2011

But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. Our original company was Collar Free, kind of a Threadless for fashion. We were crowd sourcing artists and design. It's similar to a franchise.

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APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this series because if you better understand how VC firms work you can better target which firms make sense for you to speak with. I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds.

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MAY 16, 2010

The meeting was set for Wednesday, May 8th 2008 at 11am. We write that into the calendar entry so that I (and any my partners) know this and would only reschedule if extremely urgent. I always ask my assistant to be vigilant about knowing whether anybody has planned travel to attend a meeting with me or our firm.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Today, I received this email from the BBB: We’re writing to let you know that during the past month the Reliability Report that we publish on Make It Work was accessed 6 times. When I got there, two complaints were showing, both from 2008. 2008 Closed Complaints – 2. Again, thank you for your time and support!

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APRIL 30, 2009

The loser will have grow a mustache, commensurate to which round in the fight they lose, plus write a hand written note to the winner's mother, apologizing for losing to the winner.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# And time is the enemy of all deals so start sooner rather than later, as anybody who was planning to raise in October 2008 will tell you. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. I believe that.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2014

In 2008, Adam simultaneously founded three ventures while working a day job. His advice is to, "Write a polite email that shows you’ve done some work to understand who they are and what they’ve done, and then say you would like to take them to lunch at their convenience to thank them for their contributions.” Benedikt Scholz.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

A standard entrepreneur retort I heard back then (2008-09) was “I don’t know what my company is worth now. So if I write you a $500,000 check into a convertible note with a $4.5 million cap I am assuming when I write the check that I will own 10% of your company.

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MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. In 2011 I started using Instagram.

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APRIL 20, 2011

As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 Big thank you to Ramin Vaziri (aka RamVaz - a regular live watcher of our show. I feel like I know him better personally since he's always in the chat room during the show asking questions).

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works? Another unabashed proponent of fan fiction is N.K.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

But when I’m looking to write my check I need to look in the eyes of the captain — the maestro who brings the whole orchestra together. About 18 months ago in early 2008 we hired an analyst (pre-MBA), but wanted to wait until after Summer to hire a post-MBA associate. What about VC’s and Risk? It was May.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Exercise hadn’t been enough of a priority in 2008-09. I’m normally too cool to write posts like this. I prefer to write the December 2010 post about what a great year I had. My wife said to me, “I thought you weren’t supposed to work entrepreneur hours when you’re a VC?&#.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis. We have a number of curation and publishing tolls that let our users write metacontent and annotations on the content, and to create fresh content feeds they can place on their website, in a newsletter, on mobile, or on social.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I knew it wouldn’t last forever, but 2008 accelerated its demise and while we continued to do great things, fate and progress eventually took control and it was over. Today, as I write this, I’m working on several deals in the world of coffee and other food products. I looked back. This time, I would just keep going.

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MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.)

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MARCH 6, 2011

He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. Jody soon met with Dave McClure who ended up immediately writing a check as a placeholder investment and offering help to get EcoMom press coverage.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.) My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so. So in the past we needed VC to really get a startup going. That’s awesome. We picked up activity aggressively in 2009.

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JUNE 30, 2010

My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. It ran in April of 2008. We grew out of an interesting use case.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

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JULY 20, 2011

We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. It was the fall of 2008, when Lehman Bros. Jennifer Sargent: We did our initial fundraising in the fall of 2008, and launched in January of 2009. How did you decide to launch HitFix?

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MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. They see how hard she does her job. They know her personally and know she cares about her constituencies even if she has to make tough trade-offs from time-to-time. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. hours / day.

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MARCH 1, 2016

.” I suspect that over the next 18 months, they’ll see another phenomenon that they likely haven’t seen since 2008-09: mark-downs of the VCs’ portfolios. A normal VC fund raises a new fund every three years if they are strong performers. Luckily, LPs seem to agree with this thesis.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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