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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I know it may feel this way since I’m writing this tongue in cheek. The person writing things he or she is doing me a favor. They had to physically write a letter, address it, put a stamp on it (pay) and then put it in the mailbox. Are you interested in looking at this investment where I’m on the board?”

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JULY 16, 2013

” Case in point: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, SnapChat. Should I write off my $2.5 And if your ultimate strategy is a small sale of the business that recovers investment and puts some cash in your pocket – having more time to make this work makes a lot of sense. But that’s not what happens to most of you.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. You might write a piece now and then that catches fire but there is nothing repeatable that would be useful for a business. Simply write a great book? Why would somebody do this?

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MARCH 16, 2017

We are going to write checks of between $100,000 and $500,000, and we are going to invest in what we are calling first institutional capital. Where are you planning making investments? Derek Norton: We're investing in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and New York. Our investment thesis we refer to as the connected consumer.

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JUNE 17, 2017

Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. If there was strong market demand for their product then this investment might pay off handsomely. At the end of year 5 Company A had earned $19 million in cumulative profits (gains — investment years) while Company B had made only $6 million.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

seed and they are writing $1.25m of it you can expect them to require a board seat) The competitive landscape (If you have several sources of capital you can likely politely decline the board request or can grant them a seat but ask for it to be “common appointed” and those revokable if you need in the future). But it’s quite rare.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

We led a $4 million investment along with Thrive Capital, GLG and Sound Ventures. When you think about great companies that have survived market changes or platform changes you think about Facebook, Snapchat, Uber and the like and have to respect their great ability to constantly adapt. So Why Imbellus?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. As you can see below, investments have skyrocketed – up 300% since 2009. But let me be even more clear.

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JULY 23, 2014

But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. Why is this?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As I sit here writing this, I can’t help but think how excited I am about our future. But I couldn’t justify the investment any more. Dear Twitter, I have always loved you and I always will. Everyone is saying #RIPTwitter , but I still believe in you. And I’ll tell you why, starting with where you started and why you succeeded.

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