View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This typically has a dual purpose: generate a return on the company’s cash while also gaining insight into new startups and technologies that may be of strategic interest to the corporation. A handful of large corporations actively invest in VC funds themselves.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This typically has a dual purpose: generate a return on the company’s cash while also gaining insight into new startups and technologies that may be of strategic interest to the corporation. A handful of large corporations actively invest in VC funds themselves.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Tesla is not. It's a great talk. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. That seems like bad policy.

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Technology Venture Investors [Silicon Valley] –> Claim to fame… sole VC investor in Microsoft, which turned out ok. What’s a “fair” split of fee income and carried interest when a partner joins several years/funds after others? But it’s not quite that simple.

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing. (Hunter Walk just wrote his perspectives here ) Here are some of my learnings from the last year. 1) It is absolutely the best job in the world for me. 4) You should love fundraising.

Salary 48

Salary Capital Call Bootstrapping Cofounder 48

Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing. (Hunter Walk just wrote his perspectives here ) Here are some of my learnings from the last year. 1) It is absolutely the best job in the world for me. 4) You should love fundraising.

Salary 48

Salary Capital Call Bootstrapping Cofounder 48

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

A few months ago, I got a pitch from a company providing a kind of “last mile” for computer vision—an always-on human network that would take images that computers couldn’t identify, and spit back whether or not a roof tile was broken or if a signature matched. That was before Prop 22 passed.

Venture Capital 152

Venture Capital Cap Table Accredited Investor Silicon Valley 152