Sentences with phrase «venture capitalists into»

There's no plan afoot to carve four venture capitalists into a mountain anytime soon (though it's not inconceivable given the money and ego in Silicon Valley), but it's still an interesting thought exercise, which is why I put the question to various founders and venture capitalists.

Their top - rated solution is to get more women venture capitalists into the industry.

Not exact matches

In 2012, venture capitalists poured $ 853 million into gaming companies.

Over the years, the acronym has become a sort - of mantra for the famed Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers venture capitalist, who more recently turned it into a book (Measure What Matters; Portfolio, $ 14) he describes as «my love letter to our future.»

And while this has largely benefited residents of Silicon Valley, who have immediate admission into a row of venture capitalists, on a macroeconomic scale, this has proven to be inefficient, as the majority of people with ideas and talent do not have admittance into this elitist group.

In the new issue of Inc., I talked to the billionaire venture capitalist about why he's been putting so much of his time and money into biotech startups, particularly those focused on health and human biology.

In the first nine months of the year, venture capitalists poured $ 24 billion into tech startups around the country.

Venture capitalists often demand significant input into management decisions by, for instance, placing one or more people on your board of directors.

Venture capitalists have done their part to fuel the madness, plunging $ 3.8 billion into 332 security deals last year, up from $ 2.8 billion and 299 transactions in 2014, according to CB Insights.

The startup had several connections to Branson: Giegel briefly worked for Virgin Galactic in 2014; fellow co-founder Shervin Pishevar, a high - profile venture capitalist, was an early reservation holder on Galactic's celebrity - studded list of customers waiting to take a flight into space.

Companies accepted into TechStars New York get free office space, $ 18,000 in cash, $ 100,000 in convertible debt, and access to 150 mentors -; the list includes Fog Creek Software founder Joel Spolsky, venture capitalist Fred Wilson, and Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley.

In a LinkedIn blog post, venture capitalist Hoffman gave his insight into how to end the culture of sexism in Silicon Valley.

In such a model, when a Canadian venture capitalist invests $ 4 million in a Series A round, that private risk capital goes directly into new hiring and sales execution.

The initiative also offers an entrée into the country's tight circle of well - heeled venture capitalists, whose investments are being matched as much as 3 to 1 by the Chilean government.

Venture capitalists are already avoiding startups that will require big bandwidth, which would necessarily bring them into conflict with ISPs, or into a position where their costs of doing business would be too high.

It also has the advantage of putting all backers into a single - purpose fund — a benefit for any entrepreneur needing to seek future funding as venture capitalists wouldn't have to manage multiple individuals who previously invested.

According to entrepreneur - turned - top venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, most of the tricky skills needed to excel are drummed into leaders through years of experience.

As venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote in a blog post defending Graham's stance, «We see very few women entrepreneurs walk into [Union Square Ventures] and that is disappointing to me.

The huge jump in security incidents has also spurred venture capitalists, especially corporate venture arms, to pour money into the cybersecurity start - ups.

Last year venture capitalists sank a record $ 7.4 billion into biotechs, the largest sum in the 20 - year history of the PwC MoneyTree report.

Venture capitalists plowed $ 582 million into it in its first two years, valuing it at a stunning $ 4.5 billion.

After all, in the first half of 1999 alone, venture capitalists poured a record $ 5.9 billion into Internet - based companies, according to the VentureOne Corp., which tracks the venture industry.

John Lilly, the venture capitalist and prolific tweeter, recently cited a friend who categorizes colleagues into buckets, based on the number of tech - industry downturns they've experienced.

If you want to know the future, you can pay a few bucks to get your friendly local psychic to gaze into her crystal ball, but you'd probably do a lot better to ask a venture capitalist.

From Uber's toxic workplace, to reports of venture capitalists harassing female entrepreneurs, to that Google bro who posted that manifesto saying women tend to be more neurotic than men even as the company undergoes a federal investigation into whether it pays women less than men... none of this is good.

Spotting the steady rise in clientele, money managers — from risk - seeking venture capitalists to boring old pension funds — have been getting into the death business.

Chamath Palihapitiya says he never logs into Facebook, and he calls venture capitalists «soulless cowards.»

NuData and other fraud detection startups will remain in a good position for investment into the future, even with money from blue - chip venture capitalists and other investors growing scarcer in the tech sector, says Pascual.

The week ended with sexual harassment allegations against venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck which has continued to spiral deeper into the industry this week around the permissive role others played in allowing the behavior over many years.

Meanwhile, the largest sellers of stocks have been managers and venture capitalists «cashing out» by selling into a market fueled mainly by labor's wage set - asides.

Venture capitalists are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Bitcoin - based startups.

Foursquare, which lets users check in to show they're visiting a place like a restaurant or shop, is also negotiating with venture capitalists who own convertible debt about turning their holdings into equity, said one of the people.

Australian Government review into crowdfunding: why retail investors could become the new venture capitalists

This was where the venture capitalists» unique skill - set came into play: they identified the startups worthy of funding through little more than a PowerPoint and a person, and brought to bear the level of upfront capital necessary to make that startup a reality.

What I was most curious about at this stage, aside from building something useful, was the relationship between a startup and institutional venture capitalists, who are allocating capital from their funds into startups at various stages.

The loan amount is later converted into equity when the company goes on to raise its Series A round (equity funding) from venture capitalists.

Interestingly, just as in every other commodity market, the greatest defense for venture capitalists turns out to be brand: firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz can buy into firms at superior prices because it matters to the startup to have them on their cap table.5 Moreover, Andreessen Horowitz in particular has been very open about their goal to offer startups far more than money, including dedicated recruiting teams, marketing teams, and probably most usefully an active business development team.

I would say it probably wasn't until I was two years into the process that I even had confidence to write a check, to make a decision as a venture capitalist, because the first couple years all I learned was shocking and confusing and I'm realizing that was very different from a normal world.

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists stay awake nights trying to figure out how to get into the act as quickly as possible.

Prominent venture capitalist Fred Wilson spoke at a recent event held by the NYC Foundation for Computer Science Education, in which he highlighted the two biggest threats holding back bitcoin from entering into the realm of the mainstream: security and hoarding.

There are a lot of things to put into consideration before selecting potential Venture capitalists to approach.

In the late 1990s venture capitalists and individual investors were pouring money into internet dot com companies, driving their values sky high.

With millions of dollars in play, venture capitalists are looking for startup companies that know their market, don't overexaggerate their financial prospects and have the right team to convert ideas into returns.

According to the National Venture Capital Association, venture capitalists invested $ 5.9 billion in the first three months of the year, up 14 percent from the period a year earlier, but they invested in 51 fewer companies, indicating they were funneling more money into fewer startVenture Capital Association, venture capitalists invested $ 5.9 billion in the first three months of the year, up 14 percent from the period a year earlier, but they invested in 51 fewer companies, indicating they were funneling more money into fewer startventure capitalists invested $ 5.9 billion in the first three months of the year, up 14 percent from the period a year earlier, but they invested in 51 fewer companies, indicating they were funneling more money into fewer start - ups.

This is troubling given that venture capitalists, who are mostly men, are the ones providing so much of the seed funding to get ideas into the marketplace.

At a recent Bloomberg conference, he got into a heated argument with early Facebook executive and venture capitalist, Chamath Palihapitiya over the city's housing crisis.

Because of an investment by a venture capitalist, Bernard and Alex were able to move into the export market successfully.

At his blog 500 Hats (one of the most - read blogs by venture capitalists, according to the Wall Street Journal), he provides an inside view into the world of venture capitalism and angel investing.

Venture capitalists have been pouring money into clean meat companies such as Memphis Meats, which has attracted capital from billionaires Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Jack and Suzy Welch, and Just (formerly known as Hampton Creek).

Republicans were still stinging after the special election win of Scott Murphy, a venture capitalist, who slid into the Hudson Valley seat left open when Kirsten Gillibrand was appointed to the U.S. Senate.