Tag: Finance
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I didn’t need the money when I started this job. So why do I invest in startups? For the last 2.5 years, I’ve spent my days meeting founders and investing in early stage tech startups. Any payday is ten years away — but the fun of angel investing goes way…
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If you’re starting a venture fund, you want to raise as much as you can, right? Not according to Founders Fund’s Brian Singerman. “Raise as small of a fund as you can in order to just crush it, because then you can write your ticket for a number of funds.…
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Two and a half years into my angel investing experiment, some of my companies are doing great, and others are struggling. But I have a trick that gooses my returns, big time. Big Bucks, No Whammies! I’m a true believer in every company I invest in. At the moment I…
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I had never seen a startup ship this fast. Almost every day, these guys were releasing a new feature. Now, their hard work was beginning to pay off… Product Velocity in Action This summer, I invested in a company called Micro1. They connect companies with top engineers using AI. Founder…
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As skyscrapers stand empty, a crisis is brewing in commercial real estate. The amount of distressed CRE hit the highest level in 10 years, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The value of distressed US commercial real estate neared $80 billion in the third quarter, its highest level in…
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It should’ve been the trade of a lifetime. Instead, Carl Icahn’s bet against shopping malls has cost him $742 million — and counting. The Big Short 2.0 Reporters called it the Big Short 2.0. In 2019, the hedge fund billionaire placed a massive bet that the growth of e-commerce would…
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Startupland is all about getting big, fast. But for venture funds, smaller is better. Funds below $250 million have outperformed larger funds significantly in recent years. Smaller funds delivered comparable or better performance in most periods, according to Pitchbook data going back to 2017. Twilight of the Megafunds? The boom…
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New York pulled neck and neck with the Bay Area as a startup hub in Q3. The Big Apple inked venture deals at a blistering pace, closing 403 to the Bay Area’s 515, according to a new report from Pitchbook. The Beast from the East Before COVID, running a startup…
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Early stage startups in New York continued to slog through the downturn in Q3. Average seed round size fell 16% from Q2, according to a new report from Primary Venture Partners. It’s Not the Summer Slump The funding market is highly seasonal. There are two big fundraising seasons — spring…
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Venture funding continued to fall in Q3, according to a new report from Pitchbook. VC funding was down 63% from the peak 2 years before, with just $73 billion closing in the latest quarter. It’s Bad, And It’s Getting Worse Funding fell even from Q2’s low level. Q3 funding was…
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Tremendous 