Posts Tagged ‘ money ’

The Lean Finance Model Of Venture Capital

The Lean Finance Model Of Venture Capital

The venture capital industry is going through a ton of disruptions lately. One of the better explanations I’ve heard recently of what is going on comes from Duncan Davidson, a managing partner at Bullpen Capital who gave a great talk on the subject at TechCrunch Tokyo last week. I interviewed him backstage on...

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Why Haven’t We Seen A Rollup Yet in Online Video?

Why Haven’t We Seen A Rollup Yet in Online Video?

Editor’s note : Guest contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is founder and CEO of  WatchMojo , a video publisher. Online video is booming and the are tons of small video companies across production, advertising, distribution, and technology.  Yet we have yet to see a serious attempt to roll up the industry.  The reasons, I submit,...

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Jim Breyer Doesn’t Think More IPOs Are The Answer

Jim Breyer Doesn’t Think More IPOs Are The Answer

Jim Breyer is one of the few venture capitalists in Silicon Valley who loves investing in media companies. (He was on the board of Marvel , and now is an investor and board member of Legendary Pictures , producer of such hits as The Dark Knight , 300 , and Inception —he sits...

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Are We In A Series A “Crunch”? What CrunchBase Says …

Are We In A Series A “Crunch”? What CrunchBase Says …

Remember that time the Wall Street Journal wrote an article about an influx of “start-up” companies raising seed/angel rounds and then all those companies subsequently trying to raise Series A rounds and failing hard? And then all these VCs and angels got in a fight about it , on Twitter, and on their...

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Don’t Call It A PivotPlz: PicPlz Spun Off As Mixed Media Labs Prepares Their Next Product

When Mixed Media Labs raised a $5 million round last November, it raised quite a few eyebrows. After all, the money came from Andreessen Horowitz, the VC firm which had backed Instagram . To be fair, they backed Instagram when it was still known as Burbn — before it became what is now...

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