A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 10, 2020

This is the fourth funding friday blog post in which I’ve suggested good causes to contribute to during this pandemic. That way they will be able to track the supporters who came via this blog post. March 20th – restaurant workers. March 27th – health care protective gear.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

According to the official Shiba Inu developers' blog, "Shibarium is introducing a transformative token burning mechanism" that's "designed to reduce token supply strategically, potentially increasing the token's value and benefiting its ecosystem." Does it really matter which financial firm gets the approval first, though?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2025

A series of videos on Google's blog show an upcoming version of Gemini 2.0, Waymo also recently finished a funding round that values the company at $45 billion, making it an important asset to Alphabet's AI future. the company's AI agent, in what the company says will help bring about the "agentic era."

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 3, 2024

trillion A recent blog article from The Fed explains that between March 2020 and August 2021, Americans built up an extra $2.1 In a country where people are known for being spendthrifts, where many people struggle to build up a decent emergency fund, Americans saved an extra $2.1 Excess savings" during the pandemic: $2.1

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 16, 2020

That project was funded and is over now. The video does a great job of showcasing what Westbeth is and so I am embedding it here on the blog. Earlier this week, I backed a photobook project on Kickstarter to document many of the artists who live there. If you are reading this in email you can go here and watch the video.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 28, 2024

Heavy spending on AI xAI, the AI start-up founded by Elon Musk, announced on Sunday it had raised $6 billion in its latest funding round. In a subsequent post on X (formerly Twitter), Musk said the series B funding round valued xAI at $18 billion.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post that Gemini "represents one of the biggest science and engineering efforts we've undertaken as a company." It has the funds to overcome potential headwinds and heavily invest in the industry. Data by YCharts. It's too early to know Apple's long-term AI plans.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Alphabet Alphabet is no stranger to AI, with CEO Sundar Pichai saying in a blog post earlier this year that the tech giant was seven years into its journey as "an AI-first company." The company has the funds and brand recognition to overcome potential headwinds and flourish in AI over the long term.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Boost your emergency fund Data from SecureSave shows that most Americans don't have enough cash on hand to cover an unplanned $500 expense. Boosting your emergency fund could make it so you're not forced to reach for a credit card the next time an unplanned bill arises.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 28, 2024

An S&P 500 index fund has long been touted by Warren Buffett as his favorite investment for those who don't have the time to study individual stocks closely. Last week, the S&P 500 index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) , composed of the 500 largest U.S. companies by market cap, hit yet another all-time high, reaching $5,341.88

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 8, 2021

Today my partner Albert talks about one of them on the USV blog. Over the last few months, USV has raised a climate fund. Our thesis for this fund is: The USV Climate Fund invests in companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis. Each one has a fund associated with it.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

In a blog post released early last year, Microsoft described just a few of the capabilities of its 365 Copilot: "Copilot jump-starts your creativity in Word, analyzes data in Excel, designs presentations in PowerPoint, triages your Outlook inbox, summarizes meetings in Teams -- whether you attended or not -- and so much more."

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

Many people don’t know they are eligible," mRelief said in a recent blog post. If one member of the household is 60 or over or has a disability, they can still qualify for SNAP with $4,250 in funds. Others choose not to apply due to stigma or the long enrollment process." There are various other requirements.

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Investment Writing

MAY 7, 2024

Check out the five-step process in my blog post on “ 5 steps for rewriting your investment commentary ”! Daryn Dodson, managing director of Illumen Capital, shared the startling finding that as black fund managers outperform, they face more bias and misallocation. Bookmark my blog, and visit it on the first Tuesday of every month!

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Well, I missed something in the data that was subsequently reported on by PitchBook , one of the authors of the report: Venture funding for female founders has hit its lowest quarterly total in three years. The third quarter total also amounts to a 48% drop in funding from Q2, when female founders received $841 million across 132 deals.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

If you've got $1,500 available that isn't needed for monthly bills, to pay down short-term debt, or to bolster an emergency fund, you might consider investing it in two great stocks that can grow that initial investment into a real long-term nest egg. And it's not just embedded in one place, it's embedded throughout the entire product.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 27, 2021

Last fall, USV raised two new venture capital funds from our loyal and supportive investors. We announced the new climate fund on January 8th and I blogged about it here. And so we did that yesterday on the USV blog and I tweeted about it. "we … We publish our investment memos as blog posts.

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AUGUST 16, 2024

Blogging/affiliate marketing The average affiliate marketer makes around $82,000 per year writing articles, posting on social media, or recording videos. The problem is, affiliate marketing and blogging jobs aren't passive at all. Verdict: Passive if you hire a property management company, but also requires large start-up costs.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2024

The decision to fund a company is a combination of a lot of human factors—an assessment of one group of humans by another group of humans, fraught with apples-to-oranges comparisons. Today, I want to write about how to measure how likely you are to get funded, especially when compared to other companies. Sorry, you can’t.

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Cobalt

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

It’s an interesting trend to follow as investment in private funds in China has likely overtaken public investment as the country’s public rate of return has slowed to other developed-market economy levels. This blog post is for informational purposes only.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 2, 2021

I wrote a blog post last fall asking for advice for headphones that don’t go into my ear and allow me to hear ambient noise around me. I got a ton of responses and that led me to bone-conducting headphones. I have been using AfterShokz bone conducting headphones for the last six months and they work well.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 30, 2021

I thought I’d blog about one of the projects we backed today. One of the many things I love about Kickstarter is when a friend backs a project, I am alerted. My friend Kirk went on a binge yesterday and backed a half dozen photo book projects and I followed him on that binge. NYC is many things, and one of them is a beach town.

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Sara Grillo

APRIL 19, 2024

” I’m going to answer that question in this blog about financial advisors stealing money and how to protect yourself. But here are some resources you may want to grab before you read the blog. I wrote a bunch of consumer advocacy blogs here to protect people from all the BS. The client must make this designation.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The Cleveland Bakers and Teamsters Pension Fund alleged that Amazon "acted in bad faith," yielding to "conflicts of interest," and as a result, overpaid for its launch contracts by "hundreds of millions of dollars" by refusing to work with SpaceX on Project Kuiper.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Fund,” the SEC wrote. More than shocking” Former analyst at the Caisse and author of the Pension Pulse blog on pension plans, Leo Kolivakis said he was stunned by the content of the SEC complaint. It’s more than shocking,” he wrote on his blog. They even allegedly lied to internal investigators and Azure lawyers.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And as a result, the company's roots in inbound marketing remain a component of its success, since this approach galvanizes customers to seek out businesses through informative content, including newsletters and blog posts, rather than more traditional and expensive marketing methods, such as advertising. Hubspot generated Q2 FCF of $59.6

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

And I've learned a little something from every job I've had, every book and blog I've read, and every financial experience I've had along the way. He said to just keep investing in the broad stock market through the S&P 500 index and other diversified index funds. I get to work with fun, brilliant, talented, hilarious people.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 5, 2021

There has been this narrative about investing in VC funds that you have to get into the top quartile (25%) or possibly the top decile (10%) in order to generate good returns. Half of all venture funds outperform the stock market which is the benchmark most institutions measure VC funds against.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

This blog post is not about debating if "enough" diverse founders get funding--whatever that might mean. So if you're a super early stage with just a prototype, you might not think that a VC fund is the right fit for you--so you wind up at an angel group. Everyone says they fund people in their network. It happens.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It's safe to say that most new small businesses begin without the ideal amount of funding or resources. Be strategic with your spending Even a bootstrapped new business needs some funding. Start a blog, create how-to videos, do TikToks, or offer free webinars on topics related to your business. And if they did it, so can you.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 20, 2020

I wrote a blog post on March 12th called Open For Business and thought I would return to the topic. David Kelnar sent me a blog post he wrote addressing some of these trends this morning and I saw this chart in it. But our experience doesn’t match that scorn. From what I see, it has shrunk a bit, but not cut in half.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

As reported by the Thumbtack blog , the average annual cost to maintain a single-family house rose by 8.5% Make regular contributions to a home maintenance fund Experts recommend saving in the neighborhood of 1% of your home's value every year to cover maintenance costs, but you might want to save more. between Q2 2022 and Q2 2023.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Moreover, you should set aside enough cash to cover a few months' worth of expenses as an emergency fund. equity funds, an eye-popping 90% of domestic funds over the past decade lost to the S&P Composite 1500 (a broad market index whose performance mostly tracks the S&P 500).

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Integrity Financial Planning

DECEMBER 5, 2022

On their surfaces, index funds and mutual funds may seem interchangeable. However, there are many key distinctions that separate an index fund from a mutual fund – distinctions that may be crucial to your portfolio of retirement investments. The Breakdown of Index Funds. The Mutual Fund Difference.

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Cobalt

JANUARY 22, 2025

Private Equity Performance: Large Strategies Versus Funds of Funds, Co-Investments, and Secondaries In private equity, the large strategies of buyouts, venture capital, credit, and real estate naturally grab the headlines as the biggest players in the industry. This blog post is for informational purposes only. for the subset.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

However, if you need funds to get started, consider taking out a business loan. Some coaches, like Tori Dunlap, write books, publish blogs, and host a podcast. With that in mind, let's look at five business ideas that solve everyday problems that many Americans face. Note: Most of these business ideas have lower start-up costs.

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JUNE 30, 2023

The updates are followed by a rush of trades in index-tracker stock funds, often resulting in one of the highest trading volumes of the year. Its gains arrived later in the week despite complete radio silence in terms of business news, conference presentations, or management's blog posts.

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