This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In her decision last week on the Epic vs Apple case, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers wrote this: I am not a lawyer, but I read that to say that apps that use crypto rails for payments cannot be blocked by Apple anymore. If so, that is a decision of enormous consequences for the crypto sector and yet another opening for it. That is so f **g awesome.

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Tucker Advisors

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Are Insurance Companies Safe? By Sam Deleo Tucker Advisors Senior Content Specialist/Editor. Follow Follow Follow Follow Follow Follow. They have been called the debt managers of the world. But just how solvent and safe are insurance companies? Shortly after The Great Recession began unraveling in 2008, many people feared insurance companies would suffer the same fate as investment banks like Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns, Wachovia and Washington Mutual.

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Indigo Marketing Agency

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

If you’re a financial advisor, you probably know that creating consistent content is key to increasing your online presence and generating referrals. But when it comes to your blog, what should you write about? Every time I meet an advisor who hasn’t done much marketing in the past, one of the first questions they ask is, “What should I post on my blog?

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H.I.G. Growth Partners

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Contact: Danielle Qi Managing Director dqi@HIGgrowth.com H.I.G. Growth Partners 500 Boylston Street 20 th Floor Boston, MA 02116 P: 617-262-8455 F: 617-262-1505 www.HIGgrowth.com BOSTON – September 28, 202 1 – H.I.G. Growth Partners (“H.I.G.”), the dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, is pleased to announce the completion of a strategic investment in GLD, LLC (“GLD” or the “Company”), a leading, digitally native jewelry, accessories, and apparel ecommerce brand in the

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ClearMoney

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The following is provided by Dimensional Fund Advisors. We’ve learned a lot about investing over the past 60 years, a period that has seen many breakthroughs in the world of finance. What we know comes from studying public markets and is grounded in serious academic research. The lessons are clear: Investing in markets is an excellent plan for meeting long-term goals, like maximizing your retirement income.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I have written about my love for NYC’s Citibike service many times. This will be one more. Yesterday I left the USV office at the end of the day and hopped onto a Citibike E-Bike at the brand new kiosk that has been installed in the “no cars” section of Broadway between 23rd and 21st. I rode that E-bike all the way to Central Park West and 81st Street to get to the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

I used to ride a Vespa around NYC. I rode it to work and back for about ten years, from roughly 2003 to 2013. I stopped riding it when Bloomberg’s Traffic Enforcement people starting towing it when it was parked between cars on the street (something I had been doing since I started riding it). A few visits to the tow pound will do that to you.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

My friend Mike Masnick , founder and leader of Techdirt , is crowdfunding a new paper on NFTs. I backed the project just now with 0.1 ETH and you can do the same here.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Yesterday I wrote about NYC’s Citibike system , which I love, and said this: There should be financial rewards for taking a bike from a kiosk that is completely full or nearly full and returning to a kiosk that is empty or nearly empty. There should also be a financial reward for docking an E-Bike in a kiosk where there are no E-Bikes or very few.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Back in 2005 Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink that was about how our subconscious allows us to make fast decisions that are often as good or better than slow considered decisions. I was talking to someone yesterday evening about how the venture capital business has changed over the last decade and I explained that we used to have weeks, if not months, to make our investment decisions and now we have days or if we are lucky a week or two.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Our portfolio company Mirror has been using a “game mechanic” called The Write Race to onboard users to the Mirror service. Mirror is something between a blogging platform, a crowdfunding platform, and a community platform, built for the crypto sector. Mirror is built on decentralized protocols and is a web3 version of all of those things and more.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

At USV, we have a fairly narrow thesis that sets out what we want to invest in, but all of us work across all of our thesis areas. We see ourselves as generalists not specialists. In an environment when everything is moving so fast, that can be challenging, as I wrote about on Tuesday. But there are also great benefits to working this way. As a team, we benefit from working together on everything versus having silos within our partnership and firm.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I backed this project to fund a creator space and coffee shop in Williamsburg Brooklyn this morning. As many companies make the decision to move to hybrid and remote workforces, we will need more of this kind of space to work in. I am excited to see entrepreneurs stepping in and filling that role. And I like to support them when they do. Email readers can see the video here.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I wrote in my 60th birthday post that my late career mantra is less hustle more conviction. It has been working for me and has kept me in the game. But there are times, usually after an opening emerges , when a market moves so fast it is hard to stay on top of it all. I don’t worry about missing out. That’s part of the venture capital business.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

I just backed this project to support a festival of street musicians in NYC in late October. Street bands have been picking up the slack for the last year in NYC, performing for outside diners and more throughout the city. This festival celebrates them and puts them front and center. Email readers can see the video here.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I have been doing a bunch of large group in-person meetings in the last few weeks and I must say that it feels great to be doing these large group meetings in person. There is a different energy in the room than on the screen. In order to make everyone comfortable meeting like this, the way these meetings typically happen is everyone provides a proof of vaccination and everyone gets a covid test within 24 hours of the meeting.

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Tucker Advisors

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

5 Financial Advisor Branding Tips You Can Implement Today. By Jordan Collins Tucker Advisors Senior Digital Marketing Specialist. Follow Follow Follow Follow Follow Follow. Table of Contents . Click the links below to jump to a client appreciation event page section specific to your needs. Create a professional email signature. Connect your offline materials to your online presence.

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Tucker Advisors

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Indexed Annuities: The New Retirement Pensions? By Sam Deleo Tucker Advisors Senior Content Specialist/Editor. Follow Follow Follow Follow Follow Follow. Defined-benefit plans. Those of us who are older might remember them better as “pensions,” but in 2021 they seem about as common as a rotary phone. (Sorry, but we don’t have time to explain what that is.).

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