The venture landscape changes fast. Ten years ago, few would have predicted the ubiquity of micro funds or the rise of Andreessen Horowitz or the very existence of a platform like AngelList that enables people with enough connections to become pop-up VCs. Few — though not most — see what’s coming next, too, and that’s […]
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A Slick New 401(k) Platform, From TaskRabbit Cofounder Kevin Busque
In recent years, Kevin Busque began to notice something at TaskRabbit, the outsourced jobs marketplace that he co-founded seven years ago with his wife, and TaskRabbit’s CEO, Leah. The company employs a lot of younger employees, and according to Busque (who was long the company’s VP of Technology but also tackled HR for some time), […]
How Stanford Management Co. Sees the World (Brace Yourself, Israel)
Last week, at the PreMoney Conference in San Francisco, veteran venture capitalist Heidi Roizen moderated a panel that asked institutional limited partners for their view of the world. The speakers each had unique insights, but the audience may have been particularly attuned to one – John Powers, who served as president and CEO of Stanford […]
StrictlyVC: May 8, 2014
Happy Thursday morning, everyone! We’re still working on getting the newsletter to each of you, which is a giant pain in the arse or else we just have terrible email juju. In the meantime, here’s yesterday’s edition, featuring a very personable Mike Abbott of Kleiner Perkins, in case you missed it. —– Top News in the […]
In Accelerator Wars, the Teacher Becomes the Student
Dave McClure once followed Y Combinator’s moves closely, looking to emulate parts of its structure. Now, the famed, nine-year-old tech accelerator looks to be playing catch-up with Dave McClure. This week, for example, Y Combinator announced it would start running its Startup School, a one-day networking event, in New York and London. Y Combinator, which will continue […]
Trusted Insight, the Social Network For LPs, Looks to Next Round
Trusted Insight is a four-year-old, New York-based platform that has made itself valuable to institutional investors – 100,000 of them and counting – by giving them a place to research one another, scout out new deals and trends, and connect on due diligence — all with the help of advanced algorithms and semantic analysis. Now […]