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The Next New Thing: Women VCs

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 […]

Filed Under: Angels, Fundraising, Investment Opportunities Tagged With: 500 Startups, CrunchBase, diversity, gender, Jon Callaghan, Monique Woodard

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), […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: 500 Startups, BoxGroup, Guideline Technologies, Kevin Busque, Leah Busque, Lerer Hippeau, NEA, Red Swan Ventures, SV ANgel, Taskrabbit, XFund

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 […]

Filed Under: Fundraising, Investment Opportunities Tagged With: 500 Startups, Heidi Roizen, John Powers, PreMoney Conference, Stanford Management Company

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 […]

Filed Under: Morning Summary Tagged With: 500 Startups, Dave McClure

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 […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Firm Dynamics Tagged With: 500 Startups, Dave McClure, Sam Altman, Y Combinator

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 […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: 500 Startups, Alex Bangash, Data Collective, Founders Fund, Morado Ventures, Real Ventures, Rothenberg Ventures, RRE Ventures, Trusted Insight

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