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Venture capitalists are dying, long live VCs

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 24, 2012 | Comments

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How angels and micro-VCs are changing the funding landscape

If you want to get a sense of how early-stage investors feel they're affecting the venture ecosystem, watch this panel. At Venture Shift NY, hosted by Vator and Bullpen Capital, we brought together some high-profile and prolific investors to talk about their impact on a panel titled "How Angels and Super Angels/Micro-Cap VC Funds are Changing Stakes and Creating a ...

The new venture hit: $100M acquisitions, not $1B IPOs

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 17, 2012 | Comments

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Founder Collective, Metamorphic, ENIAC, Next View discuss at Venture Shift NY

Right after a keynote, in which Mark Suster proclaimed that everyone wants to be a f*%$ing angel, and that's making investing in the early rounds tougher, a number of newly-turned-entrepreneurs-turned-seed-stage investors went onstage to talk about how they'd differentiate themselves from one another as they pursue some kind of returns. This was the topic of discussion at Venture Shift NY, ...

David Hornik: Sh#%&t venture capitalists say

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 4, 2012 | Comments

	Venture capitalists vacation tons; have their assistants tweet for them, complain about their cereal As part of our Vator Splash SF event, David Hornik has become a regular "Late Night" host. As part of our February event, Hornik prepared a comical skit, as only Hornik could pull off, portraying venture capitalists in their true light.
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The dead zone in the venture landscape

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 30, 2012 | Comments

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VCs at RRE Ventures, First Round, NEA, Genacast, Grotech on the opportunities and challenges

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you know that the traditional VC model has been turned on its head, mainly because it has become cheaper to create and scale consumer Web companies. How has this changed the landscape for traditional VCs? To answer this, we brought together mainly old-line, traditional VCs to our Venture Shift NY event, which we ...

Top 10 Vator event panels and keynotes in 2011

by Kristin Karaoglu, December 30, 2011 | Comments

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Early-stage strategies, ReachLocal, ngmoco, Peter Thiel, Pandora lead the top 10

Did your panel or keynote make the top 10 most-viewed panel or keynote at Vator events in 2011? Here are the top 10 popular segments in 2011. Which early-stage startup strategy is the best? The average venture return over the last 10 years has been a negative 4%, said Michael Kim, founder of Cendana Capital, a venture fund that invests ...

Top 10 reasons raising capital is optimal right now

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 6, 2011 | Comments

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Late Night with David Hornik, and guests Alex Rosen, Josh Felser, Joe Kraus, Eghosa Omoigui

For our Splash events, we've introduced a new format called "Late Night with David Hornik." Faith Merino wrote a great write-up about the segment here. (Note: Hornik will be back for his Late Night segment during Splash SF this Feb 2. Register here for Early bird tickets before they sell out.) In this first episode during Splash SF this past September, the Late Night ...

Which early-stage startup strategy is the best?

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 2, 2011 | Comments

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500 Startups, AngelPad, Javelin Ventures, K-9, Cendana Capital discuss at Venture Shift

The average venture return over the last 10 years has been a negative 4%, said Michael Kim, founder of Cendana Capital, a venture fund that invests in early-stage VC funds. With that encouraging backdrop, what is the best investment strategy early-stage investors should pursue? That was the late-night panel topic discussed at Venture Shift SF at Cafe Du Nord in ...

How secondary markets created new financing options

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 5, 2011 | Comments

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Venture Shift panelists on how new liquidity opportunities have changed the VC landscape

Here's the Venture Shift panel "Money finds a way: How secondary markets have opened up new financing options." On the panel were Larry Albukerk, from EB Exchange Fund, Brian Anderson from LUMA Partners, Chris Douvos from TIFF, Jeff Bloom from Fenwick & West, Jeff Thomas from SecondMarket, Victor Hwang from Industry Ventures and Duncan Davidson from Bullpen moderated. To see ...

How angels and super angels are changing the stakes

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 29, 2011 | Comments

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At Venture Shift, angels and VCs debate the changing early-stage landscape

Here's the video of the Venture Shift panel: "How angels and super angels/micro-cap VC funds are changing the stakes and making a new ecosystem" On the panel were Geoff Ralston, of Imagine K12 and a prolific angel, having invested in 47 startups, Jeff Clavier from SoftTech VC, Mike Levit from Founder's Den, Neal Hansch from Rustic Canyon, and Ezra Roizen ...

Has the traditional VC been forced to pivot?

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 22, 2011 | Comments

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At Venture Shift, VCs from Kleiner, Mayfield, First Round, August Capital, True Ventures

Here's the video of the Venture Shift panel: "Has the traditional VC industry been forced to pivot by the rise of angels, super angels, incubators, etc?" On this panel, we had Randy Komisar from Kleiner Perkins Caufields & Byers, Phil Black from True Ventures, Raj Kapoor from Mayfield, Rob Hayes from First Round Capital, Howard Hartenbaum from August Capital and ...

No correlation between secondary market and bubble

by Ronny Kerr, July 25, 2011 | Comments

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Panel of financial and legal experts at Venture Shift offer perspective on booming second markets

"Money finds a way: How secondary markets have opened up new financing options." That was the title of the second panel at Venture Shift, the investor-centric startup event hosted by Vator last Wednesday in San Francisco. Moderated by Bullpen Capital managing director Duncan Davidson, the panel weaved through a discussion of how secondary markets like SecondMarket and SharesPost are affecting ...

Angels meet a need the VC industry couldn't

by Faith Merino, July 22, 2011 | Comments

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A Venture Shift panel discusses the disruption of the VC industry and why angels are here to stay

In his introductory remarks at Wednesday night’s Venture Shift event in San Francisco, Bullpen Capital managing director Paul Martino pointed out the irony of the fact that venture capital is grounded on the concept of investing in disruptive new industries and technologies, but the venture capital industry itself has remained largely undisturbed for the last several decades. Now, with angels, ...

Getting angels to open your email: there's a secret

by Ronny Kerr, July 20, 2011 | Comments

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At Venture Shift: super and mediocre angels, entrepreneurs and VCs discuss the changing ecosystem

Kicking off the first-ever Venture Shift, hosted by Vator and Bullpen Capital at the Cafe du Nord in San Francisco, was a panel of investors of all shapes and sizes discussing the changing VC landscape in the face of a growing number of angels and micro-cap VC funds. On the super angel side is Jeff Clavier from SoftTech VC, pictured ...

The bubble: It's all the super angels' fault

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, June 21, 2011 | Comments

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VCs from Blumberg, Rustic Canyon, Walden Venture Capital, DFJ Frontier & CrossCut at Splash LA

At Splash LA, the late-night entertainment was the venture capital panel, with Bruce Taragin, a partner at Blumberg Capital, moderating more like a late-night talk show host. His performance had one of the panelists ask Bruce what he was drinking. At which Bruce replied, "Water." The panelists included Neal Hansch of Rustic Canyon, Larry Marcus of Walden Capital, Brian Garrett ...

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