1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dave Hornik of August Capital (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: One thing that I find very annoying of what venture capital allows entrepreneurs to do is ignore fundamentals. I think there is a very bad habit in venture-funded companies of ignoring fundamentals and delivering services at rates that are not sustainable. What are your thoughts on that? Dave Hornik: It’s bad investing. All

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dave Hornik of August Capital (Part 4)

Dave Hornik: In the venture-backed world, there have been very few apps that have turned into big interesting things. There are big games that have gotten very large. Those are tricky businesses because while I’m currently still obsessed with Candy Crush, eventually you get tired of the game and stop playing. I am actually am

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dave Hornik of August Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Is domain knowledge a big part of your process? Dave Hornik: It’s a part. There are two founders in a company called WePay. I wrote a blog post on Venture Blog about this. It talked about getting credibility if you have none. If you are a 20-year-old who’s building a business in a

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dave Hornik of August Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let me turn the question around. If somebody came to you with an idea, give us some insight into your process of how you analyze and frame the idea. We can do this for some of your investments that have turned out really well but when they came to you, that was not

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Dave Hornik of August Capital (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Dave Hornik, August Capital was recorded in December 2014.  Dave Hornik, General Partner, August Capital, as some of you may know, shocked the industry years ago by being the first VC to start blogging.

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Deal Radar 2008: Mimosa Systems

Mimosa Systems has designed a solution to archive and manage email, attachments, IMs and files so that companies can easily access historical communication.

Deal Radar 2008: VideoEgg

VideoEgg is a web based publishing service that allows users to format and publish video content from any device onto the web. Three Yale students?Matt Sanchez, Kevin Sladek and David Lerman? started VideoEgg in 2005 to build an easier way to edit, post and share videos online. The three had won a Yale sponsored contest

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Deal Radar 2008: PayCycle

PayCycle provides online payroll services for small businesses and for the accounting professionals who serve them. Their mission is to make paper-based payroll obsolete. Using a unique Do-It-With-You model, they guide users through the entire payroll procedure online – from paychecks to W-2s. The company has highly experienced professionals who have previously developed products like

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