1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Devdutt Yellurkar of CRV (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What happened? She left to go to Cisco? Devdutt Yellurkar: She built the company and the company got acquired by Cisco. It was a massive exit. She is now part of Chuck Robin’s executive team. Sramana Mitra: What is the name of the company? Devdutt Yellurkar: It’s called Accompany. Sramana Mitra: Tell us

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Devdutt Yellurkar of CRV (Part 4)

Devdutt Yellurkar: I came across this company in Copenhagen. At that time, Twitter had just launched. We were one of the first investors in Twitter. Twitter Search had just launched. I went and searched on Twitter for sentiment around Zendesk. All I found was just pure love. Everybody was saying very positive things about it.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Devdutt Yellurkar of CRV (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Contrarian thinking is what builds the defensibility. Just to counter your point about what people are writing about, we have podcasts and roundtables. We’ve had hundreds of investors come and discuss their investment thesis the same way you are doing. It’s actually interesting that some are willing to take the velocity risk as

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Devdutt Yellurkar of CRV (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I’ve known George Zachary for a long time. When I started One Million by One Million, he was one of the people who wanted to invest. I’ve had interactions with CRV for many years. What is the current fund size? Devdutt Yellurkar: Fund 17 is a $600 million fund. Sramana Mitra: What check

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Devdutt Yellurkar of CRV (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 Devdutt Yellurkar was recorded in July 2018. Devdutt Yellurkar, General Partner at CRV, discussed his investment principles. It was an excellent discussion! Sramana Mitra: The first thing I’d like to do is

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406th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Devdutt Yellurkar, CRV

Devdutt Yellurkar, General Partner at CRV, who discussed his investment principles. It was an excellent discussion!

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: George Zachary, General Partner, Charles River Ventures (Part 4)

By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: What is your biggest investment success to date? George: I am one of the three original investors on Twitter; I’m sure that will work out well. And I’m an investor in a company called Yammer, which is becoming the Facebook of enterprise and which is going to be showing

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Quickstart: CRV’s Seed Strategy

Charles River Venture’s announcement yesterday of offering $250k micro-loans to entrepreneurs, generated a lot of discussion: Techcrunch Don Dodge Paul Kedrosky Stowe Boyd Fractals of Change Fred Wilson … The list goes on. I had a few conversations with friends in the venture business, and asked them whether they were going to start a similar

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