Josh Koppelman

“It's as easy as going to WordPress and starting up your own blog and, You know, you could create a blog and start to express your thoughts on, on startup companies and, you know, that space so that when you do reach out to say a Gary Vaynerchuk or a Mark Cuban…”

“I think Josh Koppelman is an investing genius, doesn't get as much of the credit as most LPs think he's a genius, and I think he is as well.”

“Josh truly innovated, and his For lack of a better word, early stage option buying model. I don't know exactly the right phrase to use it, but to basically say, I'm going to let these companies fail fast and write small checks to them. It was perhaps the singl…”

“Josh Koppelman, who had just started First Round Capital, had decided when he saw the news of the takeover attempt, he wanted to see if there's anyone at Yahoo who is sort of loose in the saddle and maybe thinking about joining a startup or starting a company.…”

“Because he had been an entrepreneur. He could challenge Founders on their premises from a base of experience, and also because when he did so, he didn't do it in a way that the founder would have a hard time, except he'd never made the founders defensive. He c…”

“I credit Josh Koppelman and First Round Capital for really starting that movement, and that's gone from 20 to 50 to a hundred million dollar size funds, and then we've also seen the advent of the larger funds, such as NEA, and I think what you've really seen i…”

“I think it's very hard to kind of conservative your way to success in this business.”

“Fund size dictates the level that, the amount of market cap it takes. It's a Josh Koppelman thing from ages ago, you know, the Venture Arrogance Index, whatever, right? The bigger the fund, the bigger the deal it has to be to make it work.”