I am going to go out on a limb and say that True Ventures is the first venture capital firm with its very own App. We are live in the iTunes, Android, and Blackberry App stores and have been since mid-July. I don’t suspect you will see it in the Top 10 Download Charts, but I do believe that Founders,…
Read Full Article True Ventures – There is An App For That!Om Malik wrote an exceptional blog post last evening, that beautifully captures the early days at Pier 38 for all of us at True. We’re sad to see Pier38 come to an end. We loved that zany, dirty, drafty place, and it’s where True committed to countless deals, including Urban Airship, XPD, Stocktwits, and many, many…
Read Full Article Final days at Pier 38On July 29, we wrapped up the third year of The True Entrepreneur Corps (TEC), our summer program designed to inspire and educate the entrepreneurs of tomorrow who are in college today. Our team believes in the creative power of the entrepreneur and we recognize that our society will be improved and transformed by the efforts and ideas of…
Read Full Article TEC 2011: Inspiring Young EntrepreneursBig data is certainly the new buzzword of the day. At True, we believe the trend is very real and it is hard to argue with the actual numbers. Last year, digital data created surpassed one zettabyte, five times the number from four years earlier, which itself was three million times the amount of information in all the books ever…
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