David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” . If they had missed it, they would have failed to return capital after fees.”.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg famously launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room at the age of 19. Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.)

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Current round: $7.0mm Series-B led by MK Capital, withClearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

In 2004, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk took what appeared to be a huge and perhaps reckless gamble. In 2004, Musk was way ahead of the curve in foreseeing the transformation of energy from fossil fuels to renewables. Finance Associate, Payment for Klook (Malyasia). Learn More. Elon Musk’s genius is battery powered.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” . If they had missed it, they would have failed to return capital after fees.”.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Now, the company has a new name, Supplant, and $24 million in venture capital financing to start commercializing its low-cost sugar substitute made from the waste materials of other plants. NEW YORK – DECEMBER 6: Packets of the popular sugar substitute Splenda are seen December 6, 2004 in New York City. ” Next steps.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Venture Financings we Discussed. Current round: $8.5mm Series-C led by Jafco Ventures with DCM , Emergence Capital, and August Capital participating. Total raised: $19mm. Read more: TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 31, 2015

Private market rounds were 14x as common as IPOs in 2014, compared to the 2004-2007 era, when IPOs were about as equally common as large private financings. As Bill Gurley wrote, “These large, high-priced private financings are the defining characteristic of this particular technology cycle.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. If you’re business has complicated accounting (like many ad network businesses) and if you’re raised enough money to warrant it – a great VP Finance is worth his/her weight in gold. Even better if he/she can double as a VP Operations & HR.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 6, 2014

Second, to benchmark GoPro’s capital needs, capital efficiency and attractiveness to investors. Founded in 2004, GoPro is about 10 years old and during the past few years has witnessed spectacular growth. One of the refrains about hardware businesses is their capital inefficiency. But GoPro bucks this trend.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 24, 2017

Founded in 2004, Fleetmatics employs about 1150 employees. Fleetmatics financed its growth early on by generating cash. And, upfront cash collections finance more inside sales hiring. This symbiotic relationship enables Geotab to acquire customers and generate revenue with greater capital efficiency than inside sales team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

He founded Boston Logic – an integrated marketing platform and online marketing services for real estate offices and agents – in 2004. Knox plans to use its new capital to continue expanding geographically and getting the word out to more people. “We Knox co-founder and CEO David Friedman is no stranger to startups.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2011

As a Brooklyn native who has never lived outside the five boroughs—and someone who left Big Finance—I feel a special kind of pride over what’s gone on here in the last six+ years. I'm all for people putting $25k to work to try something out--and if it works, having the momentum to raise more capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Ant’s delay has cost its former parent company around $60 billion in market capitalization in a single day. Ant has its roots in Alipay, an online payment service founded in 2004. Alibaba is worth around $772 billion today after the news, off from a value of around $841 billion yesterday.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. Judged his instincts, and felt it was Quigo’s time.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 3, 2014

I''ve been dolling out career advice ever since I walked into college with a paid internship in finance. When I started in early 2004, very few people were blogging--and then I watched blogging take off. Venture Capital & Technology' I seemed to know what I was doing, so lots of people asked me for help. Blogging is hard.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

healthcare system does not operate as a free marketplace with the type of open-competition that we often associate with capitalism. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Image Credits: Versatile Venture Capital (opens in a new window). First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.”. Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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