TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010. She is also on the board of Nordstrom and previously served on the boards of Dollar Shave Club and Bonobos.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. Finance where needed. Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. But I guess you could say the same about VC.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC. Gabriel Scheer — Elemental Excelerator.

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MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x We knew better than to start funding raising in August, when larger VC firms have a harder time assembling full decision teams – so in August we would plan and September we would commence.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

What is the True Sentiment of VCs? I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” This is how VCs feel. Now for every dollar a VC raises $2.50

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NOVEMBER 7, 2009

I’m sure I’ll spark the ire of some VC’s for saying so, but there is certainly such a thing as black-out days in venture capital. It is also very hard to raise VC from July 15 – September 7th. (you The VC process is almost universal in how it works across firms. Many VC partners take 2-3 (4?)

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

Box had just 50 employees and was hitting an inflection point when I joined in 2009, so there was far more work to do than people to do it. The first was in July of 2014, when we made the unusual move of raising and announcing another round of private financing while on file to go public. Two additional moments stand out to me.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

.” I applaud all efforts by people to take on this issue and especially be Adeo who – let’s be honest – was really the first champion of trying to make the VC world more transparent by launching TheFunded, which didn’t exactly endear him to VCs initially. They’ll get priced soon enough by a VC.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

We report that “this is the largest decentralized finance hack to date.”. Startups and VC. The company has been around since 2009 and just launched a new set of tools. Europe startups are having a good year so far : We’ve written about a slowdown in venture-backed deals in different regions, including the U.S.,

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MARCH 6, 2011

I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. Let’s be clear: AngelList doesn’t scare a single VC I know. But it’s not cutting VCs out. It is additive.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. So backing up on how healthcare is financed, let’s say you got a plan with basically no deductible, so you’ve got first dollar coverage.

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JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. ” They said, “You’re a serial entrepreneur.”

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

She wants to figure out how to finance the billions of dollars in much-needed NYCHA repairs. After selling Manhattan GMAT in 2009, he started Venture for America, which aimed to create 100,000 new U.S. She wants to field complaints about flooded streets. Bike lanes. Property taxes. Charter schools. jobs by 2025.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

I ran a team of 14 people (12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk … both of whom were fluent in Japanese) who produced an Internet strategy for the board of Sony. My first corporate job was at First Interstate Bank where I worked in Corporate Finance. I got to experience much of the local culture and customs.

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