Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Are your investors truly passionate about what you do? Does your investor eat, sleep, breath your industry or product? So of course I want (need) to make money for my investors (LPs). His blog is even called SaaStr (a bit too close to Suster if you ask me ;-)). (he ditched that business years ago). It seems obvious.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Flippa , an online marketplace to buy and sell online businesses and digital assets, announced its first venture-backed round, an $11 million Series A, as it sees over 600,000 monthly searches from investors looking to connect with business owners. We see the future of these aggregators becoming ‘X company for apps’ or ‘X for blogs.’ ”.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article originally appeared on the PixelEdge Blog. “[The D emand: What the market wants They then reviewed the demand: Current top offerings: Customers liked the information they provided on investment, mergers, and acquisitions, as well as a list of the top investors and acquirers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

The pandemic has spurred interest in saving and investment apps around the world , especially ones geared toward newer investors. The seed funding, which was made in two closes, included participation from Saison Capital, Venturra Discovery, 1982 Ventures, 500 Startups, Nextrans, and angel investors like executives at Google and Netflix.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

These new data sources are creating high-impact tools for investors. Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. A new category of investors has emerged offering a hybrid between VC and revenue-based investment (RBI), which we call “flexible VC.”

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 18, 2023

“The inaugural MidAmerica Cup competition empowered high school students to form teams, develop a product, conduct market research, formulate financial projections, and present a comprehensive business plan to potential investors.” The team also cinched first place in the Best Business Plan and Best Pitch Presentation categories.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Now approaching its 20 th year, this statewide collegiate business plan competition is unveiling a fresh look, an exciting new award category, and a streamlined competition structure. The Entrepreneur’s Cup simulates the real-world process of researching a market, writing a business plan, and making a presentation to potential investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Chennai and San Francisco-headquartered Chargebee said on Tuesday it has raised $125 million in its Series G financing round led by Sapphire Ventures and existing investors Tiger Global and Insight Venture Partners. Some other existing investors also participated in the new round, said Chargebee, which has raised $230 million to date.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. Do these folks want to be the 100th investor chasing SaaS or do they want to define/invent new categories where they can be the thought leaders? That is, if you are someone who wishes to earn a minimum viable living being creative, what is the likelihood you’ll be able to do so?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

He had raised nearly $500,000 from investors. I mean you never know if your investors are REALLY going to keep backing you. Apple announced that they’re shutting down your category. Investor emails. Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.” Many are well known. But not sure, sure. Far fetched stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. For investors life is no different.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. I have been blogging for years – even before BothSidesofTheTable. This is classic Fred.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

While being female and being black are clearly not the same thing, they do fall into the category of "not white men", which the fundraising environment favors--but perhaps not in the way people assume. 2) Yet, the vast majority of investors would back anyone they thought could make them and their investors money. Ducks head.]

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

And I’m not an investor. As I mention I’m not an investor, just a fan. It’s true that I’m not an investor in DogVacay but I am a huge fan of the CEO, Aaron Hirshhorn and of the company and concept. I said, “This category is going to be huge. That’s a fact. I just had to tell this story.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Floodgate exists to invest in prime movers - entrepreneurs who build movements that become category defining companies - before the rest of the world believes in them. What is one thing every founder should ask themselves before walking into a meeting with a potential investor? Favorite business book, blog, podcast?

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

The decision by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to expand its definition of an “ accredited investor ” paves the way for thousands more aspiring venture capitalists and angel investors to benefit from investing in the private markets. The new rules, which took effect Dec. The new rules, which took effect Dec.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. Here are some representative rates that we’re seeing by category. Luckily most investors were more savvy. Enter phone calls.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

A huge mistake I see is that VC tells an entrepreneur no based on a set of reason that this VC felt weren’t right with the business (market size, traction to date, too many competitors, no big exits in the category or whatever easy excuses VCs have developed to politely say no) and the entrepreneur lets this get inside his or her head.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Ellison, who lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, but hails from Charleston, South Carolina, and has been an active investor on OurCrowd’s platform for over five years. This is a fascinating company in which we got involved very early, and it’s a great example of what we call crowdbuilding—how our global investor base can add value.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

These investors are all placing a bet that the biggest returns could be in manufacturing. ” There are two categories of space manufacturing in the industry to come, according to Bruey and Asparouhov and those are additive manufacturing for making products to be used in space, and manufacturing in space for terrestrial applications. .

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

But since there are millions of other companies that do not fall into this category, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provides certain limited exceptions to allow individuals to invest in non-public companies. Invested Interests'

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

million from investors, including BBG Ventures, Chelsea Clinton’s Metrodora Ventures, Emerson Collective, Beta Boom, gener8tor, Matchstick Ventures, Darrell Silver and Serena Williams. “When we first started, we were livestreaming, we had some blogs and study guides,” said Ho. Previously, Fiveable had raised more than $4.2

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. I spent a bunch of time thinking about this position — especially since Beezer is an investor in Upfront Ventures. We lived that first hand.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This is true both on the investor side and also among portfolio company management. We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media, blog posts, etc. Other investors that pay sourcing fees. Similarly, certain revenue-based finance investors also have open-access scouting programs.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

These customers leverage SecondMeasure to analyze and cross-analyze how consumers are spending their cash, but going deeper, the platform enables customers to analyze rate of growth, cohort retention, benchmark against category competitors or regional performance, and much more. That is not the case today.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

Investors will look at which angels you chose, whether old bosses invested, whether you were an EIR somewhere and did they invest, etc. Future investors will also look at whether your angels “re-upped&# if you hit a bump in the road. VCs are just one of many signals future investors at which future investors will look.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2021

could it be a blog post, or a tweet? When you’re building a company, one of your first tasks is to convince potential investors, partners, customers, and employees that your company is “real.” and why it’s better than just publishing the news on your blog?—?is They might feel like a holdover from days gone by.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Which of the 16 major start of categories in information technology will reap disproportionate share of investment dollars in 2016? And which sectors are closely guarded secrets shielded by seed investors, that may have their breakout year this year? Analytics remains an important category for both markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

We were interesting enough to be newsworthy, especially since Aaron was such a compelling spokesperson for the evolving enterprise software category, but we hadn’t attracted the same level of skepticism as our buzzier, more highly valued consumer contemporaries. Until then, Box’s narrative had been consistently up and to the right.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

What are the three most important lessons investors could pass along to first-time entrepreneurs raising money? We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. Often times when companies raise “bridge” financing (this is money from internal investors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Six leading investors assess the remote-work startup landscape. The strategy of targeted, niche advice blogs has worked well in categories that never lose importance, such as personal finance or mental wellness. “I had about 35 seconds of frustration,” he said. Work From Home is dead, long live Work From Anywhere.

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