TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

During his free time, he started a blog to tell his friends back home about his life out west, and also to recommend TV shows. Slowly, Mike’s Bloggity Blog became one of Canada’s premier entertainment sites, and Morrison found himself with a local newspaper column as well as regular television and radio appearances. Contributor.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. One is reminded of the famous quote often attributed Mark Twain.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

It’s one of the biggest myths in the tech industry. There is a constant thrust to create the next new, big break-through and the resultant stumbles from those who swung hard and whiffed. Hard work is, as my economics professors used to say, “necessary but not sufficient.&# Hard work. .&#

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So it is now publicly known that we have closed $150 million in our 4th fund. But now you know why I’ve had many nights away, many airports and much time on the road. But now you know why I’ve had many nights away, many airports and much time on the road. But it’s hard to know that from the press. It’s 4.50am.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

I end with notes to know from around the tech blogosphere, TC events and, if you look closely enough, personal anecdotes that often have to do with coffee and food. Ok, now onto the aforementioned essay! I’m also writing on my personal blog, if you’d like to follow along with the 1,835 other people who come to hang and be too wordy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

In his words, [in some instances] “because lots of capital is available, the company takes on the capital and that ends up resulting in no constraints on decision making and so the company decides to do five things in stead of just one.” One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

That company was Invoca, which just announced a $20 million fund raise led by Accel. At the time I pointed out: “If I had realized exits almost certainly it would be because I invested in a company that failed. Lemons ripen early, great companies take time.” 5 years ago. 5 years ago. ” Still. Since then?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Future, Andreessen Horowitz’s formal foray into tech media, is shutting down less than two years after first launching, according to Business Insider. Tech’s labor market has certainly raised many questions around the stability of certain industries and roles — and if growth can protect a company from having layoffs.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless. What is a founder to do?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about “ the politics of startups ” in which I asserted that all companies have politics, which in its purest sense is just about understanding human psychology. I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Nash didn’t reveal many details in the post or later on Twitter , saying he’ll have more to say when the company is closer to launching. It’s a good detail to know, considering that Nash has logged time at a wide variety of tech outfits over the years, making it hard to guess at whom he knows and from where.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. It’s worth a quick read. This will fail.

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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. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2022

Then, Hey Jane co-founder Kiki Freedman said that the overturn makes abortion care via mail “now likely to be the most viable form of access for most of the country.” Then, Hey Jane co-founder Kiki Freedman said that the overturn makes abortion care via mail “now likely to be the most viable form of access for most of the country.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. In the late 90′s I saw a dangerous trend creeping into the startup world, which was that companies were suddenly raising huge amounts of money too early in their existence. Rinse & repeat. This benefits you, the entrepreneur. This is total bullshit.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

I asked, "What is your experience of being be black in tech today and what can allies do to improve it?" At this moment, I'm in the process of backing three companies that have at least one female founder and I just finished a round for a black female founder in December. I will not, however, tolerate hate in anyone's direction.

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

For those following this blog and the seed market over the past decade, you may have noticed that every year, we see increases across the board — more investors, newer funds, and funds that get larger. If you’re reading this looking for data and hard numbers, charts, and footnotes, you’ll be disappointed.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

Scaling and succeeding is hard, but just to get from napkin to prototype and some users is so much less of a hurdle than it was previously. Even the one time blogging platform of choice Wordpress can, without a lot of hassles, can be manipulated to be your entire site's content management system. Don't want to learn code?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

By now you likely know that Marc Andreessen weighed in on anonymous apps in a 12-part Twitter diatribe. ” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. As the old joke goes, “on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

. “I like to think of successful brand-building as creating a company that customers would be upset to separate from their identity,” he says in an interview below. Many people in your position would be more comfortable just founding new tech companies, or investing in crypto or what-have-you. And that bugs them.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

And every great company is raising at north of a billion dollars now so I need to in order to compete.” In November of 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures coined the term “ Unicorn Club ” as it relates to billion-dollar startup companies. Why is now the right time? *. Unicorns. No, I take that back.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

We don’t need to tell you about the layoffs that are defining the tech landscape right now, concentrated particularly in late-stage companies that are struggling to raise extension rounds and grow into existing valuations. Typically, CEOs of early-stage companies are optimized for two to three years of runway.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 9, 2022

Coming from cultural revolution China where they barely had enough food to eat, they thought I was throwing away all the hard work they went through to come to America. Coming from cultural revolution China where they barely had enough food to eat, they thought I was throwing away all the hard work they went through to come to America.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

By now you will likely have read Andy Dunn’s scathing post about Venture Capitalists in which he decries the industry’s masses. They see how hard she does her job. Their data looks at tech VCs. I read Andy’s post with a knowing smile on my face. But VC is like congress. Because they know him or her.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2019

Written for EO by Chris Bray, founder and CEO of BiG Media , an innovation firm that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to increase efficiencies, reduce costs and unlock new revenue streams for content creation and distribution companies. Sorry, I’m really focused on directing now.”. And you know what I said?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. His early experience was at LogMeIn and then he went on to help Xobni, DropBox, LookOut and EventBrite to name a few companies I’m sure you’ve heard of. We were here first.”

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JULY 13, 2013

Not just because meeting Clayton was influential in shaping my thinking about markets but also because Derek Andersen (who founded Startup Grind) is such an awesome host and runs a very informative events. Last month they turned the tables on me. Here is the link to the video interview. it would make more sense than “me.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Welcome to The Interchange !

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. The reasons I have been long on YouTube specifically are very simple: YouTube now has > 1 billion uniques / month. If you’re just a content company your advantages are too small to win on the web.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Its Chicago-based founder and CEO Karl Hughes describes the firm as “a superniche content marketing production company, producing technical content for companies that want to reach software engineers.” Karl Hughes: Almost all of our clients are developer tools companies. Developers can be a tough crowd.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. And the company that helped websites publish RSS? Feedburner, founded by now-Twitter-CEO Dick Costolo.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

It’s really hard to zig when the whole world seems to be zagging. The fundamentals are different now! The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing.

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Continuations

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With technology becoming ever more powerful there is a huge premium on getting this right as the downsides now include existential risk. Second, let’s consider the “We need AI safety regulation now” camp, which again has two subtypes. One is “let regulated companies carry on” and the other is “stop everything now.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

A version of this article appeared in Fast Company. Or maybe it was because the founder left to go start a second company before the sale was complete. Whatever the final straw was, no one was surprised to see the company eventually declare bankruptcy. In this article, Manny shares his strategy for a smooth business exit plan.

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APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Make them widely available inside the company and share your most important goals with your board. My experience has proven that even some well known companies are under-whelming in this department.

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MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. What kind of deals should I be doing?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata investments rights given investors the right to invest in your future fund-raising rounds and maintain their ownership % in your company as your company grows and raises more capital. Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood.

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