Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

It’s the one bit of advice I find myself giving most frequently these days, “raise money at the top end of normal.&#. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. It was early 2000. I thought I’d post on one of the topics before hand. Here’s what I mean.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Thus is venture capital. Tempus Fugit.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

So when Goldman Sachs announced this week it was buying NextCapital – a fintech company that provides automated advice to corporate retirement plan participants – my ears perked up. billion in an all-stock deal that was a reflection of its continued push into consumer finance. In Q2 of 2000, that number dipped slightly to 46.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, in first quarter 2015, 55% of all American venture rounds were either seed or Series A, split almost evenly, while 19% of all rounds were Series B (the third round of financing), according to data from CB Insights. Remember the “buy low, sell high” advice they were supposed to teach you in business school?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?&#. It’s a tricky question with no clear answer. There are trade offs.

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MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Often times when companies raise “bridge” financing (this is money from internal investors. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. -

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JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. My advice to entrepreneurs is to have a sense of purpose and stick to that regardless of what you’re reading in TechCrunch or Business Insider. Ameet said, “Don’t worry, we’ll be fine, just wait for the next downturn.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2012

I was desperate to get my funding finalized to derisk my business as well as to get capital in the bank to meet our growing cash needs. 1 week later the market crash of 2000 began and the dot com market began to collapse and financings with it. And it obviously doesn’t just apply to a VC financing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Laura Lorek has lived in the Austin area since 2000, where she's been writing about established companies like Dell, NI, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Google, Meta and tech startups like Opcity, now Realtor.com, Homeaway, now VRBO, RetailMeNot, Indeed.com, Homeward, OJO Labs and others. He didn’t raise any capital for Chaotic Moon. Laura Lorek.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 17, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. Just like on the Schuylkill, there are floaters lurking just below the surface of the capital markets.

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