Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“This essay is dedicated to the great VC’s on my board who I am lucky to work with: Sameer Gandhi from Accel, Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed, and Kirsten Green from Forerunner. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. I pitch a lot of LPs. In the original version of his post, Andy writes. I rest my case.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

Take Resumes with a Grain of Salt—Hire for Attitude and Train for Skills Any company can offer the greatest product or service in the world, but it can only be executed by having the right people on board. For years I did my own PR, pitching my products and services to editors of magazines and producers of TV shows.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. Why buy me?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million. We had a $40 million round lined up to close in the Autumn of 2000. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. By then I was still on the board of my first company but it hadn’t yet sold (it ended up selling in 2007 to a publicly traded French company). In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Right now, it’s a bit like 2000 and the internet is about to take over everything, and the most important thing is whoever can build the best router. Cisco in 2000 was worth half a trillion dollars at its peak. It was worth more than Microsoft at the time. So, who has the largest LLM?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

If you can raise $250k, through at least 1000 donations of no more than $250 each, with a cap of $2000, you can qualify for an 8:1 match of taxpayer dollars. Basically, if you can create a groundswell of support, you’re in the game. He’s deserving of a bigger look than he’s gotten, but he’s not a big social media personality type guy.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company. For example, as an investor and board member at Uber one might conclude that I am biased to see things in a more positive light. That would only make sense.

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