Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. I won’t belabor this – I have an investment in this space ( ad.ly ) so I’m biased. I think this classifies as a “crack filler&# and I’m not sure I would have done the investment for that reason. Finally, I HATE the name.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

Upfront VI is our latest core fund and is $400 million to invest in early stage entrepreneurs. LPs (the people who invest in VC firms) have clearly voted in favor of LA with the creation of 15+ new early-stage venture firms and the continued growth is size and team of the great larger firms that are well established.

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Gust

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Assume you have the right factors to get angel investment: experienced team, good product-market fit, growth potential, defensibility, and a reasonable shot at a successful exit. This might seem awkward on this site, suggesting that you don’t want angel investment. But angel investment isn’t for everybody.

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StartupNation

MARCH 30, 2021

Dear Founder: Congratulations for taking the plunge—for committing to work full-time on that startup concept you’ve been pursuing. As a first-time founder, you’ve probably heard lots of conventional wisdom about what makes for a great entrepreneur. To my surprise, all but one alumni founder insisted they had no regrets whatsoever.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Andy Areitio is a partner at the early-stage fund TheVentureCity , a new venture and acceleration model that helps diverse founders achieve global impact. Fundraising is distracting for founders and can even hurt their company in the early days. Founders tend to make a series of classic mistakes when raising funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Lewis is the founder and CEO of Gig Wage , a simplified fintech payroll platform built for contract workers. Black founders, and uniquely Black founders in tech, are facing insurmountable odds. Black founders need to own their resiliency and leverage the power that has resulted from their unique experiences. Contributor.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Partnering with the right co-founder is the biggest determinant of your future success. Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I firmly believe having the right co-founder(s) is the most significant determinant of startup success. A co-founder is someone you’ll practically be married to (time commitment-wise).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

I believe the middle isn’t being “gutted” but rather is being supplemented by “opportunity funds” and “growth funds” that sit side-by-side “core funds” allowing the firms to stay small and nimble while still being able to grab prorata rights of their best early-stage investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

<Small plug> – I invested in an awesome company called … awe.sm … that is a performance tracking tool that let’s you measure efficacy of channels like this (email, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc.) They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield , an inception and early-stage investor with more than 50 years of a people-first investing philosophy. Here are a few of my favorite tips for founders looking to raise capital and build a strong inception-stage company. Founder dilution and investor ownership are part of a long game.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Contributed by Madhavan Sivashankar , chief executive officer and founder, Gulf International Finance Limited. Companies in developed markets have churned out profits at a historic pace, despite massive economic dislocations like the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and the global financial crisis eight years later.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

I learned this lesson long ago – many investors wait until you’re staring at a cliff before committing whether to re-invest in you. We control our hours, our travel and our investment areas. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. I had to go there? Making bank.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. The earlier you invest the higher the chances the company won’t work out and thus you pay a lower price than later-stage investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. We spoke briefly about why.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Investors are the “who’s who” including: Steve Case, Ron Conway, Jack Dorsey, Dave Morin, Betaworks, Founder Collective, AOL Ventures. - $1 million seed round.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Not an investment philosophy “ I understand the sentiment of this post and it’s how I view AngelList (like email), but I feel like it loses a nuance about AngelList. Since I invest in lines, not dots , I worry about the rushed decision-making and over-hyping of deals. It’s a communication tool. I worry about that.&#.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

tevye2009 , Q: “can you briefly explain why it’s best to get a small valuation when getting investment.&# The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). 6: @ marklanday Q: “Do you make personal angel investments and if so what are your criteria?&#

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. What is the True Sentiment of VCs?

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Everyone knows that founders have been on a whipsaw over the past several years. That’s hard work, and founders should be commended for doing it. What should founders aim for in 2024? 7 (Please note that this isn’t investment advice from me or a16z!) So this raises the question: what now?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. Growth investors have become far more reserved when making new investments, and many are redefining how they approach valuations. It is more important than ever for founders to remain calm and be strategic.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 15, 2022

YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with Gusto co-founder and CPO Tomer London to talk about building for new customer segments and the future of embedded finance — sharing advice for startup founders and CEOs along the way. When you have a grand vision, where do you start as a founder? Choose a customer segment.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Usually, founders haven’t quit their jobs at this stage. As the entrepreneurs are hardly making any money to pay their personal bills, they devote a great deal of time and energy in making elaborate pitches for raising investment capital. Some of the common mistakes made at this stage are –.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

For example, Leading Edge Capital closed on nearly $2 billion for its sixth fund, Base10 Partners brought in $460 million for its third fund, Founders Fund secured $5 billion for two funds, Freestyle raised $130 million for its sixth fund and the list goes on and on. Overlooked Ventures co-founders Janine Sickmeyer and Brandon Brooks.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

If you have ideas for how to improve venture capital for founders, please tweet me or send me an email with the link above. Then these firms raised larger funds to invest in LBOs, but they diversified, too. In the 2000s, a wave of PE funds went public. 2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Celonis , the late stage process mining software startup, announced a $1 billion Series D investment this morning on an eye-popping $11 billion valuation, up from $2.5 billion in its Series C in 2019, quadrupling its value in just two years. Durable Capital Partners LP and T. “It could be, yeah.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Addition and Foundation Capital also invested in Stacklet’s seed round, which the company announced last August. Stacklet launches cloud governance platform with $4M seed investment. This new round brings the company’s total funding to $22 million.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

We live in a world with a stereotypical representation of what a startup founder looks like, so it’s no wonder that a large portion of the population feels underrepresented. So, why should startup founders care about attracting and retaining a diverse workforce? Myth 1: Startup founders are young . Fastest growing 0.1

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the world moves into economic head-winds and geopolitical uncertainty, European founders must get used to taking tough decisions to ensure the survival of their startups. Technology investment in Q3 is around 30% down on the same period in 2021. I’ve seen founders tempted to put off the raise waiting for things to change.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Lux Capital, known for investing in life science and frontier tech startups, is back in the market to fundraise for its latest vehicle — but this time without a dedicated late-stage entity. The fund will combine the firm’s early and late-stage investing strategies into one pool. million to the fund.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

In short, Paul Graham predicted that there would be way more startups, that they’d be cheaper to start, that new kinds of investors would fund them, that founders would be more technical, and that founders would keep control of their companies. Founders increasingly retained control of their company.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Sparked by a pair of scissors, some pantyhose and a party where founder, Sara Blakely , wanted to look her best, Spanx officially began production in 2000 and changed women’s fashion and fit forever. Sara Blakely / Spanx. Katrina Lake / Stitch Fix. Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg / theSkimm. Kendra Scott / Kendra Scott.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Many first-time founders think they know where to look first to save money or how to pivot, but as the saying goes, no plan ever survives first contact with the enemy. Investors still expect “healthy growth” Why founders need to secure 24+ months of runway. When the unexpected happens, no one knows how they will respond.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 20, 2014

In fact, I found only two books: a textbook on private equity and venture capital by HBS professor Joshua Lerner, and an out-of-print collection of 32 VC interviews called “ Done Deals ,” published in September 2000. By mid-1999, $300M was being invested in Internet companies each week. Mitch Kapor, Accel.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. But how do you do that? .

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