Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded. We were unprepared. I acknowledge it was a mistake.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

I read Andy’s post with a knowing smile on my face. After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. But VC is like congress. It’s easy to hate it en masse yet many people love their local congressman.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

If it sounds odd that a Series B would be so much smaller than the Series A, that’s in part because that previous round was a mix of debt and equity: the company had raised very little since being founded in 2000 and was profitable. This all-equity round is being led by Hiro Capital, with past backer Insight Partners also participating.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Nor is distributed computing a new concept: it’s the basis of a lot of peer-to-peer architectures such as those devised early on by the likes of BitTorrent, and it’s equally something that has been taken up by the blockchain community. 6 investors on 2021’s mobile gaming trends and opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

When I came out of college LA Law was one of the most popular shows on TV and made being a lawyer sexy, so most of my peers made that career choice. They are frustrated by the past decade of subpar returns for the sector. The most recent report to weigh in on the troubles of the industry was produced by the esteemed Kauffman Foundation.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 30, 2020

Traditionally, corporations that invest in innovation during a crisis outperform peers by up to 30% during recovery, a recent McKinsey report reveals. The previous three recessions (2008, 2000-1, and 1991) were followed by spikes of automation. Then came Covid-19, which has accelerated tech adoption like never before.

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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. Raising money is hard. And when you’re relatively new to the process it’s easy to be confused by the process. There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. Of course much of it is conflicting.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

Kathryn Garcia wants to be Mayor of New York City. No, I mean, she actually wants to do the job. It’s not a platform for her to promote any experiments. It’s not something she’s doing because that’s the next logical step in a political ladder. It’s not an interesting career change for someone who made it rich doing something else.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

With 7 billion people on the planet today, there are more than 6 billion mobile subscriptions, up from just 720 million in 2000. We collaborate using Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, Yammer, Skype, GoToMeeting, Fuze and hundreds of other tools not available to the last generation of whiteboard, personal meeting or teleconference users.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We’re launching our own scout program, and want to benchmark compensation and structure against our peers. The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. But how do you do that? . How to find a job as a VC scout. How to get a job in venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The reality is that cryptocurrencies can be both and can be liberating and corrupting at the same time. So I’m going to try and do a single sitting riff of how I’ve viewed the topic as I’ve watched the cheerleaders & naysayers from the sidelines. It’s pretty tough to have a view on cryptocurrency if you don’t have a history of currency.

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