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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. Many entrepreneurs are reliant on outside funding, whether angel investors, venture capitalists or strategic investors , to keep the venture going. The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

In any given year there are about 50 venture-backed companies or so that are bought for $100 million or more. To anybody who asks my advice I repeat the same line, “I don’t know whether this party will last 6 weeks, 6 months or 18 months. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital. Union Square Ventures is an investor. Fog Creek now has 35 people.

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Austin’s Will Hurley on the city’s incredible tech rise

TechCrunch

She also covers consumer packaged goods startups, and medical tech and biotechnology ventures. He launched his latest venture, Strangeworks in 2018 and raised $4 million in seed stage capital. In 2001, for six months, Whurley left Austin to follow a girl to Las Vegas and to break into casinos as a hired hacker. Register here.

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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Both Sides of the Table

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. No gotchas. No option pool shuffle.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Edtech VC survey, 5 founder mistakes, fintech liquidity, more

TechCrunch

Here’s who she spoke to: Deborah Quazzo , managing partner, GSV Ventures. Ashley Bittner , founding partner, Firework Ventures (a future of work fund with portfolio companies LearnIn and TransfrVR). Jomayra Herrera , principal, Cowboy Ventures (a generalist fund with portfolio companies Hone and Guild Education).

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What was Nike like as a startup?

Unvalidated Learnings

Johnson, the company’s first employee, built an epistolary community of fellow runners (a forum of sorts), who, in exchange for his expert advice, would provide him with invaluable product feedback: “ Unlike me, however, most customers came to depend on Johnson’s letters. Most wrote him back. I recall one day, sitting in Wallace’s office.

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