TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, to weigh in on what we are seeing, and while they’re trying to make sense of things, too, they noted a couple of things that could impact the velocity of deal-making that we’ve been seeing. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 13, 2023

Image: Unsplash I was an accidental entrepreneur, unexpectedly managing to grow a business for over 20 years from the kitchen table. When I took up writing and started interviewing other entrepreneurs for my books, I found that meant I had a lot of knowledge but not always the right tags to put on what I had been doing. Remember Nick?

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Martino founded Bullpen in 2010 with a focus on post-seed, pre-Series A startups, and he led the fund’s investments in companies like FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. This geographic distinction is now less about actual geography and more about mentality and style of investing of these types of firms.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The right coaching and a strong network can help many entrepreneurs land a sizable seed round, but that money reflects investor confidence, not market demand. “We’ve seen that all before … what’s new-ish (at least since 2001) is the massive overhang of growth investments that will take startups years to grow into,” he wrote.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

One of the most difficult things to do as a first time entrepreneur is to get to know the investors you might be working with if you accept money. He got into the industry through the same traits required for entrepreneurs – persistence & resiliency. This lasted from about 2001-2004. Venture Financings we Discussed.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. It’s like we need a finance 101 course for entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Melas-Kyriazi will be based in the firm’s San Francisco office and focus on seed and Series A investments in emerging fintech and commerce companies — two core areas of focus for the firm. More than half of our investing dollars go to work in those two categories. Since BCV’s first fund in 2001, the firm has invested over $4.5

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The VC industry has different segments in it that have different fund sizes, different investment amounts and different risk / return expectations. These days that’s not the case and it’s a great outcome for entrepreneurs and for innovation. If you invest it in startups you’re a VC professional money manager.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Yoon founded a seed fund, Forest Ventures focusing in automotive sector and was an investment director at SAIC capital, one of the leaders in China’s automotive industry. Before SAIC, she led the Corporate Venture Group at Maxim Integrated, where she led multiple strategic technology acquisitions and venture investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. So here is what I have been telling entrepreneurs privately for the past 6 months. What a bubble means for each entrepreneur. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe that.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (i.e. Related: A Practical Guide to Diversity for Startups and Entrepreneurs. There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. businesses that were started during a recent eight-year period (2007 to 2014). Steve Jobs?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

First, I would say that most entrepreneurs do almost no reference checks or at least do them very informally. In fact, they will think better of you because you’re demonstrating that you’re the kind of thorough person that they wanted to invest money into in the first place. For some reason most entrepreneurs do.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multistage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever and Outschool). In other news: Extra Crunch Live, a series of interviews with leading investors and entrepreneurs, returns next month with a full slate of guests. yourprotagonist.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. on the entrepreneur side of the table) when I raised at too high of a price. This is wrong.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. I later learned that they were a spin out from an investment bank. We have invested heavily in this. People said, “invest more.” Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. That next round of investment is proving difficult. Resilience is one of the tell tale signs of an entrepreneur. It’s a gritty existence.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. I’m certain that if you look at every single one of the entrepreneurs who’ve gone on to build big, enduring businesses they were unfundable once too.&#.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Goalsetter launched in 2019 out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator. Founded by Tanya Van Court, who lost over $1 million in the 2001 bubble burst, the platform teaches financial literacy to children of all ages, helping them learn economic concepts, lingo and the principles of financial health. ” Goalsetter raised $2.1

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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. Partners make investment decisions. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. Already invested in one of my key competitors? Do they have money to invest? Meet in person.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Click below to invest. No, we are not going back to the future As we ride the 2021 market roller coaster through wreckage and recovery, accompanied by a raging bull market in tech stocks, some people are wondering whether we might be re-living the dreadful dot-com boom and bust of 2000-2001. Click here to see the technology in action.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

In Austin’s tech world, there’s an entrepreneur everyone knows by one name: Whurley. “Whurley” is the Unix username for serial tech entrepreneur Will Hurley, and it’s his brand. In addition, he created Ecliptic Capital, a $100 million evergreen investment fund that could grow to $150 million by the end of the year.

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