Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. The startup CEO was not the original founder.

startup 417

startup peer-to-peer VC culture 417

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. I HATE LOSING. I hate it. It chaps my hide.

consulting 328

consulting advice collaboration VC 328

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. It’s the one bit of advice I find myself giving most frequently these days, “raise money at the top end of normal.&#.

startup 336

startup advice pitching VC 336

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

I ran a marathon with my colleague in 2003 – I’m still bummed that he beat me even though he was clearly more athletic. From what I’m told the founders were already in the Schmatta ( Jobber ) business selling other people’s excess end-of-line inventory at bargain prices before there was an Internet angle.

entrepreneurs 296

entrepreneurs advice technology strategy 296

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. Tags: Startup Advice. I HATE LOSING.

consulting 333

consulting advice collaboration VC 333

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. Isn’t that conflicting advice? At an accelerator ….

VC 153

VC financing finance entrepreneurs 153

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. Tags: Start-up Advice. But first I’d like to start with a story.

consulting 151

consulting advice collaboration support 151

David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. VersatileVC offers an Entrepreneur in Residence program for founders seeking to launch a company that fits the firm’s investment criteria. . Further Reading.

consulting 128

consulting venture capital board capital 128

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series. When we started our next company, Koral, Ryan was a co-founder. I think we started working together in 2003 when he was new in the UK from South Africa. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice. Suddenly it was star treatment and all sorts of promises about the future.

peer-to-peer 322

peer-to-peer advice consulting entrepreneurs 322

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

Nate followed through on his views by investing in LA accelerator Science , run by the venerable Mike Jones , who is a former founder (UserPlane, sold to AOL), tech exec (at AOL and later at MySpace) and one of LA’s most prolific (and well liked) angels. 39:00 Tell me a little bit about Gaikai and how you got involved.

VC 279

VC culture incubation venture capital 279

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. So they go out of their way to offer advice and introductions.

strategy 366

strategy development VC advice 366

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In fact, most early investor work hard to help their startups get to the next level so it makes no sense for the angel investor and founders to be at odds. Convertible debt WITH a cap is stupid for founders. I thought we got rid of that s**t in 2003? Investors call Bull Cap. Enter “the cap.”

startup 354

startup VC entrepreneurs financing 354

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# This is an interview you’re not going to want to miss, I promise.

disruption 302

disruption technology financing finance 302

Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Entrepreneur and keynote speaker, Ramon Ray , founder of SmartHsutle.com, recently interviewed Borches to tap into her extensive advice and expertise as a leader in her industry. Borches joined the company in 2003 and has been leading CMA since 2011. Advice for Smaller Business Owners. Listen to the podcast here.

advice 77

advice culture communities entrepreneurs 77

Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

Ramon Ray, entrepreneur and founder of SmartHustle.com, had a discussion with Prashant Fuloria, CEO of Fundbox all about this and more. So, I sort of grew up as a product manager at Google in the early days of the company working on Google AdWords, when we just launched AdWords, I think back in 2003. Any advice for us, Prashant?

advice 98

advice technology capital financing 98

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

peer-to-peer 285

peer-to-peer communities development innovation 285