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. Raising money is hard. Of course much of it is conflicting.

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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.

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peer-to-peer communities development innovation 285

David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. Expert Networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series. We had a strategy of hiring people really young because we couldn’t afford to hire too many senior people. We chose to move Ryan to be the peer of the lead architect. Before I started my first company in 1999 I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). I had to make a choice.

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