Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We Ours is: upfront.com/inclusion. We strive to invest in companies that are consciously working to create a diverse leadership team?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For the first part of this talk, I’m going to argue that the capabilities have all been there, but the economics just haven’t for startups. The AI mediocrity spiral If you step back and you look at the standalone case for AI economics—not what a big company can extract from it, but a startup—it’s actually not been great.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In brief, a cap acts to place a limit on the conversion price of a convertible note such that investors are guaranteed a minimum number of shares for their bridge loans if the startup does a priced equity round at a high pre-money valuation – “high” meaning above the cap, which is often a heavily negotiated term. (The

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Roccia joined straight from Georgetown the same year, 2003, and left as the magazine’s accessories editor in 2008. For those who might be curious, their former boss, Anna Wintour, is a champion of theirs. “It’s why people liked wedding registries.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Whether you’re running a business, prepping to launch a startup, or dreaming of an entrepreneurial future, I hope these reflections help you on your journey! 2003 / Great service really does win business. The organization serve as an informal business advisory board. I certainly did.

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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. . By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. Tags: Startup Advice. I HATE LOSING.

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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. . By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. I HATE LOSING. I hate it. I lose sleep.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

When convertible debt first started being introduced as a “faster, cheaper way to get startups funded” they didn’t have pricing built into them. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born.

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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. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. In order to get a VC to agree to fund you, you need to get the entire partnership on board.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

With the typical “gusto” of an entrepreneur, Vladimir assumed “there had to be a better way” and in 2003 he set out to find a solution to provide a better and a great variety of folders to business owners. Vladimir’s early sales came from him participating in online discussion boards and going door to door.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

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. Again, kind of worked, I was actually the product director for Facebook ads, did that as well in the early days, and then also did a startup that was acquired by Yahoo.

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