TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

LMS365: Tracking and reporting Image Credits : LMS365 The story so far LMS365’s history can be traced back to 2003, when dentist Bjarne Mortensen founded a company called Elearningforce that was focused squarely on on-premise deployments of Microsoft Sharepoint. Germany, and Australia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

Upfront Ventures has a deep-seated commitment to equality in funding & building diverse teams across all ethnicities, nationalities and genders. 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

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

It was June of 2003. The problem is that the program simply attracts only "the best"--a group of entrepreneurs who, at first, self select and believe they fit this criteria and then displays whatever patters Paul Graham and his team believe to be indicative of success. She had flower sleeves of spectacular color.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Founder, and former President and CEO. She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. McGee Award and was the 2003 Journal Record Woman of the Year. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma?

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 7, 2019

As a venture capitalist, should you be a Momentum or a Value investor? Likely signs of a Momentum investment: the round is oversubscribed and the entrepreneur has more negotiating leverage than VCs during the closing process. . Today, some Momentum-centric venture capital investors have high paper returns.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: So, you raised venture capital? 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. On the phone ….

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. MySpace was incubated by a small team of employees within Intermix in 2003 (Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson and four others).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. Startups and founders need to come to terms with the stark reality that the rules of the game may be changed mid-play.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We also spent a fair bit of time talking about the changing nature of venture capital and in particular the hand-on practitioner role of early-stage VC led by accelerators such as YC, 500Startups, Betaworks and the like. Nate, tell us a bit about Rustic Canyon Venture Partners. My guest today is Nate Redmond. Is that a real trend?

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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. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. Others that are experts in this field include Matt Harris at Village Ventures and Jim Robinson at RRE. You’ll never make a great entrepreneur.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. If you are a founder who is excited about starting a new marketplace, there are two caveats that are important to remember. Reduces forfeiture by enhancing utilization (mortgages, car loans, etc) (Uber, AirBnb, Rover, Hipcamp).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 21, 2022

When the idea finds the entrepreneur Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash After founding multiple startups, including Yodle, which sold after growing into a $200M+ revenue line business, I had settled into advising student entrepreneurs at Wharton. market size & growth, competitive moat, founder-product fit?—?pointed

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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. Venture Funding?

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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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