Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

At an accelerator … 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. Truthfully.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Natalia Holgado Sanchez is head of capital markets at Secfi , an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. The first company to go public was Callidus in October, 2003, though it wasn’t the most successful exit. Natalia Holgado Sanchez. Contributor.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. 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. Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

This could also save your finances as they will take fewer hours on your taxes. It will also assist you in keeping track of your costs, allowing you to focus on growing your business rather than thinking about your personal finances. These two types of debts can hurt your finances badly due to the revolving high interest.

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Feedough

MARCH 1, 2021

Unfunded startups are further categorised into: Self-funded: A self-funded startup is operated through an influx of investment by the founders who take care of the startup expenses using personal finance. This investment can be in the form of debt financing or equity financing. Funded Startup. Based On Motivation.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

She was the first of many strong and independent women in our family — my great-grandmother, grandmother, and ultimately my mother — who had and continue to have such an impact on me.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Martino outlined essentially two types of outcomes for this financial crisis from a historical perspective: “In 2001-2003, there was a depression in Silicon Valley. Liquidation preferences may change in later financing rounds, but probably too significantly. Will founders start seeing liquidation preferences or redemption rights?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Shelley joined the EO Brisbane chapter in 2003. Read as she recounts five tips for failing forward that detail course-correcting strategies for maximizing each of our 30,000 days of life on Earth, accepting failures and moving forward to discover the next exciting chapter life has in store.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Whether we will see as dramatic a correction in the next few years as we did in 2001 to 2003, however, is anyone’s guess.”. “If Lerner said this point in time feels like the period between March and December 2000, “when public technology stock prices dropped dramatically and there was little apparent impact on venture capital fundraising.

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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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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

finance, transforming India into an Impact Startup nation.”. “We 2014-2017); Founding CEO of WNS Knowledge Services (2003-2007); Founding Country Manager of. FreeMarkets (1999-2003); and, Founder & Head of McKinsey Knowledge Centre (1996-1999). programs, across 60 countries to India.”

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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. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) was spun out, and the valuation was set by that financing round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Squarespace, which has helped millions create their own websites, was founded in 2003 and bootstrapped until a $38.5 But it is perhaps best known for its epic 2017-era $200 million secondary round that General Atlantic financed. million Series A in 2010 that was co-led by Accel and Index Ventures. That round was raised at a $1.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Fidu wants to build a new operating system for LatAm schools, so that institutions can digitally manage everything from finances to schoolwide announcements. Once it has a better understanding of that data, it seeks to offer guaranteed revenue financing to schools. We expect that may happen in LatAm too,” she added.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 10, 2015

The rate at which startups are raising follow-on rounds is decreasing, and has decreased steadily from 2003 through 2013. Between 2003 and 2006, post-Series A startups raised series Bs about 57% of the time. However from 2011-2014, that figure fell to 28%. And this is true for every quartile of company.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Tatum Executive Services provides “CFOs, CIOs and senior finance professionals [to help] lead [companies] through any challenge”. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Armed Services.” .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

2003 / Great service really does win business. To celebrate our anniversary, I’m sharing a few pivotal lessons I have learned during each of these wonderful years. 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!

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 26, 2015

ED ZIMMERMAN : In 2003, I remember the general counsel of a prestigious venture fund shouting down the idea of “secondary” or “founder liquidity” (i.e. enabling a startup’s founders to sell shares and get cash as part of the round).

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Source Link

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Since 2003, The National Entrepreneur Center has been collaborating with area resource partners to champion entrepreneurs and small business owners. Building on top of a strong foundation of collaboration and community.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

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. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. There is no such thing as a uniform price. That’s fine. I’m a VC so I have an obvious bias.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 9, 2020

That lasted from September 2003 to February 2014. USV TEAM POSTS: John Buttrick — Jan 7, 2020 Juro Nick Grossman — Jan 6, 2020 Automated Personal Finance Bethany Crystal — Jan 5, 2020 My 2020 Mantra: Lead with Compassion Albert Wenger — Jan 1, 2020 An Agenda for the 2020s: Inventing the Knowledge Age.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It reminds me of the early days of web2 in 2001/2002/2003, when we started USV. As such Web3 can, if properly developed and with the right kind of regulation, provide a meaningful shift in power back to individuals and communities. The good news is there are literally tens of thousands of teams building new things on a web3 stack now.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 7, 2019

In 2000, LPs invested $104b into 638 funds, but by 2003, LPs’ commitment rate had dropped to just $11b into 161 funds. If the Founder continues to be weak at follow-on financing, that “value trap” can hinder their continued growth. . But VC is historically and consistently cyclical.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One famous example was the campaign US launched against Iraq and Saddam Hussein in 2003. Collective rationalisation : The team thinks that the decision presented is the correct one, even if there are sources that say otherwise.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? I thought we got rid of that s**t in 2003? valuation and another person funds you with convertible debt at $5m valuation (high resolution financing) and your equity round finally closes at a $10 million valuation. Some thoughts on raising angel money.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer.

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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. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds. Call it your functional pie chart.

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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. They have helped 2,000 substitute teachers get in the classroom in 2018, including 400 educators who earned permits, which Swing willingly financed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

It is now enabling financing for over 2,500 businesses in the U.S. One of the areas where Murata says Slope is differentiating itself from other financial providers is its focus on a developer-centric approach, where others are taking a finance-centric approach, and “integration and underwriting have been so bad as a result,” he added.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

Fundbox provides fast small business loans to business owners to help them finance the growth of their businesses. 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. Prashant, anything I didn’t ask you?

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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. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier.

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