2003 founder pitching VC 
Dream It
APRIL 12, 2020
During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. The founder negotiated with the fund and ultimately accepted a 15% lower price.
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 2, 2012
It was June of 2003. At least if you and some Silicon Valley VC get inked up in one of the breakout rooms, you can get it removed more quickly than you can get out of an investment relationship. When he finished, I turned to his friend and said, "Want me to critique his pitch?" She had flower sleeves of spectacular color.
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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. ” Your VC friends have been egging you on. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people.
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. 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.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 25, 2010
On Losing in VC. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo!
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 25, 2010
On Losing in VC. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo!
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. You can try to convince them of your “pay no more once you’ve signed up&# model but they fall for the other guy’s pitch every time.
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