Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. My VC told me that if we monetize too early we will scare away our nascent marketplace and not grow as fast. Your VC is right.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

For example, Leading Edge Capital closed on nearly $2 billion for its sixth fund, Base10 Partners brought in $460 million for its third fund, Founders Fund secured $5 billion for two funds, Freestyle raised $130 million for its sixth fund and the list goes on and on. Overlooked Ventures co-founders Janine Sickmeyer and Brandon Brooks.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. Expert Networks.

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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. I like what Chris Sacca tweeted about it: "I admire how easy fundraising is for founders today. Seven Nation Army was playing.

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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.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 7, 2019

In VC, this means you source companies by talking with other VCs and tracking the investment patterns and new Linkedin connections of other VCs. You could argue that when they were [raising] oversubscribed [VC rounds], Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc., LTV / CAC, revenue growth, etc.) Probably a bad investment.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. 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.

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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. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. I’m talking Tom Watson at the British Open or Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

It’s my hypothesis of why so many founding teams have 3-4 founders. In part because as a VC I reached the longevity where you see some things fail and have to ask yourself, “would I readily work with that person again? I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. I fund both types all the time. Yet failure smells.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

.” I applaud all efforts by people to take on this issue and especially be Adeo who – let’s be honest – was really the first champion of trying to make the VC world more transparent by launching TheFunded, which didn’t exactly endear him to VCs initially. They’ll get priced soon enough by a VC.”

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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. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. Neither can any VC. Executive Summary.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

When Ibex Investors founder and CEO Justin Borus looks at the transportation industry — and the technological changes that are coming — he sees one of the biggest opportunities in a lifetime. Marc El Khoury, the co-founder and CEO of Aifleet, said he was drawn to Ibex, in part, because of the company’s limited partners.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 21, 2022

My professorship began in 2003 but a couple of years ago, I took my leave to pursue my itch to start a company again. market size & growth, competitive moat, founder-product fit?—?pointed A new kind of visual entertainment company (i.e., My usual criteria?—?market pointed towards the 2 AI startups.

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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. Fundbox helps with this.

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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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