Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 31, 2022

His first major company was Blogger (acquired by Google in 2003) which was where the term “blog” was first popularized. His latest and current venture is Medium, the massive online writing platform known for its quality content and unique voices. He later went on to cofound Twitter and served as the platform’s CEO.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Ajay has been an instrumental investor since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003. Ajay is coming to Early Stage just weeks after Bain Capital Ventures announced two new funds. Bain’s venture arm raised $1.9 billion fund for seed to growth-stage startups and a $1.4 billion across two funds, a $1.4

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

million venture fund called Tiger Private Investment Partners XIV that it expects to close in March. The fund is Tiger’s 13th venture fund, despite its title — the partners might be superstitious — and it comes hot on the heels of the firm’s 12th venture fund, closed exactly a year ago, also with $3.75

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

It''s kind of a funny answer to "When did you start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?". Henry told me that I should start a fund--me, a 27 year old former VC analyst turned product manager with no MBA at a startup that wasn''t really headed in any particular direction. So when did I really start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Jennifer Queen is the founder of Pina , a PR firm focused on startups and venture capital firms. Latin American venture capital and growth investments through 2018 had averaged less than $2 billion per year. By solving local issues, startups will build pricing power, which should allow them to thrive. Jennifer Queen.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

After interviewing several active investors in cannabis-related startups, we learned that the regulatory and functional landscape in Europe is just as fragmented as it is in North America. Viken Douzdjian , managing partner and co-founder, Argonautic Ventures. Will Gibbs , principal, Octopus Ventures. It’s too soon to say.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 17, 2021

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager As an entrepreneur and seasoned angel investor, Bill Payne understands the critical importance of education to make well-informed decisions that determine the success or failure of a startup. In 2003 he was engaged in the formation and startup of the Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

in 2003, Sebastian Thrun had just won the DARPA Grand Challenge, right? ” Like, autonomous vehicle is a solved problem back in 2003. It’s exactly economic dislocations that create new startups, not just new technology. And one of the best examples of this is autonomous vehicles or robotaxis.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

As in the case of many startups, FreshBooks was started to solve a pain point for one of its founders. In 2003, FreshBooks’ co-founder Mike McDerment was running a small design agency. Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment. 1Password first became a unicorn in 2019.

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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. I am not sure about you, but lately I’ve been hearing the same chatter from friends and colleagues at startups. What was the impact on startups?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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? Get started! Oklahoma is very friendly to entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

What is a startup? In the past, we might have said that once a private-market company earns a $1 billion valuation, it is no longer a startup. But with venture capitalists and crossover investors turning an ever-increasing number of less mature startups into unicorns, that demarcation line has lost its rigidity.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

It was June of 2003. Similarly, picking seed investors for your first startup in and around the craziness of an accelerator demo day can be just as scarring over the long term. Trivia question: What active startup investor has the most tats? ). I sat in a little ink shop on Rivington Street called Porcupine Tattoo.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The startup, which finances electric vehicles and has plans to build, own and operating the corresponding charging infrastructure, came out of stealth on Wednesday with an initial $200 million in capital commitment. The funding comes from ArcLight Capital Partners, a venture fund that invests in energy infrastructure.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35).

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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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David Teten VC

JANUARY 9, 2018

Traditional venture investing is challenging. My colleague Victor Wang observes that Union Square Ventures is a particularly good example of the power of a correct thesis. Similarly, firms like my alma mater ff Venture Capital and Andreessen Horowitz have executed this strategy in VC. – Thesis.

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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 million Series A in 2010 that was co-led by Accel and Index Ventures. Declining ad rates may signal a reset for startup SEM strategies.

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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. NEA is an investor in Maisonette, as is Thrive Capital and the growth-stage venture firm G Squared, which just today announced it led a $30 million round in the company that brings its total funding to $50 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

And over those many years, the company did pretty much everything wrong, if you ask the venture capitalists. Automattic’s founder, Matt Mullenweg, was barely of American legal drinking age (21) when he began building, at a time when venture capitalists wanted “adult supervision” at their companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Nicolás Giménez , the co-founder of Argentina-based startup Fidu , has convinced over 1,000 schools across the Latin America region to place their operations in the hands of a scrappy edtech startup. The co-founder said that the startups coming before Fidu made schools “afraid of getting into new technology.”.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

For many of these startups, revenue hasn’t been able to keep pace with rising serving costs. Is the drought of consumer investment capital experienced by the internet monoliths common to earlier startups? Through Q3 2012, that share has grown to 16.8%, indicating the consumer venture market is growing or stable.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Startups and founders need to come to terms with the stark reality that the rules of the game may be changed mid-play. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. In 2011, virtually every new consumer Internet startup incorporates a social/UGC element.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Written by : Regina Beach Propel(x) curated a list of five startup-led tech trends in the 21st century that transformed industries. This list primarily looks at deep tech sectors, with many of the mentioned startups having grown into household names and multibillion-dollar companies today. Startups raised $342.2 since 2010.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. Meenta Instantly access the world’s scientific equipment & COVID-19 labs Launch413 Takes startups to their first $10 million in revenue while providing early returns to investors.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 7, 2022

I can’t tell you whether this is just a few months of rightsizing or a multiyear recession but I do anticipate there are going to be more cuts — and outright failed startups — before our industry outlook returns to half-full instead of half-empty. Very often at startups your title isn’t reflective of all of your roles, or is quite generic.

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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. Ultimately, this data implies that there is plenty of Series A capital available for startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Back in 2003, Stérin co-founded Smartbox Group , the company behind many popular experience gift boxes. With Otium Capital, the family office has a broad investment strategy from leveraged buy-outs to real estate — and it has done quite a few startup investments over the years. It is Pierre-Edouard Stérin’s family office.

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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. I agree with him. My guest today is Nate Redmond.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

.” Ibex Investors , which is based in Denver with offices in New York and Tel Aviv, was founded in 2003 with a “multi-stage” and “multi-strategy” investment strategy. Their structure is unlike the traditional venture capital firm. That opens Ibex to a whole new swath of mobility startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. The Union Square Ventures partners started whispering in his ear that “it’s all about social now”. Thank you, John.

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