TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Viken Douzdjian , managing partner and co-founder, Argonautic Ventures. Will Gibbs , principal, Octopus Ventures. Viken Douzdjian, managing partner, Argonautic Ventures. We spoke with: Todd Harrison , founding partner and CIO, CB1 Capital Management. Yoni Meyer , partner, Casa Verde Capital. will.i.am , investor, Sanity Group.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2003, FreshBooks’ co-founder Mike McDerment was running a small design agency. After relaunching its accounting platform, FreshBooks has raised another $43 million. As in the case of many startups, FreshBooks was started to solve a pain point for one of its founders.

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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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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. Salyer was inducted into the Oklahoma Woman’s Hall of Fame in 2017. She has been recognized by Downtown Oklahoma City with the Dean A.

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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. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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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. Precision Ventures Precision Ventures identifies market opportunities and delivers complete concept solutions to brand-name global manufacturers.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

It was June of 2003. Somewhere within this portfolio, you're going to find some seriously huge successes and "the best of the best" will emerge--but you really never know which ones, just like any other venture portfolio. I sat in a little ink shop on Rivington Street called Porcupine Tattoo. Seven Nation Army was playing.

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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. We have much work still to do but: A few data points on Upfront Ventures - 25% of our investment dollars in the past three funds have gone to founding teams with at least one female founder.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Founded in 2003, it began as a platform for founders to connect, exchange insights, and glean knowledge from peers. Innovation Bay, a pioneering community group in the tech sector, powers collaboration and innovation.

peer-to-peer

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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

They started their first joint venture, Blue Moon Pizza, in 2003. It’s a big commitment, but the benefits of working every day and building a successful venture with the person you love make it well worth the time and effort. In Their Industry. You have to understand that you are in this business together?for

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The TL;DR answer to the stock option question is that MySpace options were cashed out at modest value at the time of the FIM merger, coming on the heels of the spin-out of MySpace into a separate subsidiary by parent company Intermix Media, with an infusion of new capital from Redpoint Ventures. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc.,

incubation

TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

He was also head of capital markets at SoFi and began his career at Deutsche Bank in 2003. We have seen a massive evolution of businesses moving online, especially during COVID, so there needs to be some fundamental infrastructure,” said Rebecca Kaden, managing partner at Union Square Ventures, about the investment. “We

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

billion in venture capital in 2021 and $70.7 billion in the first quarter of 2022 alone, according to PitchBook’s Venture Monitor report. Perhaps the most well-known maker of electric vehicles, or EVs, is Tesla, which was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning and has revolutionized the industry. since 2010.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 17, 2021

After assisting in founding four angel groups - the Frontier Angel Fund (2006), Vegas Valley Angels (2003), Tech Coast Angels (San Diego - 2000), and Aztec Venture Network (1999) – it was clear to Bill that angels needed comprehensive education, no matter where they were in their investing journey.

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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. And one of the best examples of this is autonomous vehicles or robotaxis. So, when I joined Stanford to do my Ph.D. So, he had driven a van autonomously across the desert and won this.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

On the phone … Me: So, you raised venture capital? I have never come across a sophisticated A, B or C round venture capitalist who thinks convertible notes are a smart move for entrepreneur or investor. We raised a seed round. About $1 million. Me: At what price? Him: It wasn’t priced. We raised a convertible note.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

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? So, we’re not a venture capitalist, right? And I feel very fortunate to have been able to play a small role in those efforts. Line of Credit?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2025

Content: I’ve been investing in data for the last 17 years and have worked with companies like Looker, Monte Carlo, Hex, Omni, Tobiko Data and Mother Duck I founded Theory, a venture firm managing $700M with the idea that all modern software companies will be underpinned by data and AI We run a research-oriented firm, formed by 200 buyers of (..)

enablement

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 23, 2011

Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people. SOPA would disproportionately alter the risk profile for new startups, which are thinly capitalized compared to the giants like Google and Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains. You don’t have a clue. Neither do I.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

In New York, for instance, there are now venture funds with a West Coast mentality and firms with an East Coast mentality; the same is true for firms in San Francisco. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital? The biggest question for a venture firm is whether LPs will fail to make capital calls in a crisis. “It

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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?". So when did I really start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures? I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 20, 2022

At 60, with 35 years of venture investing experience, I still get most things wrong. I met Mena Trott at a Nick Denton party in NYC in 2003 and she explained blogging to me. Investing is humbling. Which is why I like to keep things simple. And when I do I am rewarded. My friend Gordon asked me last night how I got into Bitcoin.

investing

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We found a way to make our venture capital last when it shouldn’t have, at around the same time one of my all time favorite New Yorker cartoons was published on this topic. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born.

entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. Many businesses that pitch to me have White Elephant issues and I’d like to tell you how to deal with these when you’re raising venture capital. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice. I sometimes call these White Elephants. Small story.

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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. So rounds tend to be “range bound&# where the top end of the valuation spectrum often being done in boom markets (i.e. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

startup

Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 26, 2022

A former venture capitalist, Mark Leonard started Constellation in 1995 with $15m of outside investment & a goal of buying vertical software companies with a moat & good unit economics. From 2003 to 2014, Constellation’s revenues compounded from $80m to more than $5b, an average of 25% annually. . # of BUs. %. >

peer-to-peer

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. The Union Square Ventures partners started whispering in his ear that “it’s all about social now”.

disruption

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Let’s start with the supposition that the venture-founder compact is built almost entirely on trust, especially early on. I would argue what she did helped undermine the entire venture compact, and that’s why she’s going to jail. The implication here is that Holmes’ rich investors deserved to lose their money.

startup ecosystem

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 If you haven’t already, book your pass soon as we’re quickly approaching capacity.

advice

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. I struggled to figure out how to select a problem that could be a viable venture over the next 10 years. what will a typical day look like with each venture, and will I enjoy it? My usual criteria?—?market

startup

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 2003, that was gone and the company quickly introduced fees accross its markets. Jennifer Queen. Contributor.

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