Founder Bounty

JANUARY 27, 2023

Tiny Capital in 2018. After graduating from Oak Bay High School in 2004, he won a place at Ryerson University studying journalism.  Andrew started by buying some apartments, before moving on to investing in tech startups. His latest acquisition? " The billionaire has been quite a student in his time. How many has he sold?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

This simple and short blog post by the folks at Correlation Ventures contains the key to venture capital returns – the hit rate. Venture capital returns are highly correlated to a fund’s hit rate. In our 2004 fund it was five companies, but that is why that fund was so good. They certainly found it here.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

3) Do you need to raise a large amount of growth capital in 2022? Even “needing” growth capital can be problematic. Growth capital should be the kind of thing you choose to take, not need to take. 2) Do you sell something that isn’t truly a must-have product to startups or other tech companies? The incentive is too strong.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2022

It’s been a brutal year for many in the capital markets and certainly for Amazon.com shareholders. A remarkable accomplishment in the most unforgiving capital markets environment the company had seen. As of this writing, our shares are down more than 80 percent from when I wrote you last year. But he might have written it today.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Menlo Park-based Structural Capital among other institutions that also joined in the strategic round totaling $35 million. IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Sam Altman of YC recently pointed out that pulling back during the downturn in 2008 would result in several big misses: In October of 2008, Sequoia Capital—arguably the best-ever in the business—gave the famous “RIP Good Times” presentation (I was there). These sound fundamentals drive the venture capital market over the long term.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Its seed round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Insignia Venture Partners, Arka Venture Labs, Better Capital and Vietnam Investments Group. Founded earlier this year, Nektar has been working in stealth mode with five companies, and has plans for an early adopter release before a public launch by the end of 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

exchange or an exit via M&A from 2004-2019. While there are other intangible variables for startup success, the basic equation is the time and capital required to achieve an exit and the size of that exit. And when is the right time for those human capital resources to be introduced to make that impact?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla, who spoke onstage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, spoke about the culture of capital. The outfit plans to raise $1.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all. It’s amazing to me that a company that just a little over 5 years ago was struggling to attract capital at much more than $100 million valuation can now ACQUIRE companies for this amount.

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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. Capital was extremely cheap to borrow as interest rates dipped as low as 1.67% (compared to rates in the last few years bottoming out at 0.25%). Contributor.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2021

The first is of a 2004 startup that I cofounded and led the investment group for several early rounds, then VC rounds. The total capital raise was under $600,000, and the founder retains majority control of his baby through this and even one optional future round. More of my stories. Let me tell you two stories that are linked.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. Venture Capital & Technology' In fact, my history with Rob and Backupify goes back almost ten years, well before the idea of cloud backup was ever a glimmer in anyone''s eye. It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. Sequoia Capital led the round and was joined by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation venture investment arm Arrive, Will Smith’s Dreamers VC and existing investor Signia Venture Partners. homeownership rates in 2020 were about 65.8% according to Statista. The rate reached 63.7%

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As reported by Slate from a study from researchers at the University of North Carolina, “We have lost about 20 percent of local newspapers in the United States since 2004, and at least 900 communities now are without any local news source in that same time frame.” It’s the Gannett cuts that worry me the most.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009. I'm not surprised, because New Yorkers have more of a trading/investment mentality--thinking that it's better to take a sure $100 million than go for a home run with a lot more capital. Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 30, 2020

I saw this tweet coming out of the Upfront Summit yesterday (where I will be today): Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As the recipients of less than 1% of venture capital raise, institutionalized systems are visibly at play. From imbalances in fundraising to minimal capital and access, Black brilliance and its cloak of resilience continues to rise. I was in college from 2000 to 2004. I’m a Black man in America — that’s hard.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg famously launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room at the age of 19. Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Wale Ayeni , one of Africa’s well-known investors, has a new role as the head of Helios Digital Ventures, the venture capital strategy of private equity firm Helios Investment Partners, TechCrunch has learned. Interswitch receives $110M investment from LeapFrog and Tana Africa Capital. The firm manages funds totaling $3.6

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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. Redpoint, led by Geoff Yang , invested $11.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Current round: $7.0mm Series-B led by MK Capital, withClearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. New capital to be used for international expansion and to challenge Skype.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 17, 2020

For example, Nicholas Woodman presented his patent in 2004 , to enable people to easily record their exciting life moments. Not only can it protect your startup in the future, it can also provide valuable leverage when raising capital.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

That’s usually how a business gets off the ground successfully, even ones with a lot of capital behind them. That spring of 2004, I was looking after our three kids—Emma, five; Kaitlin, three; and Keenan, two. One day in September 2004, I realized that I had learned enough and had confidence enough to make my vision a reality.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Current round: $8.5mm Series-C led by Jafco Ventures with DCM , Emergence Capital, and August Capital participating. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Total raised: $19mm.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Iconic New York venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau announced $230 million in additional funding across two new funds: LH Seed VIII, which focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage companies, and LH Select IV, which invests in companies from Series A to C. He started Thrillist with Adam Rich in 2004, which later became Group Nine Media in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

What better than to have capital from somebody who has actually done it in the trenches? Matt’s commitment to re-investing in tech startups is reminiscent to this great Fred Wilson post of “recycling capital. &#. Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested.

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Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2014

The first is of a 2004 startup that I cofounded and led the investment group for several early rounds, then VC rounds. The total capital raise will have been under $600,000 if all goes as planned, and the founder retains majority control of his baby through this and even one optional future round. Email readers, continue here.]

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Now, the company has a new name, Supplant, and $24 million in venture capital financing to start commercializing its low-cost sugar substitute made from the waste materials of other plants. NEW YORK – DECEMBER 6: Packets of the popular sugar substitute Splenda are seen December 6, 2004 in New York City. ” Next steps.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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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. While the State is not known as a hub for venture capital, we have frequently been recognized by national sources as a great place to start a new business. Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

The grey line smooths the chart to show long term changes and the blue dashed line marks the 2004 Median Series B pre-money. The Series A valuation explosion is probably fueled by the tripling of capital in the institutional seed market. This data should help you understand what to negotiate for when raising capital.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 2, 2014

As the number of companies in a sector grows, do the odds of successfully raising capital decrease? The chart above shows startup company formation rates, the number of new companies formed each year from 2004-2011 by Crunchbase sector. On the whole, then, startups are competing with more and more other startups to raise capital.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Google defines kalsarikännit as “buttocks” when you use a capital “K” and “pantyhose” when you use a lower-case “k.”. When I purchased a translation company in 2004, the idea of machine translation was scary and exciting at the same time. But don’t use Google Translate to talk about this with your Finnish friends!

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Is the drought of consumer investment capital experienced by the internet monoliths common to earlier startups? In 2004, for every 1 consumer investment, VCs invested in 10 enterprise companies. Since the bottom in 2003-2004, consumer deals have increased their share of venture dollars growing by 250% to about 25%.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2015

The business was founded in 2004, but hit its stride 2009 and went public in 2012. ServiceNow has mostly operated unprofitably, investing as much capital as it can into growth. But that’s not to say the business isn’t very capital efficient. The company raised less than $90 million before IPO.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 14, 2016

The last time I learned a new programming language was 2004. No social capital required. I had been writing in Java for about four years, and then I heard whispers of a new framework called Rails that allowed engineers to write web applications in one-tenth the time of a Java web application. How to integrate a function.

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