Founder Bounty

JANUARY 27, 2023

Andrew Wilkinson is the founder of MetaLab , a design agency based in Vancouver, and Flow. Tiny Capital in 2018. After graduating from Oak Bay High School in 2004, he won a place at Ryerson University studying journalism. MetaLab is the design team behind Slack which is now valued at $2.8 His latest acquisition?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. But that image is only one part of venture capital. The venture capital community has significant influence on what potential LPs see as great investment opportunities.

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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. The founders of “Time” magazine, for example, wanted to create a news magazine that a busy person could read in an hour or less. And I certainly had no vision of becoming a major player in the beverage industry.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Nektar co-founders Abhijeet Vijayvergiya and Aravind Ravi Sulekha. Its seed round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Insignia Venture Partners, Arka Venture Labs, Better Capital and Vietnam Investments Group. Singapore-based Nektar.ai , a productivity platform for sales teams, has raised $2.15

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

What can early-stage founders do to accelerate outcomes? After all, that’s the thesis we built our venture model around — we purposefully designed M13 so that early-stage founders get access to experienced executives they wouldn’t otherwise have the money to hire or the time to vet, onboard and manage.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The culture is driven by the 20-something irreverent founder with huge technical chops who in a “David vs. Goliath” mythology take on the titans of industry and wins. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2021

Why fight about valuation, or disappoint the founder at the outset? The first is of a 2004 startup that I cofounded and led the investment group for several early rounds, then VC rounds. Email readers, continue here…] The second story involves the same founder. Lessons founders learned. More of my stories.

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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. Lastly, all politics is local.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users. 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.

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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

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

Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. 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. a fbFund winner. Current round: $4.

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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. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Total raised: $17.0mm.

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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. The investment in patents, and intellectual property more broadly, isn’t always on top of founders’ minds. But, anyone with a unique idea and a vision to bring it to reality should definitely consider patenting.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

the founders of a young company hailing from Cambridge, England addressed a crowd of celebrities, investors and entrepreneurs at Y Combinator’s August Demo Day promising a revolution in food science. “Conventional cane sugar is heavily heavily water intensive,” said Supplant co-founder Tom Simmons in an interview.

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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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Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2014

Why fight about valuation, or disappoint the founder at the outset? The first is of a 2004 startup that I cofounded and led the investment group for several early rounds, then VC rounds. The second story involves a founder who is using outsourced development, support, outsourced customer relations and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. What better than to have capital from somebody who has actually done it in the trenches? Here’s a summary of our interview.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Cooley, a top tier startup law firm, reported this trend in their valuation quarterly report , which tracks these figures where they are counsel to either investors or founders. The grey line smooths the chart to show long term changes and the blue dashed line marks the 2004 Median Series B pre-money. As for the question, why now?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Founder, and former President and CEO. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. Another area where founders sometimes spend too much time is accounting.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So was starting.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. Founders however are asked to take low salaries and never really get back the time they worked for free.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 24, 2017

After last week’s post, Is There a No Man’s Land in SaaS ACVs , a founder asked me to highlight some of the go to market strategies in different segments. Founded in 2004, Fleetmatics employs about 1150 employees. They haven’t raised venture capital. The tradeoff is somewhat slower growth.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

If a valuation is too low, the founders become over-diluted over time and will struggle to do a later series A or B raise if they’re sitting at single digits – global venture capitalists (VCs) won’t touch this scenario. A simple metric – when I registered my first company in 2004, the naming space was wide open.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Ant’s delay has cost its former parent company around $60 billion in market capitalization in a single day. Ant has its roots in Alipay, an online payment service founded in 2004. Alibaba is worth around $772 billion today after the news, off from a value of around $841 billion yesterday.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Knox co-founder and CEO David Friedman is no stranger to startups. He founded Boston Logic – an integrated marketing platform and online marketing services for real estate offices and agents – in 2004. Knox plans to use its new capital to continue expanding geographically and getting the word out to more people. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

It’s almost been neglected,” CEO and co-founder Udayan Umapathi told TechCrunch. In 2013, Illumina acquired Advanced Liquid Logic, a company founded in 2004 that had already been working on applying digital microfluidics to prep work for Next Generation DNA sequencing.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. These are often 100% US-based at inception, but in my experience they are more likely to both open an office abroad and to sell abroad than a company without an immigrant founder.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2023

We were founded in 2004 by David Rose, Founder & Executive Chairman, Gust. Things like which industry categories received the most investment dollars, median valuations, stage of companies, founder demographics, and other topics. We are one of the world’s largest and most active single-chapter angel groups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

private equity firm Wavecrest Growth Partners and Canada’s Espresso Capital. Founded in 2004, London-based HICX serves a SaaS-based low-code platform that gives companies a single channel for onboarding new suppliers, replete with tools for capturing all the information that the various departments and systems within a company need.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

And I’m sure everyone remembers the video that put them on the map – the one I first saw – which was the Bush/Kerry video This Land is Your Land (“you have more waffles than a house of pancakes), which was part of the 2004 elections and both candidates were asked about while they were campaigning.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

In 2004, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk took what appeared to be a huge and perhaps reckless gamble. In 2004, Musk was way ahead of the curve in foreseeing the transformation of energy from fossil fuels to renewables. .” Memic’s strong management team is led by Chairman Maurice R. Learn More. Today, the signs are everywhere.

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