Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

We’ve hung out periodically over the past few years and I have enjoyed debating many startup topics. We had a discussion about how businesses change after the company really isn’t a startup anymore. Yesterday’s show floored me. I consider Gregg Spiridellis a good friend. It changed everything.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. Hopefully this becomes the year that most of the startup teams you see have not only a business person and a tech person, but also a designer--and you start to see people looking for "design co-founders".

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

Back in 2004, I was working for the General Motors pension fund, which had been making limited partnership investments in venture capital since the early 1980’s. I got to see all of the top VCs pitching their funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

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. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. It literally drove FOMO. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It’s a great topic, his post is well written and given that he’s going through it right now in his startup it’s worth reading his point of view on the topic. Startups often make this mistake. Like everything, I screwed this up in my first startup. I was too much Accenture, not enough Startup.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Did you miss the other Startup Battlefield VC judges? Did you know?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. It’s basically office space where as a startup you can be located with dozens of other companies at a similar stage to your own. This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

US rule changes could mean more startups would need government approval to hire immigrants. Acquisitions are an important element of the startup ecosystem. Despite best efforts, company failure is the most common outcome — more than 90% of startups fail. Accordingly, 58% of startups expect to be acquired.

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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. Census Bureau allowed the researchers to get an accurate and comprehensive view of all business startup activity in America. By that summer, Zuckerberg moved himself and the company to Silicon Valley and never looked back.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 28, 2017

One typical Friday morning in 2004, I walked into a government building and headed to work. For a startup, whose competitive advantage is speed, this innovation hiatus has an enormous and unquantifiable cost. It would have been code poetry, which is a wonderful thing, but not a priority for a fast-moving startup.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

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. Menlo Park-based Structural Capital among other institutions that also joined in the strategic round totaling $35 million. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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Dream It

APRIL 29, 2019

The study looked at 316,244 women whose health insurance switched from a low-deductible plan to a high-deductible plan between 2004 and 2014. An article in NPR describes a recent study that linked high-deductible health plans to delayed diagnosis and treatment. months longer for diagnostic breast imaging, 2.7 months for first biopsy, 6.6

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

2) Do you sell something that isn’t truly a must-have product to startups or other tech companies? Even after the worst period for VC in history—VC funds were back to market in 2004, no more than four years after the crash, right in line with the historical pace to get back at the game of investing. The incentive is too strong.

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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. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. Thank you, John. It was gaining traction in the marketplace.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

To measure sales efficiency, SaaS startups should use the 4×2. “Most sales tools today work for the organization and make the user work for the tools rather than the tools working for the user,” he added.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2022

Startups feel this way today. We’re a company that wants to be weighed, and over time, we will be—over the long term, all companies are. In the meantime, we have our heads down working to build a heavier and heavier company. Company performance exceeds employee expectations, yet the market values the company less than two quarters ago.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Enterprise Ireland is another example.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. Enter Facebook. One I saw recently was PlaceIQ.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 25, 2023

VNG, established in 2004 and acclaimed as Vietnam’s pioneer tech unicorn, has experienced remarkable growth since its inception. Beginning as a small startup with five individuals, the company has expanded to become Vietnam’s most extensive native digital ecosystem. .”

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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. “My startup business was acquired and I worked for the company that bought us; which was a public company called Ameridata that bought about 40 companies in about three years. So I think the hardest role to fill in a startup is a Product Management role.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. 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.

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 27, 2023

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

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

That spring of 2004, I was looking after our three kids—Emma, five; Kaitlin, three; and Keenan, two. When I joined 2Market and eventually AOL, nobody—including me—knew much about the internet, online shopping, tech startups, or megamergers. I had a lot to figure out, and it wasn’t like I had nothing else to do. You’re smart.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Ant has its roots in Alipay, an online payment service founded in 2004. Ant’s delay has cost its former parent company around $60 billion in market capitalization in a single day. The company’s Alibaba spin-out came seven years later in 2011, with its former parent company buying 33% of its value in 2018 ahead of its planned IPO.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Does it really take an average of seven to eight years for a successful startup to exit? We looked at years of data from hundreds of successful startups. exchange or an exit via M&A from 2004-2019. Here’s what our analysis of startups with successful exits revealed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. This means that if a venture capitalist scores a big win with a startup that goes public, there will likely be pressure to liquidate some of the VC’s position as a result. venture capital market. But perhaps it shouldn’t have made quite as many waves as it did.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

The reality, added Khosla, is that “most board members today in startups have not earned the right to advise” because many have not themselves built startups. Onstage, he pointed to a TechCrunch piece he wrote in 2013, titled: “70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups.” The outfit plans to raise $1.5

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

They acquire the necessary legal assets, including entity formations and tax IDs, so this idea may become a startup, launch, and open for business. In 2004, I left the firm to join Intuit as their in-house GM. This idea allows them to create an offering or product that helps solve a problem facing customers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

One startup out of Boston, Knox Financial , aims to help people identify and manage residential rentals with its algorithm-based platform, and it’s raised a $10 million Series A to help it further that goal. Knox co-founder and CEO David Friedman is no stranger to startups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. Landis acquires real estate startup GoldenKey. Homeownership is one of the key components to building intergenerational wealth, and Landis is working to make that a reality for renters. homeownership rates in 2020 were about 65.8% according to Statista.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

I later moved to Denver, Colorado, and have worked in the world of banking and real estate as a partner and co-CEO of a company called Legacy Management Group since 2004. How to Achieve Startup Success from Day 1. I was honored to come to America to pursue my business goals and kick-start a successful career.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I was in college from 2000 to 2004. Black founders capitulate and conform to what society has dictated as appropriate fundraising, often glorifying the investor with the fate of their startup in their hands, without realizing that they hold the negotiating power. Their playbook hasn’t won us any games. As of today, own your power.

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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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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 real focus should be on smart planning, finding ways to launch and build the business with smart but frugal use of money. Let me tell you two stories that are linked.

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