AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

I initially worked as an analyst at a stock-broking firm until 2004 before embarking on my venture capital and private equity journey, where I made my first investments in Greater China before exiting via the London Stock Exchange later between 2005 and 2006. In short, venture capital is a long-term game, and there is no escape.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. I tell my wife to assume that money is lost.&#.

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JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. And I was so pleasantly surprised to learn that Randy Churchill will join Cooley’s LA practice as head of business development. Nearly everybody in the DC region had told me, “You must meet Mike. He knows every startup & VC in town.”

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad. BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. It is because when you share too much of this information with staff you develop an “options culture” the I find unhealthy. As a startup CEO you’ll have to develop your own comfort level with what to share and with whom. Startup Advice' Sorry, brah.”

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 29, 2019

Personal strengths are a culmination of our natural talents and how much we develop those talents during our formative years. But this insight is needed more in terms of developing a sound foundation of self-leadership and self-mastery than ticking off a “chances of success checklist” before we start anything.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Now, everyone sees Google as this huge company with endless products and expansive teams, but back in 2005 when I worked there, it didn’t seem like a megacompany. That may seem strange advice for a new startup, but the economy is volatile and things change very fast.

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MARCH 25, 2016

But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

Series A investors expect a company to be further along it its development compared to ten years ago. I hear this in the advice that seed investors provide to SaaS companies. Series A volumes have more than doubled in the same period. Instead, the competition is about progress.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. Don’t wait for your perfect business development deals to come to fruition that are 6-months away in your pipeline. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. The iPhone success is more profound than just iPhone apps.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. So they develop short-hand ways to qualify things better.

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JUNE 22, 2011

To anybody who asks my advice I repeat the same line, “I don’t know whether this party will last 6 weeks, 6 months or 18 months. Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Ryan was my savior when it came time for questions on how SOLR clustering works, why Postgres was more suitable to us than MySQL and why aspect-oriented programming was delivering us benefits in the development process. I look forward to the next phase of our business.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I use to to learn, to grow, to ask questions for which I’m curious and to further develop relationships that I have. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. So do I waste my hour per week on camera and my hour of discussion before hand? Not a chance.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. We had lots of debates about the tech world and about career development. I was chatting with the finance guy and he was cycling through all the things he wanted to bait-and-switch me to and he asked if I wanted a lease in stead of a purchase. Why so many on leases? And I like it.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

From the experience in my earliest days of designing products for Windows and OS2 machines in the early 1990′s I developed a product philosophy, “Design for the novice, configure for the pro.” We built our product at Koral in 2005 with this design philosophy in mind. Startup Advice' Find out for sure.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 14, 2014

This is the question Best Buy store managers posed each time a potential customer walked into one of its stores when the company decided to segment its customer base in 2005. Personas anchor product design and development, marketing and sales, and even customer success to tangible user archetypes. Barrys are high-income family men.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. It’s been a huge success.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

But most of all, he will go out of his way to help newcomers (as well as veterans) of the Austin tech scene whenever they need help or advice or counsel,” Forrest said. “We government essentially shut them down in 2005, he said. In my experience, Whurley has always led by example on this front.”. But the U.S.

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