TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

TechCrunch Live is a free weekly event featuring investors, founders, and startups with the goal of helping entrepreneurs build better venture-backed businesses. 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

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. “We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Pitch perfect, you might think.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. I’m Travis Bryant.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Read plenty of “what went wrong” eulogies by founders and see what you can learn. Validate data. Validate firmly held positions. ”

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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. What qualities do you seek in start-up founders whose companies you would invest in?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I will even take to emailing people I don’t know offering small bits of advice. He turned me down for a job in 2005. I try to take time out of my week to occasionally meet with startup founders – even those that haven’t been introduced. If you do randomly write me I have advice. I try to be helpful.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

In 2005 they realized that this business was going to evaporate over night with the introduction of YouTube. Working with a family member (Evan, the co-founder is his brother)? Advice, coaching, intros? How did the Introduction of YouTube affect your business? It changed everything.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Chris Dixon made the point that he thinks investors should look for the founders to have the domain knowledge rather than them having domain knowledge themselves. But while I prefer a certain naive optimism in founders I can’t see the logic that this extends to angel investors. As tempting and as deserving as it might be.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

. $5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Chris Dixon made the point that he thinks investors should look for the founders to have the domain knowledge rather than them having domain knowledge themselves. But I prefer a certain naive optimism in founders but I can’t see that this extends to angel investors. Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. With First Round Capital, Sequoia and Founders Fund obviously a lot of respected investors think highly of its potential. 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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. With three co-founders, what was decision making and roles and responsibilities like? And there you have it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Like many startup founders, Anjali Jindal Naik, co-founder and COO of autonomous sidewalk robot maker Cartken, was raised by entrepreneurs. When she graduated from university, Naik’s father gave her some advice: Start your own business; don’t work for somebody else.

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Feedough

APRIL 14, 2021

This term is believed to have first appeared in a blog post by Rex Hammock on May 11, 2005. He spelled it Acq-hire and characterised it as: When a large company “purchases” a small company with no employees other than its founders, typically to obtain some special talent or a cool concept. Otherwise, the transaction might be postponed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. On a panel that I sat on with Ron in LA in 2008 he stated that there were no circumstances in which the founder should take money off of the table. He’s been at it since 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it

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Venture Hacks

APRIL 17, 2019

Incentives make for bad investing advice. Valuations for pre-traction companies between 2005-2010 were $1-5M pre-money for the first non-friends-and-family round. The investor’s job is to listen and decide whether the founders are smart, honest, and hard-working. Incentives make for bad investing advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. Sorry, brah.”

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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. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I Is that when it became big? was starting.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

based incorporation management company that has incorporated more than 450,000 companies since its foundation in 2005. As it enters the U.K. market, Sleek has also announced the acquisition of Ltd Companies , the U.K.-based Sleek will add its stack to the existing Ltd Companies offering to build an operating system for U.K.-based based SMEs.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

What does this imply for early stage founders? I hear this in the advice that seed investors provide to SaaS companies. Today, I hear from founders they aim for at least $80-$100k of MRR before starting conversations when targeting larger Series As. For founders, the difference in wording is an an advantage.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2022

David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College, 2005. In 2005, the famous American author and professor gave a speech entitled “This Is Water,” that has since become legendary. Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005. The post Pomp and Reality: Real advice for today’s graduates appeared first on. It’s an epidemic.”. Watch | Transcript.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half. No new investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

It’s meant to be a bit provocative but the reality is that I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the the time and I usually leave the “e&# off of the end. I normally offer this advice in the capacity of really wanting to help entrepreneurs so please bear with me. management, founders, angel investors) get any money.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 24, 2024

While there I worked in what would become Sebastian Thrun’s AI research lab — he was one of the co-founders of Google X, and their self-driving car project that became Waymo. I went back to Google for a bit and I had that realization that I wanted to be working with startup founders again. Should I start another company?

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Both Sides of the Table

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 go out of their way to offer advice and introductions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2011

Founders don’t often think about “primary&# stock vs, “fully diluted&# stock in terms of voting rights. I was significantly wiser by 2005 when I started my second company. From there VentureHacks was then launched which gave entrepreneur advice on fund raising from your point of view. Sounds harmless enough.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

In his 2007 essay “ Why to Not Not Start a Startup ,” YC co-founder Paul Graham wrote about how common uncertainty was among people considering starting a company. When Y Combinator launched in 2005, starting a startup was an unusual career path for recent graduates. There’s nothing wrong with being unsure,” he noted.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

INTRODUCTION In his 2007 essay “ Why to Not Not Start a Startup ,” YC co-founder Paul Graham wrote about how common uncertainty was among people considering starting a company. ” When Y Combinator launched in 2005, starting a startup was an unusual career path for recent graduates.

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