TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The raise makes Shells and Umubyeyi two of the fewer than 250 Black women who’ve raised more than $1 million in venture capital. of the record $330 billion in venture capital went to Black women founders — a slice of the estimated 1.3% overall that went to Black entrepreneurs, per Crunchbase data.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

I don''t remember when I started talking to Rob, but I know it was before February of 2005, because I found "rob@businesspundit.com" in the contacts I ported over when I left GM and went to USV. I''m proud of the whole team at Backupify and have been really impressed with Rob''s ability to grow and learn as an entrepreneur over time.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015.

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MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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MARCH 15, 2012

So what would have happened had Sean met Joshua Schachter in 2005--would Josh have still sold out early to Yahoo! Seems to me that New York could use a guy who goes around broadening the visions of New York entrepreneurs. or would he have been convinced to take a financing round?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

I mean, there’s a reason that VCs love co-founders: Eighty percent of billion-dollar companies launched since 2005 have had two or more founders, one study shows. Banking isn’t the only ‘single point of failure’ entrepreneurs should be rethinking by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch Contradictions! We love them.

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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. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. Which is why I often tell people to start being entrepreneurs when one is young. ” 31:45 Is there truth to the idea that you shouldn’t force change upon entrepreneurs? I remember this lesson well.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I'm so excited to hear that Indeed.com, a company that Union Square Ventures invested in while I worked there, just exited for a reported billion dollars. Back in 2005, I was a lowly analyst at Union Square Ventures with a million product ideas that I'd blog about all the time. Indeed did one thing. That was it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes. The paid had worked together before — founding their first online payments company, MOIP, in 2005. With the checking account, customers have the ability to sending and receive money as well as pay bills digitally.

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APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp.

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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. For years it was known primarily for its software scene — in addition to being the live music capital of the world. Register here. It’s free.

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JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. For starters, David had once been an entrepreneur himself so it seemed like such a natural fit. Nearly everybody in the DC region had told me, “You must meet Mike. He knows every startup & VC in town.” He was a mensch.

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JULY 25, 2011

tl;dr version: If you’re an entrepreneur or VC or will be working in this industry - buy this. When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. – entrepreneurs never seem to focus on anything other than ownership percentage. Drag along rights? There was no guide.

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APRIL 11, 2011

Back in 2005, when I was with Union Square Ventures, we changed our brochureware homepage into a blog. It changed the way we worked with entrepreneurs. A few other VCs had been blogging before, but no one had gone as far as to make the whole front facing effort of their firm into something so interactive.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Thus is venture capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

. “For startups with revenue, RBI may be a good option because, even though the startup may not be profitable, it can reduce dilution — especially for founders,” said Emily Campbell of The Campbell Firm PLLC, a law firm that represents serial entrepreneurs and venture-backed businesses.

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JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. So here is what I have been telling entrepreneurs privately for the past 6 months. source: Capital IQ. What a bubble means for each entrepreneur. I believe that. Why I believe we’re in a bubble.

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APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. You can ask around to startup lawyers and other entrepreneurs who know these things.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 13, 2020

This physical presence adds tremendous value in terms of knowledge of the local entrepreneurs, technical experts, strategic partners, local support systems etc. CEVG and E8 have collaborative cultures and are of course open to collaboration and syndication with groups located in other regions.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005. Redpoint, led by Geoff Yang , invested $11.5 of MySpace, Inc.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. So get out there and start raising your capital!

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

per annum] from 2005 to 2020, beating both the S&P 500 and gold by more than 200%,” Auslander said. million in pre-seed funding to prepare for its launch from investors including fashion entrepreneur Veronica M. “This particular stone has returned [11.5% The company has raised $2.5

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. You will present in front of hundreds of the most successful Angel investors and Venture Capital investors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2015

I remember reading about Google’s Android acquisition in 2005 and wondering what would become of the technology; and then later at Google seeing some of the first versions of the G1, the first Android phone. Yesterday, Redpoint announced something amazing: Andy Rubin, the creator of Android is joining Redpoint.

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MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

[link] — Dan Primack (@danprimack) February 25, 2023 I DM’d Dan to let him know that is not the right way to think about the venture capital business. Back in 2005, in the early days of this blog, I wrote this post on the topic. The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. You are also less likely to be an entrepreneur when your personal obligations, like family and mortgage pile up.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

A survey of US-born founders of 502 engineering and technology companies, founded between 1995 and 2005, showed that only 10% of founders had a Ph.D. To pick the best prospect, entrepreneurs need to hustle more. link] Entrepreneur First added to demonstrate an alternative ‘talent investing’ model. How May Ph.D.

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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. On the other hand, exits at lower prices are easier with these providers of capital.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

How tech startup fundraising changed from 2005 to now. In 2005, when Y Combinator started, there was already a well developed ecosystem of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and Boston. But access to those venture capital firms was limited. In the venture creation model, the VC firm creates the company.

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APRIL 20, 2012

So here's when I see people tend to raise: Entrepreneur + Approach to a Market. Entrepreneur + Kinda Workable Demo/Alpha + Little to No Data on Traction. This is a confusing one for entrepreneurs--because some people get this round done but others don't. That's all they have--no demo no code--and they get funding.

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MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Passionate Entrepreneurs & Ambassadors. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. He’s been at it since 2005. We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

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. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

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. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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