Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. They weren’t with you when you did the VC pitch where you looked them in the eyes 9 months ago and said, “I see only one outcome, we want to build something really big. Call me when you’re ready to leave.” “Dude, we saw a bunch of those last year. Sorry, brah.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

So our pitch went. There was a meme that started going around LPs around 2005 that “I’m not sure LA is really its own venture market” and some LPs actually believed that. I call this arming & aiming and it’s critical in building a sales organization. “Listen. In a hosting facility?

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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. Pitch perfect, you might think. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

What is also notable is how Odoo pitches itself. The company has been growing revenues and customers at a rate of 50% over the last 10 years (and 63% over the past 15 — it’s been around since 2005), and it now has 1,700 employees with plans to add another 1,000 this year. Billings are expected to be €160 million in 2021.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 30, 2020

It came to a successful close in November with a final pitch event at adidas Headquarters in Herzogenaurach. Of the 40 ventures that applied to the program, 11 were selected to take part and the top three were picked by an expert jury after the final presentation and pitch. The winning changemakers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

” ‘It was perfect timing’ Pitching more than 100 investors, Shells says it took around six months to close the seed round. in 2005, Umubyeyi studied political science at the University of Notre Dame, believing that was the way to create positive change. “What we’re doing is super needed in the market.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

” “It was perfect timing” Pitching more than 100 investors, Shells says it took around four months to close the seed round. in 2005, Umubyeyi studied political science at the University of Notre Dame, believing that was the way to create positive change. “What we’re doing is super needed in the market.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

government essentially shut them down in 2005, he said. Whurley pitched him to invest in the company. In 2001, for six months, Whurley left Austin to follow a girl to Las Vegas and to break into casinos as a hired hacker. He returned to Austin to launch a cybersecurity startup, Symbiot. That company was super cool,” Whurley said.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It was woman-owned, which I liked, and I went through my pitch with Lisa. We scheduled an initial production run for early April 2005, since it was going to take a while to get everything lined up. I connected with a relatively small co-packing operation in Chicago that manufactured a range of food and beverage products. Fruit extract.

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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. Pitch perfect, you might think. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone.

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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. Two years earlier I saw another Boston based startup called Carbonite pitch a similar cloud backup solution to investors. Back in 2005 no one anticipated the success of YCombinator, not even its founders.

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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. Because of their scarcity, they have historically had a low correlation to traditional markets and have provided a stable return during periods of broader volatility and inflation, according to Auslander. The company has raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

S3 Ventures founder and managing director Brian Smith notes that when he started the firm in 2005, venture capital in Texas was finally starting to recover from the dot.com bust. Earlier in the month, S3 Ventures raised $250 million for its Fund VII, touting itself as “the largest venture capital fund focused on Texas-based startups.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

In 2005, Gmail claimed the title of most sophisticated app. That design language dominated the fundraising pitch designs of the epoch starting with Apple events : black backgrounds, thin fonts, & smooth transitions. Then, we added interactivity with Javascript. Next, the first mobile apps were launched.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

He’s been at it since 2005. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. I believe this is wrong. Let me start with a couple of stories. A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. You have an “hour” to pitch in your first meeting. Prepare to give your pitch in 30 including Q&A.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. ” Tomasz Tunguz: Great sales pitch, please come do this. And then from 2004 to 2014, she was at Google and managed lots of different things, including the self-driving cars project, global sales and operations, and the business teams for checkout in Google Apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. If you normally pitch 30 investors to get 3-4 interested in good circumstances all you’ve done by putting off your mess is decrease your odds of getting funded. It is 2010. This doesn’t suit anybody.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

For years I did my own PR, pitching my products and services to editors of magazines and producers of TV shows. In 2000, I started writing educational skincare content, which led to the creation of my popular skincare blog in 2005. Advertising = telling people how good you are. The latter gives you way more credibility.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. Why buy me?

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