Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. Tags: Start-up Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. When I went to raise money in 2006 I thought I knew every term in a term sheet but somehow I still got a bit duped by the option pool shuffle.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Think about venture capital. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. First Round Capital – No prizes for guessing what kind of firm they set out to build.

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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. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. Thus is venture capital. My blog was wiped out.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

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. With First Round Capital, Sequoia and Founders Fund obviously a lot of respected investors think highly of its potential. So get out there and start raising your capital!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. They should heed the age old advice that raising slightly more money while you can is always better than trying to optimize future valuations. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008.

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Feedough

APRIL 24, 2021

In 2006, Aytekin Tank founded JotForm as a side hustle while working full-time as a senior web developer in an Internet Media Company. A simple solution to this dilemma is to seek expert advice. Advertisement Should You Start Your Business While Working Full-Time? Find Funds For Your Business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

It reminds me a lot of how TechCrunch felt in 2006. Ryan talked about his transition from product manager to CEO and offers advice [1 minute]. Ryan offers advice for people who want to get into product management but don’t have a PM background [90 seconds]. Product Hunt.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Advice to managers, entrepreneurs. With a multitude of caveats, then, it might be worthwhile to your followers to heed the following advice: Anticipate the worst, prepare for it, and hope for the best! Take a lesson from Ford Motor Company and their prescient CFO and President in 2006 and 2007. A lesson from the recent past.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

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 Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So National Venture Capital Group endorsed it.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Tags: Startup Advice startup technology vc venture capital. portfolios.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. Once the cycle has passed it’s harder to capitalize.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. I became quite good friends with a journalist at the Financial Times and eventually helped her as she wrote a book on the venture capital industry. Robert Scoble interviewed me in 2006 about my startup, Koral. It started socially.

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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.&#. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. It’s that simple. Many term sheets ensued.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

It is publicly traded with a market capitalization of over $20 billion. I had promised myself I would at least enjoy grad school before "officially" jumping back into a startup and so I held off on officially launching HubSpot until the day I had my graduation ceremony (June 9, 2006). Note: this is not investment advice).

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JULY 10, 2012

Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city. Juniper and countless others.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Once you’ve been around for a few years, attracted some great people, landed real, paying customers and raised venture capital you’ve likely got a talented team around you. I had the CEO of a prominent site in 2006 come to me near tears about how she couldn’t take the stress of running her company any more.

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MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. 9mm – Investor: Sequoia Capital (Michael Moritz) – Read more: TechCrunch , PaymentsViews. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn. Rumored to be appox. Paperless billing for consumers.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

It quickly became impossible to raise venture capital. When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. It isn’t even a story about raising venture capital or M&A. It quickly became impossible to raise venture capital. Any deal. Things change.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were now set to close at $46 million in new capital. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. You can do it.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice. I had multiple term sheets to do my Series A financing. Many had the typical investor-friendly terms where entrepreneurs would get screwed and not even understand how they got screwed until many years later.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Craig Cannon [00:09:18] – I thought that was actually a really nice piece of advice that you gave because you interviewed at Yelp twice. It was like things were still happening, so I really wanted to– I didn’t want the ship to sail without me capitalizing on it a little bit. It really only takes one.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. “The invoicing company” “When they started, they didn’t position themselves so much as a startup or as a tech company,” recalls Skype founder Niklas Zennström, whose venture capital firm Atomico would eventually become a Klarna investor in 2012.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. “The invoicing company” “When they started, they didn’t position themselves so much as a startup or as a tech company,” recalls Skype founder Niklas Zennström, whose venture capital firm Atomico would eventually become a Klarna investor in 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. Since 2006 I have been lamenting what I see as “the Facebook problem&# – they are trying to lump me into one big social network. Seems kinda obvious or am I missing somethign?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

I started in 2006, learned garage doors, I was painting them at the time. But what we’ve learned is, private equity is warming our way, capital venture list… There’s so many people that want our cash flow, what they’re learning is, you were part of software. Owning A Job vs a Business. You started Infusionsoft.

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

In 2006, our group published a high-profile paper in Science on the concept of water filtration with nanotubes. But what inevitably happens is they end up relying on investors for strategic advice. Can they find a niche market to prove out their product and business model hypothesis, all the while minimizing the capital spend?

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