Both Sides of the Table

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. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. What a bubble means for each entrepreneur.

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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. Other than that, we place significant weight on the founder’s attitude.

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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. It’s always such a pleasure for me to spend time with Farb because he has all of the enthusiasm and energy you love to see in entrepreneurs. Tags: Start-up Advice. MetaMarkets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

While taxes are high, entrepreneurs won’t find the staggering income inequality so often seen in cities like San Francisco and New York. Adyen launched in 2006, and in June 2018, it was listed as one of Europe’s largest tech IPOs with a value of €7 billion. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Young looks back at “five key failure points” that are common potholes on every founder’s path and shares tactical advice for addressing internal conflict, losing product-market fit and other stumbles. “If these reflections help even one founder make one less mistake, I would consider this effort worthwhile.”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2020

However, there are some entrepreneurs whose grit never let them give up. Entrepreneur By Blood. René Lacerte hails from a family of entrepreneurs. René founded Bill.com in 2006. Are you struggling to grow your business? The ongoing pandemic has hurt most small businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Founder Collective – If you were an early-stage startup and wanted to be funded by entrepreneurs who had walked in your shoes before, you wouldn’t have to stretch the imagination far to think of what “Founder Collective” is meant to stand for. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs. I had run 2 companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

And for some strange reason entrepreneurs didn’t share this information. I’ve started from day one trying to build total transparency into my process with entrepreneurs. This starts with understanding how VCs and entrepreneurs often see valuation differently. Back then VentureHacks didn’t exist.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

When I sent out 300 invites in early 2006 people thought I was crazy. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. &# In a way, LinkedIn has become mostly a chore for me – a place to provide intros for two people that I know. Facebook has much more value to me as a networking tool.

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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. But with the right strategy, decisions and action plan, you can start your dream business and become a successful entrepreneur. A simple solution to this dilemma is to seek expert advice.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

From entrepreneurs to emerging businesses to small businesses — this is where innovation comes from. Christensen at Harvard Business School in 2006. Chris is encouraging all entrepreneurs and leaders to think about your now, next, and new, whether it's with AT&T small business or someone else across the globe. Final Words.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. Everything was quite painful as an entrepreneur. And it just seemed obvious to me that someone would make a better bank product for for startups and for entrepreneurs. We’d love to hear any advice that you have for early founders.

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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. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. My blog was wiped out.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs ! So eventually the money has to start flowing.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 2. “…if you look at a lot of the early stage investors, whether it be Union Square Ventures or First Round or Jeff Clavier at Softtech or Dave McClure – we want to try the product, we want to experience the product, we want to get a sense of how the entrepreneur is thinking about it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

I wrote several of the characteristics when I did the Top 10 (11) Attributes of an Entrepreneur. Back in 2006 Facebook made a conscious decision to encourage the platform ecosystem even if it meant creating large businesses like Zynga (Slide & RockYou were the initial big players) that could make a lot of money off of Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London.

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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 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Don’t know the running rate for engineers?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2017

In 2006, we officially launched Punchkick Interactive. I remember seeing a web banner for the EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (EO GSEA) while working toward my graduate degree, so I decided to go ahead and nominate myself. ZD / “The advice channel is the single biggest component to going flat at Punchkick.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

And more embarassingly to me Garindra Prahandono gave me this link to an article written by the guru of web design, Jakob Nielsen about the 1/9/90 rule written back in 2006. T-shirt can be ordered here: Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Robert Scoble interviewed me in 2006 about my startup, Koral. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Sales & Marketing Advice Social Media Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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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.&#. A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. This made me think hard about the relationship between VCs and entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Some entrepreneurs make the mistake of never devolving power. So you internalize much as a CEO, which is why groups like YPO are so important for super successful entrepreneurs. I had one of these “chief psychologist&# moments last week with one of my favorite young entrepreneurs. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I know you’re thinking that you have your head on straight but I promise you the experience of finding yourself in this maelstrom will leave any first time entrepreneur spinning. We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology. Don’t drink it. I had a plan.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 9, 2018

Members of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) take part in regular Forums. Fellow Forum members don’t give advice; they speak from prior experience, letting you draw your own conclusions on how to best proceed. That was in 2006. These confidential meetings with seven to 10 peers are a highly rated benefit of membership.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

That way, I still get to stay in touch with the thrill of startups, but I could do it vicariously through other entrepreneurs. The Entrepreneur vs. Investor Dilemma. Note: this is not investment advice). Look up Brad Feld and Jason Calacanis, they have really great advice and support resources for angel investing.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital. Many had the typical investor-friendly terms where entrepreneurs would get screwed and not even understand how they got screwed until many years later. They said they believed in aligning investor and entrepreneur incentives. I totally agree.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. Conversely I offered the same deal to another entrepreneur who decided to shop around longer.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

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. One of the major trends I’ve outlined is this movement of entrepreneurs (and as a lagging indicator venture funds) to more urban environments.

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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. I think the relationship between creators and entrepreneurs is very similar. It really only takes one. Most people think, “Oh, man. Jarvis Johnson [00:13:06] – Yeah, no.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 20, 2013

” I have long thought about and written about the personal toll that being an entrepreneur places on your life. These were amongst some of the most read blog posts I have written, which shows me that the stress, pressures and loneliness of being and entrepreneur resonates. They start with their own journey. Not I long for it.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. Since 2006 I have been lamenting what I see as “the Facebook problem&# – they are trying to lump me into one big social network. Enter Facebook.

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