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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

based tech founders are welcomed with open arms. 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. For this survey, we interviewed the following Amsterdam-focused investors: • Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC. Bas Godska , founder, Acrobator Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Under normal circumstances, one might expect the founders of Radian6 and Q1 labs to disappear into the suburbs of Cambridge or Marin Country, but that never happened.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

A definitive founder’s guide would have to include chapters like, “So you’ve hired the wrong person,” or, “Five ways to tell if an investor is lying to you.” Investors say they want to add value, but for founders under pressure, it’s hard to know exactly when to ask for help. Walter Thompson.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. I’ve been an entrepreneur since 2006. I do think it’s important.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC. True Ventures – When I was raising capital for my second company back in 2006 I had talked to many brand-name VCs and had several term sheets. Not versus every other VC but versus many. I know that I call them often to co-invest.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

My primary role was “chief psychologist&# and as I’ve learned over the past few years the same has been true as a VC. Howard Lindzon weighed in with his comments : “As a CEO of a venture backed business myself and founder of many others, I would add one thing… Thick Skin. Both are basically people businesses.

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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. It’s that simple.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. The meme was kicked off by Chris Dixon with this post saying that term sheets need to be simplified and align investor / founder interests. I have this mentality, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Deal evaluations the Foundry way, which continues into a great discussion about VC decision-making processes. “So and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., Is that when it became big? was starting. Human Computer Interaction. Distribution.

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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. The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. We then had a piece in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Europe, we ran front cover of Tornado Insider (the top VC magazine in Europe at the time). If you need VC, no better time than the present. We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006.

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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

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Use the fact that you were on an anointed list to build credibility when you eventually approach journalists (and VC’s, customers, employees). Given a choice of your marketing person or talking to you (the founder) there’s no competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. Many deals – VC or otherwise – didn’t close. When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. Especially in VC.

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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. Siemiatkowski left undeterred.

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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. Siemiatkowski left undeterred.

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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. The market potential, business model, and technology sounded compelling enough that I joined them as a third co-founder later that year. But what inevitably happens is they end up relying on investors for strategic advice.

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