2006 advice investing pitching 
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. Will record levels of dry powder trigger a delayed explosion of startup investment? ” On Thursday, January 19 at 10 a.m.
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. It included some well known firms that made me come for a team pitch and then only gave me literally 15 minutes when we’d scheduled an hour. My blog was wiped out. Tempus Fugit.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Because you have multiple forces at work.
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APRIL 13, 2011
My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. “My This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad on blogging.
OnStartups
MARCH 24, 2021
An Odd Start To My Angel Investing. So I thought of an idea: Why not invest in startups? Angel investing is like having a niece or nephew. During the first week of that class, we all had to do a short pitch of a startup idea and convince our classmates to join our “startup”. Best laid plans and all that. Not so fast.
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. 2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital. I tried to argue my views on vesting to a company I tried to invest in 2 years ago.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 22, 2010
File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Help them better do their job – I’ve always been a big believer that relationships with journalists are a long-term investment. Robert Scoble interviewed me in 2006 about my startup, Koral. Might be true, but not in your best interests.
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