Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. Exactly the opposite of what a rational investment strategy would advise. The road ahead.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

This is the heart and soul of entrepreneurship?—?we I build an investable asset out of code. You pay me cash to invest in that asset. Example: I Bought Bitcoin in 2006. A slant towards entrepreneurship. We protect the brand and in doing so, reject 95% of our submissions. We value our readers over our revenue.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VCs invested over $5.5 billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. While they are not primarily focused on Texas, they are starting to invest locally, as well.”. Notably, S3’s investment thesis is focused on Texas. Comparisons to Silicon Valley.

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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. Entrepreneurship is not easy. With a full-time job, investing more time in learning new skills through courses and special training will only result in pointless delays in establishing your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Those were the dog days of entrepreneurship. 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. In an early round of investment where there is not an extremely high price relative to normal valuations this is anything but benign.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

But the most interesting is that all of his stories involved entrepreneurship. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform. Actually, I’ve done this! He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds.

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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. It was for learning entrepreneurship. I then wrote a seed round investment check of $500,000 to HubSpot. This was unfortunate, because I liked angel investing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Nancy Pfund is founder and managing partner of DBL Partners , a venture capital firm whose goal is to combine top-tier financial returns with meaningful social, environmental and economic returns in the regions and sectors in which it invests. This approach is a smart investment for agriculture players looking to reduce their climate impact.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Interior of the Batcave, 2006 ( Jake Dobkin / Gothamist). Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

from 2006 to 2011, respectively.¹ What percent of emerging fund managers are raising for and investing in pre-seed or seed — which is the opportunity bottleneck — versus Series A and B? For 2006-2011, this is 579/151 for 3.8x. For 2006-2011, this is 2,917/1,325 for 2.2x. compared to 1.4x from 2016 to 2021, 1.4x

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

We trade emails on the topic of entrepreneurship often. We could do more in 2010 with more VC investment; the doubling assumes only ratable increase in marketing spend to achieve profitability. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We also discussed where YC’s investing capital comes from and whether, given the market slowdown, YC will be changing its terms to reflect that slowdown. GR: I actually count my tenure at YC from just after 2006, when I left Yahoo [and] started hanging out with Paul [Graham] and company, so really, almost 16 years.

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