Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. For years I saw companies pitching themselves as “mobile coupon companies&# and I never believed this would be a big idea. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As the entrepreneurs are hardly making any money to pay their personal bills, they devote a great deal of time and energy in making elaborate pitches for raising investment capital. Tinkering: The tinkering period lasted for almost 2 years from 2006 to 2008, where Andrew Mason first launched ‘The Point’ which eventually became Groupon.

disruption

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. Pitch perfect, you might think. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. market, choosing New York and L.A. over San Francisco for its American offices.

investment

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.

real estate

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. Pitch perfect, you might think. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. market, choosing New York and L.A. over San Francisco for its American offices.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. But if you invest smartly, and spread your risk over a large portfolio, the winners will pay for all the losers and return a nice overall profit.

incubation

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.

founder

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

” It will also use the funding to continue investing in its product, including adding in more integrations alongside the 250 it already has with a variety of big-name and lesser known email, payments, CRM, CMS and document storage services. “About 25% of our customers are already international, so there is huge potential there.”

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

However, Cleantech has long been considered an investing black hole where it’s impossible to make money. Here steps in Jason Holt, former staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, serial entrepreneur, and a seasoned investment advisor. Venture investment in the sector has remained pretty flat the last several years.

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

But the data shows a rapidly growing trend in accredited investors investing together. Trending Investment Strategies Global investor surveys have shown that since the crises of the early 2000s more affluent and sophisticated investors are choosing to invest in partnership with each other. There were over 200 as of 2006.”

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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.

VC

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But as my inbox teems with too many creator-focused startup pitches, products and opportunities to ever even consider, I’ve noticed a troubling trend — not all of these businesses are actually good for the creators they intend to serve. How do major tech acquisitions impact the people who monetize on those platforms?

startup

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.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

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. >50% of our revenue in now viral.

founder

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. Any deal – ANY DEAL – that was pre 9/11 was suddenly in question. ABC: Always Be Closing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

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. I wasn’t trying to pitch a tightly controlled message about my company. Might be true, but not in your best interests.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

“Sugar is a massive consumer of water and in contrast, there’s big sustainability pitch for what we do. ” Senkut and Felicis invested in Cambridge Glycosciences almost immediately after seeing the company’s presentation at Y Combinator. customers until it doubles production in 2006. Trust the process?

startup

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This led Roy Rodenstein (whose company Going.com was sold to AOL ) and others to discuss , what happens when VC’s need to invest across multiple funds. Even more complicated, VCs often invest from multiple funds or sub-funds into a single deal. And VC’s don’t like to invest across multiple funds.

investing

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

VC’s don’t invest 100% of their own money. They raise money from institutions who want to have some allocation of their investment dollars in a category known as “alternatives,&# which is supposed to mean higher risk, higher returns. And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

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.

venture capital

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A new enterprise fibre network is ready to deliver up to 100 Gbps (gigabits-per-second) high-speed internet to London businesses, as part of a £250 million ($290 million) investment in the city’s infrastructure. when it opened last year, and which pitches its connectivity as a core selling point for would-be tenants.

networking

TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Instead of going into a pitch meeting hoping to eke out favorable terms, Rafaeli advises entrepreneurs to interrogate investors with direct questions about liquidity, exit expectations and how they intend to add value over time. Will record levels of dry powder trigger a delayed explosion of startup investment? ” Whoops!

construction

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But VC is like congress. Because they know him or her.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

We’d meet once or twice a week, and work on the idea, and pitch it to law firms. What was your pitch even like? Brian Halligan [17:10] – Yep, if I thought there was, the arbitrage opportunity when we started HubSpot in 2006 was generating leads online. Back in 2006, it was hard.

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