Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

So if a fund was raised in 2006 and the next fund was raised in 2010 it’s possible that they have two funds that “cross over&# at the same time. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry. In a single fund of $100 million you might have 30 difference LPs.

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

There were over 200 as of 2006.” This is in contrast to going it alone in direct investments or publicly traded REITs and stocks. Wikipedia notes that “in 1996 there were about 10 angel groups in the United States.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We have an outstanding cohort of VCs ready to hear their pitches and follow up with tough Q&As — and we’re thrilled to add three more to the slate. In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. Did you miss the other Startup Battlefield VC judges?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We had agreed to sell the company to Salesforce.com and between the offer in December 2006 and the closing March 27th, 2007 I focused exclusively on the sale to Salesforce.com. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. As a result I freed up the time to get back into shape.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Improve your pitch: Startup Battlefield isn’t just thrilling to watch; it’s a masterclass in how investors think. All right, here are the final five business Brahmins who will help judge the Startup Battlefield pitch competition. Rich Wong joined Accel as a partner in 2006. Rich Wong , partner at Accel.

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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. “Before 9 a.m.,

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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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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

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”. I pitched a startup called “HubSpot”, which ended up being one of the ideas chosen. Q: How should I pitch my startup to you? (That was not a required course -- I picked it ). Not so fast.

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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.

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Feedough

APRIL 6, 2021

Ad Spies: Brands usually pay influencers to surreptitiously pitch its products to their followers without showing that it’s a paid gig. A couple wrote a blog, chronicling adventures in different Walmarts throughout the United States in 2006. Undercover Marketing Strategies. Blackberry.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Pitch perfect, you might think. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. ” Europe’s startup ecosystem was still immature and what now seems like aloofness was probably nothing more than a crude way to deter cold pitches from non-venture type businesses.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Vorboss was founded out of London back in 2006 initially as a software provider, but with the advent of cloud computing and due to growing demand from its customers, it pivoted some years back to connectivity — and it’s now benefiting from recent regulatory changes that open up existing infrastructure to newcomers.

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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. “The best working relationships are those built on an equitable footing with honesty and clarity.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Pitch perfect, you might think. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. ” Europe’s startup ecosystem was still immature and what now seems like aloofness was probably nothing more than a crude way to deter cold pitches from non-venture type businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The Central Texas Angel Network boasts over 110 members, and its website says that its members have pumped $120 million into nearly 200 startups since its 2006 inception. .” Meanwhile, the area has long had a strong base of angel investors funding companies at the very early stage.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. Two years earlier I saw another Boston based startup called Carbonite pitch a similar cloud backup solution to investors. Drew Houston was born in Acton, and met his co-founder Arash Ferdowsi at MIT.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

After working on the first Obama presidential campaign from 2006-2008, I had a fresh perspective on how to sell. Adapt your sales pitch to the current market. That means that your old sales pitch of “We can help you grow faster than ever!” One that works regardless of whether we’re in a bear or bull market.

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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. 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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. year old boy and another one due in 1 months. Many term sheets ensued. Tweet This Post Facebook.

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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. When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. 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

Robert Scoble interviewed me in 2006 about my startup, Koral. I wasn’t trying to pitch a tightly controlled message about my company. This video will be too long for most of you to want to watch (22 minutes) but provides a good example of how I think about this. We had a far ranging discussion.

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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. Many entrepreneurs come by with great pitches and say, “I’m hoping to have term sheets in the next 30 days.” I pitch a lot of LPs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

In addition to writing up founder pitches, they’ll also rank their favorites. In August 2006, AWS activated its EC2 cloud-based virtual computer, a milestone in the cloud infrastructure giant’s development. The pre-pitch: 7 ways to build relationships with VCs. yourprotagonist. Image Credits: Ron Miller/TechCrunch.

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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. “Our pitch is we make sugars from fiber so you don’t need to use cane sugar.” customers until it doubles production in 2006. the raw materials are products of the current agricultural industry.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Founded in 2006 — not in the Valley but Fishers, Indiana (near Indianapolis) — the initial aim of Formstack, Byers said, was to build a tool to make it easier to create online forms to gather customer information and more automatically channel that into relevant applications in the back office. Today, it no longer exists.

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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. If an investor does 90% life science deals, then pitching them an energy deal is probably not time well spent for anyone involved. The first funnel is thematic alignment with the investor.

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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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