Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. The advantage is that in many of our best deals we now have $50+ million invested so we can really support entrepreneurs as their businesses scale. VCs have different views and strategies on this. Accel led the B, Morgan Stanley the C and now HIG the D.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland. Venture Kick was launched in 2007 with the vision to double the number of spin-offs from Swiss universities and draws from a jury of more than 150 leading startup experts in Switzerland. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. They should heed the age old advice that raising slightly more money while you can is always better than trying to optimize future valuations. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. So here is what I have been telling entrepreneurs privately for the past 6 months. What a bubble means for each entrepreneur. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Entrepreneurs are inherently risk takers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. But this strategy great depends on point 3. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 Availability of Capital.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Since its 2007 founding by Morris — who also co-founded Capital One Financial Services in 1994 — and Frank Rotman, QED has backed more than 150 companies, including 20 unicorns. In terms of strategy, Rotman notes that QED has continued to lead deals that it feels “passionate about being involved in.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Craig Cannon [00:09:18] – I thought that was actually a really nice piece of advice that you gave because you interviewed at Yelp twice. I think the relationship between creators and entrepreneurs is very similar. Craig Cannon [00:37:56] – Weird strategy. It really only takes one. Most people think, “Oh, man.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We sold that at the end of 2007 and I stayed on with MoneyGram International who acquired the company until the end of 2009. And I think when you’re as an entrepreneur, like you want to go solve a problem and it’s a lot of fun using technology to go and do that. You’re going to get lots of different advice.

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FundersClub

JUNE 30, 2017

" Brittany Laughlin of Lattice Ventures shares how more investors and entrepreneurs can take action to be allies and innovators to end harassment in the workplace in " A Better Path to Decency: Will tech lead the way? part 1 of 2). Ask Us Anything! " Did You Know?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 20, 2013

How many web entrepreneurs in their early 20''s would have ignored Fred Wilson when he said they should include comments in their blogging platform early on? In December of 2007, I wrote the following e-mail to Fred Wilson, Brad Burnham, and Bjian Sabet: "I met with David the other day about using Tumblr to power Path 101 career blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

What strategies to use, how to get attention, how to become “hot.” So this post is about how to best craft a strategy to launch at SXSW but you could substitute most major conferences like CES if you want. SXSW is where Twitter broke out in 2007. I get asked often how to best launch at SXSW. ” So go.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Interestingly, many years later, Square would use other innovative “cash giveaway” strategies to steal market share from Paypal (in addition to copying the give $5, get $5 model ). “ If you were selling a company to Google, would you trust Google’s banker to give you advice at the same time? Why would you want advice from them?

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