Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on my background. I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

” I found myself nodding through all of it with quotes like, “Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley,” said Sam Altman. They now have a strong VC lead from Foundry Group and from experience when you get advice from Foundry it comes with authority, experience, empathy and the right amount of straight talk.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. In both cases, about 25% of their overall investments went into fintech startups. Gone are the days of investing on a whim. And, while global fintech funding slid by 46% to $75.2

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I’m obviously only naming a small fraction of their investments since I don’t feel inclined to research them all and many other great venture firms have this kind of access. It’s hard for me to imagine that angel investing outcomes judged 10 years from now will have a drastically different profile. Or the CEO?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. Ironic to be self-centered while you’re trying to offer advice to others. But how can you invest in technology unless you’re going to use the tools and understand them? In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

The end of the lengthy startup boom that first formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and largely powered through until the final months of 2021 is shaking out, changing how the market views certain entities. And some crypto investments that looked to be massive wins have sputtered.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Like many modern VCs, we’re committed to investing in the community and in our portfolio companies. Startup Advice' Let’s start with the fund. This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains. So, too, investments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

“Decreased consumer confidence, inflated brand value, and a freeze in investment capital are creating a perfect storm,” says David Wright, co-founder and CEO of Pattern, an e-commerce accelerator. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. “We all know how that turned out.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a startup entrepreneur who is actively growing his business, Peter recently attended the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in Denver, Colorado, where he pitched Table and Desk in EO’s first DX Angel-Shark Experience and received a US$250,000 investment in his company. . Our clients ranged from not-for-profits to luxury boatbuilders.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The speaks to the continued confidence in the venture capital markets and as I had predicted some time ago the VC markets right now are a great place to invest – especially relative to other places to put one’s money. Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012. But that’s it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Tags: Start-up Advice. LibreDigital.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

It’s meant to be a bit provocative but the reality is that I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the the time and I usually leave the “e&# off of the end. I normally offer this advice in the capacity of really wanting to help entrepreneurs so please bear with me. It is 2010. The list goes on.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2019

In a review of MBA students, the study found about 36 percent of females chose a risky career in finance (like investment banking or trading), compared to 57 percent of their male counterparts. There are times in life when playing it safe is good advice—like wearing a seatbelt, for example, or looking both ways before crossing the street.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. This has a tangible impact on the valuation of start-ups and the pace of investment. If Stanford has to cut back on VC investing, you can imagine how bad it is getting. million – take it.

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Forward Cities

JANUARY 30, 2020

It is extremely vital to me and my team that we ‘even the playing field’ and create even more opportunities and invest in these neglected and underserved areas that are still impacted by past corruption. I graduated from Michigan State University with a BS in Clinical Laboratory Science in 2008. A: You have to support each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment). Just because the valuation in absolute terms isn’t a big difference does not mean that people aren’t paying higher than intrinsic value for these investments.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Join the rest of the nation including equity crowdfunding platforms like 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors, where currently only accredited investors are allowed to invest. Even the more realistic projection, $300 billion , is 10 times the current VC investment market. So why the hold up?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Money Advice. You want to be investing when everybody else is scared. What the pandemic has done and what the recession did in 2008 and 2009 is refocus everybody back to the cash flow stage. . You're going to be greedy when people are scared and then you should be scared when people are being greedy.”. The Numbers of It.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. They should heed the age old advice that raising slightly more money while you can is always better than trying to optimize future valuations. Short answer – yes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

What is your advice for entrepreneurs to achieve such longevity? My advice for longevity is to always stay tuned to your values. You believe that leaders should embrace their culture and values more deeply in a crisis and cite the 2008 Great Recession as an example. This was a defining moment in our culture. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

It’s the one bit of advice I find myself giving most frequently these days, “raise money at the top end of normal.&#. If you invested in the first angel round of a startup company it is usually very hard to sell your stock – usually for many years if ever at all. Here’s what I mean. They are pretty illiquid.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

In 2008 Eric co-founded his own startup, RockMelt, and ran the company as CEO until its acquisition by Yahoo last year. We believe that successful early-stage venture investing is just that: a craft. Eric expects to spend the majority of time investing, among other things, in enterprise and infrastructure companies.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She is also principal of Broadway Realty, investing in, and repurposing, historic properties. Salyer made the decision to take her community service commitment to a new level in November 2008 when she successfully ran for the Ward 6 City Council seat. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I told him that our market was absolutely booming and was worthy of a commensurate investment. Not that I’ll take credit for what I’m about to announce, but I knew that if somebody could commit to building out LA and making the investments required to kick ass in this market it would be Cooley. Invest they have.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

Though he made various investments in tech during the late ’90s, the dot-com crash and 9/11 flushed all that cash down the drain. They launched SEMrush at the height of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. So they had to make a key decision of when to raise investments at the right time. Gorny was forced to start all over.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2012

I had been looking around at several deals in late 2008 as the markets were tanking. It mapped pretty well to my dream team for an A round investment. The other VC offered to invest $2 million alongside my $2 million so the company would be getting more money.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

Currently, I’m blessed that my portfolio is near all-time highs and I’m up 600% from my initial investment. Here’s the advice I wish someone told me when I started. Selling good investments too early because you don’t realize what you’re holding. You can invest in smaller projects later. But it wasn’t always this way.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. The Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo investment banking scene is very close-knit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Clearly, Alexandria, Virginia-based QED was investing in fintech before fintech was “cool.” The firm has come a long way from when it closed its first fund — $30 million of internal capital — in 2008. It has so far made one investment out of that growth fund, which has not yet been publicly announced. “We

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) The green trend channel shows that yields broadly fell as the Fed’s balance sheet ballooned in size.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

” I interviewed Gupta last month to find out more about the opportunities he’s looking for and get his advice for first-time founders, but last week’s Space was a chance to dive deeper. I think climate investing, what I do, is still extremely brisk. It could take a little bit longer than that, but not that much.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Fast-forward to today: Against the backdrop of inflation, the stock market in 2022 saw its worst drop since 2008, and companies are laying people off while tightening their purse strings. Where else can you invest to drive higher returns and to build a more durable competitive advantage?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2017

Ryan Unger (RU) / “It was 2008, and Zak and I were still building our business from the ground up. TO SUPPORT YOUR FLAT INFRASTRUCTURE, YOU INTRODUCED TWO AVENUES OF PEER ENGAGEMENT—AN ADVICE CHANNEL AND A FEEDBACK CHANNEL. ZD / “The advice channel is the single biggest component to going flat at Punchkick.

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