Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I started my second company while retaining a board seat at my first company. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. Exercise hadn’t been enough of a priority in 2008-09. We hired a new executive management team that had to be stormed, normed and performed. But now I’m nearly 42.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Everyone loves an underdog, which is why investors and tech journalists are so fond of discussing startups that launched during the Great Recession of 2008, like Airbnb, Uber, WhatsApp, Mailchimp, Square and Venmo. You may need more than one pitch deck. You may need more than one pitch deck. The send-ahead deck.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

2008 and 2000), not only have we seen outstanding companies being formed, we’ve also witnessed great venture firm performance during these windows,” he said. Rethinking growth targets, in light of the rising cost of capital, to focus more on efficiency in this environment is a consistent thread in board meetings these days.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

From CAIA : “Before 2008, a widely accepted rule of thumb was for a [hedge] seeder to expect 1% of revenues for each $1 million of seed capital. Disclosures: Blue Future Partners is a member of the LP Advisory Board of ff Venture Capital , where I was formerly a Partner. management fee, 10-15% carry, according to Troutman Pepper ).

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 15, 2013

When I started at Redpoint in 2008, I wanted to find every way of analyzing companies I could. I’ve found the Three Horizons helpful in pitch meetings and board meetings to think through the evolution of a startup’s business. Credit: Karl Scotland. The Three Horizons helps to think through that sequencing.

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Y Combinator

MAY 30, 2024

I might pitch it differently today depending on who I’m talking to — we do a lot more than that now — but that’s still the simplest distillation. "When the iPhone came out in 2008, that was the true end of my physics career." ” And it was all over, because he loves white boarding.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

From CAIA : “Before 2008, a widely accepted rule of thumb was for a [hedge] seeder to expect 1% of revenues for each $1 million of seed capital. Disclosures: Blue Future Partners is a member of the LP Advisory Board of ff Venture Capital , where I was formerly a Partner. management fee, 10-15% carry, according to Troutman Pepper ).

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

You will see in societies, people will just put a board outside of their house and start selling products. You have to go back to the drawing board and understand, why are people calling me, right? It’s not just us, this is 2008 to 2012. And my pitch used to be that, “Hey, I’m going to take you online.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

On a panel that I sat on with Ron in LA in 2008 he stated that there were no circumstances in which the founder should take money off of the table. By then I was still on the board of my first company but it hadn’t yet sold (it ended up selling in 2007 to a publicly traded French company). I believe this is wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. If you normally pitch 30 investors to get 3-4 interested in good circumstances all you’ve done by putting off your mess is decrease your odds of getting funded. It is 2010. This doesn’t suit anybody.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“This essay is dedicated to the great VC’s on my board who I am lucky to work with: Sameer Gandhi from Accel, Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed, and Kirsten Green from Forerunner. 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. Many entrepreneurs come by with great pitches and say, “I’m hoping to have term sheets in the next 30 days.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 10, 2024

The honorees will also either throw out the ceremonial first pitch from donor to recipient, deliver the game ball, or announce “play ball” to signal the start of the games. Contributed to EO by Dave Galbenski, an EO Detroit member who served as EO Global Chair in 2008-2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. In order to get a VC to agree to fund you, you need to get the entire partnership on board. Meet in person. Why buy me?

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 10, 2016

What he also did, unlike Giuliani, was advocate civilian review boards and neighborhood policing where cops worked together with their communities as partners. in 2008, I was in a failing business that I had started. It means speaking and taking pitches in front of more diverse communities.

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