TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. Markets have reacted, and valuation multiples for both public and private companies have been heavily compromised, leaving growth investors in fear of losing the opportunity to secure targeted returns.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Jeremy Abelson Contributor Share on Twitter Jeremy Abelson is the founder and lead portfolio manager of Irving Investors. Simply put, equity risk premiums (ERPs) have broken down well below the ranges that were established since 2008. Opportunity cost is powerful indeed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy founded theBoardlist , a premium talent marketplace that helps diverse leaders get discovered for board and executive opportunities. I continued to listen to non-e-commerce pitches as well, simply to give myself a point of reference for evaluating online shopping opportunities. More posts by this contributor.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The truth is that Twitter is an amazing company and still has an amazing opportunity in front of it. But like many companies over the past five years it hired aggressively and probably had some degree of straying off of a core strategy and some amount of excess jobs relative to its current revenue forecasts and opportunities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan, however, will continue to serve as founder and partner at Initialized – a $3.2 Tan was a YC founder in the summer of 2008 and served as a partner there from December 2010 to November 2015.

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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. As fundraising gets harder, founders should ask investors for a flat round. Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Or, should they seize the moment, recognizing the immense opportunity before them and take proactive steps to harness it? For Latin American nations and companies, a golden opportunity awaits. However, it’s vital to acknowledge that while opportunities abound, they come with challenges. This potential is not to be missed.

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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. Five Flute’s founders shared their slightly redacted pitch deck with us. “We all know how that turned out.”

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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. We see tremendous opportunity for innovation in the world of B2B payments. What’s the most important thing a founder should know before they get on a call with you?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. Hamet is an extension of this strategy. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. I stayed close. What does that mean?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

I’m a co-founder of a company in the ultra-competitive online education market, with more than 2.5 Maybe in the past, it was helpful to think of competitors as foes, but the modern world is so interconnected that this perspective doesn’t allow us to see new opportunities, stands in the way of improving, and, as a result, weakens our products.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Alpha is a zero-sum game ”, according to Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio. However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. Rolling ten-year returns have steadily declined across hedge fund strategies.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Tatiana, current Co-Founder and Director of Impact Hub Amsterdam, takes over from Gabriela Gandel, who led the network for the past 10 years. Our collective strategy Ambition 2030 represents the promise of Impact Hub when I first joined as a member (Impact Hub Islington, 2005). Why this role?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

According to Kyle Poyar, a partner at OpenView, the current downturn is creating similar opportunities for SaaS startups. Many founders start by building a 10-slide pitch deck, but AR car hardware company WayRay’s Series C presentation contained 75 slides. ” Thanks very much for reading, Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Since Thanksgiving is less than a week away, I’ll take this opportunity to say how truly thankful I am to be given the trust and confidence to draft this newsletter and for you all to take the time to read and share it. inflation remains above 7% and short-term borrowing rates are at their highest level since January 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. And for many of these they were (over) funded 7-10 years ago and don’t necessarily all represent great returns for investors or founders. I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&#

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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. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Tatiana Glad, current Co-Founder and Director of Impact Hub Amsterdam (since 2008), brings diverse experience to our global leadership team. Tatiana says, “It is an honour to step into this role and have the opportunity to build on the legacy of our past decade and help forge the next one. Petruta Stoica, Finance Director.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

The founders in this piece all faced these challenges before launching startups that earned them millionaire status. 8 Surprising Strategies for Unstoppable Focus. Whitney Wolfe, founder of the female-empowered dating app Bumble , stays on track by asking herself the question of nine. Never have an exit strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ). And so it goes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

If that entrepreneur has enough money to conservatively make it work (but not quickly), he or she can go it alone, but the business will not scale quickly and it may lose its niche opportunity. Today, Whitaker is founder and CEO of LucasColorCard, one of the country’s premier manufacturers of loyalty, membership and library cards.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Mitch Allen, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Fort Worth, is founder and Head Elf of Hire Santa , a service that brings the season to life with thousands of professionally trained Santas worldwide. I had many different strategies, but was not sure how it was going to work out. EO member Mitch Allen is one of them!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Consequently, US regulators have discouraged the selling of equity (shares) through crowd funding websites, so online companies, such as Kickstarter.com , offer the opportunity to donate funds to interesting US startup ventures in exchange for the right to become early product users or simply listed on the new ventures’ websites.

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StartupNation

JULY 27, 2021

As a new founder at the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey, you have many tasks at hand and little bandwidth to do them all. There are countless responsibilities, from everyday tasks like investor pitch decks and elevator pitches to longer-term tasks like business plan revisions , product launch strategy and much more.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

I heard this in an Entrepreneurs’ Organization Portland chapter monthly learning event with keynote speaker Mark Moses of Make Big Happen in 2008 at the beginning of the Great Recession. We enjoyed the opportunity to get creative with the brand, build a 70-person team and foster a solid company culture around it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. It’s important in aligning internal strategy, communicating with others, talking with partner, recruiting and, yes, raising VC. It’s just a part of your ongoing activities as a founder.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

By Ron Pelletier, founder and chief customer officer, Pondurance. As the founder of Pondurance, I’ve sat across the table from CEOs and CIOs of many small and midsize businesses who really believe that cybersecurity doesn’t apply to them. This is simply because there is a greater opportunity for success against SMBs.

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Feedough

MARCH 5, 2021

Leader: The CEO is essentially the leader of the company, leading the development of key short-term and long-term strategies and sets out to guide the executives who head the company’s different departments. Visionary: The CEO looks into the future for opportunities that the business can capitalise on. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

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Feedough

MARCH 5, 2021

Leader: The CEO is essentially the leader of the company, leading the development of key short-term and long-term strategies and sets out to guide the executives who head the company’s different departments. Visionary: The CEO looks into the future for opportunities that the business can capitalise on. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ( Recode ).

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Roofstock co-founder and chairman Gregor Watson and real estate investor Rob Bloemker started the venture firm in 2021, and had their first close last year. For example, 1Sharpe is interested in creating financial products that make real estate more equitable and that can “create opportunities for economic mobility.”. “We

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The CFE is a unit of the College of Engineering and the Center has helped more than 30,000 researchers and students since 2008. Kate Ryder , CEO and Founder of Maven Clinic – A unicorn-valued startup transforming digital healthcare. The U-M’s Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) is one of the key engines driving that growth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. So it will be something of a milestone. Basically we have a set of internal objectives.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. “In 10 days, I can do the primary research and work with the founders to come to a conclusion there. For a larger Series A check.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

The number one input to whether or not someone buys that next incremental piece of software or potentially engages that service provider is actually how well it interacts and interoperates with the other technology decisions they’ve already made to drive it some kind of bigger strategy. And that is absolutely transformational and huge.

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