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. This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. Seems an obvious fit.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In the early spring of 2009, the fundraising nuclear winter of the previous year hadn't yet thawed. Many of you entrepreneurs know that feeling. That product isn't money--it's their time, attention, sound advice and network. It would be months before Foursquare's first round touched off a NYC venture frenzy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Growing too slowly is particularly dangerous in a business with network effects, which the best startups usually have to some degree.” And so do entrepreneurs who are quick to pivot to new businesses or to sell in an acquihire. Some entrepreneurs can make a dent in a smaller world. “What exits have you had?

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Floodgate exists to invest in prime movers - entrepreneurs who build movements that become category defining companies - before the rest of the world believes in them. Taskrabbit; Nov 2009 What is one question you ask yourself before investing in a company? What is one piece of advice you’d give every founder? I love teaching.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

I’d like to offer you two “life hacks&# that I implemented in 2009 and one that I’m test driving in 2010. In fact, they were recently bought by a publicly traded company called Ditech Networks). Dmitry was giving me advice that he only ever has two folders at any point in time. I’m just getting started.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. As the mobile ecosystem has grown the industrialized world is now carrying a mini computer in their pocket that is connected to a cellular network. PHONE CALLS.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

Many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley believe that the financial services industry in the United States is “ripe for disruption. ” Consumers want faster, simpler, and cheaper transactions, and entrepreneurs want to give it to them. banking system is the Automated Clearing House network, broadly known as ACH.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Ramon Ray spent a few minutes talking to Clare Harris and Kate Hyde during the Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network in Singapore. Businesses supporting other businesses in a symbiotic relationship is always helpful for female entrepreneurs. About Talking Tables, Clare Harris. A Little Motivation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. And my specialty was computer networks. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. Then everyone just started calling me a serial entrepreneur. It was all technical.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. What did we owe our sponsors, and did that put us in conflict with our commitments to give founders the best possible advice, and to never waste their time?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. They wanted advice. This team is talented.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Last week, Kickstarter announced that people have backed more than 200,000 projects with $6 billion in pledges since the company launched in 2009. We frequently run articles with advice for founders who are working on pitch decks. Kickstarter’s CEO on the future of crowdfunding. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 11, 2023

(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.) Tether was the first USD stablecoin, and it was issued on the Omni network in 2014 (which is hosted on top of Bitcoin).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 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. ) ( Note to reader: this week’s essay is a continuation of my piece from last week, “A Samurai, a Knight, and a Yankee”.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. I have a young entrepreneur friend who IMs me a lot. tl;dr summary.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Software can be licensed to corporations to benefit employees and uses behavioral science to understand the reasoning behind financial decisions people make and to help democratize financial advice for the masses. PlainSight is a new networking app. Apply now to Pocketnest. PlainSight. EXPLORE DETROIT STARTUP JOBS. Love crypto?

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