TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii. Earlier, she led Finance at a major solar manufacturer. Gabriel Scheer — Elemental Excelerator. Victoria holds an MBA and M.S. She also holds a B.S. He holds a B.A.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

I started out as a lawyer, corporate finance lawyer, for about two and a half years. A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I joined EO Accelerator in 2009, when I owned a business and my business owned me. Aaron Lee is the CEO and founder of iluma Agency (formerly Illuminati Studios) and joined EO South Florida in 2011. . I had been bumping up against the growth ceiling for 10 years and needed to understand why I was in business.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I would argue that the shut-down of September 2009 was equally severe yet there are signs that this “VC Ice Age” has begun to thaw. It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

That includes over $50 million from Goldman Sachs to help back the company’s green building financing, as well a $30 million investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. First of all, once it got some building owners involved, there was a big word of mouth effect, and that helped get more owners on board.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

The organization serve as an informal business advisory board. … 2009: Know what you stand for and surround yourself with people who are aligned with that mission. We grew our customer count 30% in 2009. I certainly did. Bonus lesson: Set your domain name to auto-renew!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

If I look back to the beginning of the current tech boom which started around 2009, we often wrote a $3–5 million check and this was called an “A round” and 12 years later in an over-capitalized market this became known as a “Seed Round” but in truth what we do hasn’t changed much at all.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

First, board directors are encouraging companies to remain unprofitable longer to pursue bigger outcomes. Instead, venture capital growth funds are financing these companies at these stages. The fraction of small IPOs with negative EBITDA has doubled to nearly 90% in about 30 years. Small IPOs. . Large IPOs. . Number. % < 0.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

Box had just 50 employees and was hitting an inflection point when I joined in 2009, so there was far more work to do than people to do it. The first was in July of 2014, when we made the unusual move of raising and announcing another round of private financing while on file to go public. Two additional moments stand out to me.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I came from a board meeting to here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) Short answer: no.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x The Invoca board and Mark gathered and discussed how our process was going. Great companies get financed. And the narrative may tell you something about your own journey one day.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

We report that “this is the largest decentralized finance hack to date.”. The company has been around since 2009 and just launched a new set of tools. Europe startups are having a good year so far : We’ve written about a slowdown in venture-backed deals in different regions, including the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? This has worked very well in the 2009-2012 time frame because the tech market has boomed in this period. They often don’t have board seats attached to them. Some thoughts on raising angel money. So let me weigh in more loudly than in the past.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I ran a team of 14 people (12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk … both of whom were fluent in Japanese) who produced an Internet strategy for the board of Sony. My first corporate job was at First Interstate Bank where I worked in Corporate Finance. I got to experience much of the local culture and customs. Close enough.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. As you can see below, investments have skyrocketed – up 300% since 2009. In 2009 many deals got done at $4-5 million pre and in the past few years some of these deals have gotten done at $10-12 million pre (or higher).

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

She wants to figure out how to finance the billions of dollars in much-needed NYCHA repairs. After selling Manhattan GMAT in 2009, he started Venture for America, which aimed to create 100,000 new U.S. She wants to field complaints about flooded streets. Bike lanes. Property taxes. Charter schools. jobs by 2025.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Jody self-funded the company and worked from his spare bedroom in February 2009. He stresses the importance of his initial legwork getting his “champions” on board before going to AngelList and feels this is a crucial first step for any startup. His passion stemmed from what he saw moms doing. A Quick Look at Jody’s Previous Success.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

You’ll find dozens of articles on keeping your deck to 10 slides or how you must have a board of advisers slide, but we base our thesis on some more tangible examples. For example, on their 2009 pitch deck, Airbnb had a market validation slide to support their thesis that people would be willing to stay on strangers’ couches.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

If you’re thinking about raising VC and have not yet started the process, you’ve probably already missed the boat for 2009. VC’s are never really “off.&# Just like entrepreneurs they take calls from vacations, do board calls, handle company emergencies and urgent financings.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Stripe’s launch in 2009 made it possible for startups to easily collect payments online via developer-friendly APIs. Once they began to onboard customers, Brex found that the demand for seamless finance was even bigger than they had initially imagined. This alone translates to hours of time saved for employees and finance teams.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

CEO Karkal has a long history in the fintech space, co-founding Simple, an app unifying various accounts into one accessible bank card, in 2009. As part of the investment, Clara Sieg, partner at Revolution Ventures, is joining the company’s board. It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Can you do this online before your visit, or are you handed a clip-board full of forms where you enter information you have already provided on previous visits? In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Do they respond?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. Finance where needed. Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. Why is that? But probably because as a group we travel a lot.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Series A is the first outside capital Zonos has raised since it was founded in 2009, Clint Reid, founder and CEO, told TechCrunch. As part of the investment Todd MacLean, managing partner at Silversmith Capital Partners, joined the Zonos board of directors.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. So backing up on how healthcare is financed, let’s say you got a plan with basically no deductible, so you’ve got first dollar coverage.

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