TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

” Mar is a successful serial entrepreneur, with numerous industry accolades. “Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii. Mar has been recognized in the Midas List of Top Tech Investors in 2021.” He holds a B.A.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

This is something I think entrepreneurs don’t totally understand and it’s worthwhile they do. Entrepreneurs started demanding that VCs call their first-round financings “seed” rounds even if they were $3 million. Why the latter? and there''s always a but]. I saw this myself a few times in a row.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 20, 2022

As the e-commerce industry continues to boom and work from home remains a trend amongst the corporate sector, more entrepreneurs are using their funds to create new digital startups in a number of niches. In fact, VC-based funding has boomed within the last decade, reaching a whopping $753B worth of investments since 2009.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

In 2008-2009, the financial markets seized up, and there were quarters of complete uncertainty, but ultimately VCs started investing again and things normalized. The crisis began in August 2008, but by March 2009, deal activity in venture had picked up again and economic activity in the venture ecosystem normalized. The risk paid off.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

But in 2006, I found my peer group by joining the Entrepreneurs Organization —and it was a game-changer. … 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. The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. “I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs. 5 years ago. Since then? None have exited.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 30, 2020

In fact, according to a 2009 study by Dane Stangler for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation , more than half of Fortune 500 companies were started during a recession. Good entrepreneurs use the hidden opportunity of recession times to supplement their income or launch a new venture for a variety of reasons. Since 1900, the U.S.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2016

Truth be told, I still believe the best ROI to be had is in the very first round, but now even a small follow on will help an entrepreneur answer whether all their existing investors are participating. I highly recommend that any new investor builds out a cash flow model around their strategy. 3) Have a consistent focus.

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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? The strategy to minimize loss is not the strategy to win.

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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. As an entrepreneur, I’m drawn to the concept of Shark Tank. It’s like the Super Bowl for entrepreneurs!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. I stayed close.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. female entrepreneurs face in accessing VC funding versus male counterparts. .

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But if you are starting a company, responsible for part of an organization, or making bets on entrepreneurs, you are most likely to succeed if you act as a sponge. Before founding db5 in 2009, Chris served as Chief Executive Officer at Hall & Partners USA. Likely, you’re probably not the next Zuckerberg or Bezos.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. I’d like to do a few posts on what life looks like on the way up and perhaps how to keep your head on straight and avoid drinking your own Kool Aid because as I often advise entrepreneurs on irrational exuberance, “ In a strong wind even turkeys can fly.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. The best VCs don’t try to help entrepreneurs. But VC is like congress. hours / day.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Ironically enough, the second nudge she gave my career also had to do with AOL--ten years later when in 2009, she introduced me to Jon Brod who was forming AOL Ventures. Does that make it a viable strategy for every new entrepreneur? Call it simplistic and naive, but being who you are, in my book, is always a winning strategy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TechCrunch is bringing together three venture capitalists — Yoon Choi from Muirwoods Ventures, Mar Hershenson from Pear VC and Gabriel Scheer from Elemental — to talk about their investment strategies, what’s hot and what’s not. Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. with Oliver Cameron (Cruise) and Laura Major (Motional).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

TechCrunch is bringing together three venture capitalists — Yoon Choi from Muirwoods Ventures, Mar Hershenson from Pear VC and Gabriel Scheer from Elemental — to talk about their investment strategies, what’s hot and what’s not. Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. with Oliver Cameron (Cruise) and Laura Major (Motional).

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

He started teaching e-commerce and helping others with it in 2009 and has been a staple in the industry. This is a marketing strategy that really works. John got into e-commerce a little differently — he was going bankrupt about 20 yrs ago and started selling stuff on eBay to make some money. Starting E-commerce: What To Do.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

TechCrunch is bringing together three venture capitalists — Yoon Choi from Muirwoods Ventures, Mar Hershenson from Pear VC and Gabriel Scheer from Elemental — to talk about their investment strategies, what’s hot and what’s not. Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. with Oliver Cameron (Cruise) and Laura Major (Motional).

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This is something I think entrepreneurs don’t totally understand and it’s worthwhile they do. Entrepreneurs started demanding that VCs call their first-round financings “seed” rounds even if they were $3 million. I haven’t obsessed about what definitions people choose for precisely the reason I would advise entrepreneurs not to.

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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. But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

These days that’s not the case and it’s a great outcome for entrepreneurs and for innovation. A: Only because it’s a nicer branding for entrepreneurs. I totally agree and have been arguing this to entrepreneurs for years. I always counsel young entrepreneurs to start on the local train.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. As you can see – they bring both executive & domain knowledge - which I’m on record as saying gives entrepreneurs “an unfair advantage.&#. I have to love both – but it’s in that proportion. I knew this from day one.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs in LA spend a lot of time commuting up to the Valley. For some, it’s a nightmare.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The best strategy is to mix approaches. Michael Klazema has been developing products for criminal background check and improving online customer experiences in the background screening industry since 2009. Without considering education and experience, you risk ending up with a person who is completely unqualified for the job at hand.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

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. The HFRI Index returned 18.3% annually over the last twenty years.

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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 then I got into strategy consulting, and I wanted to go into strategy consulting, and they said, “Yeah, but you’re a tech guy. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner. Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My macro theme was “great entrepreneurs&# who mapped to my belief system about the kind of entrepreneurs I wanted to work with. So my strategy was to focus on technology heavy companies who could bring measurability and performance to inefficient parts of the digital media landscape. This is becoming a huge business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Entrepreneurs are inherently risk takers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. Segment One: Jim’s background and Clearstone’s investment strategy. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66 Read more: TechCrunch.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

for the following venture strategies: American Dynamism ($600M), Apps ($1B), Games ($600M), Infrastructure ($1.25B), and Growth ($3.75B). We did this because we believe as former entrepreneurs that your investors really matter. I am pleased to announce that we have just raised $7.2B This marks an important milestone for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. But this strategy great depends on point 3. But while Net Burn is the more critical figure at first blush and what most investors will focus on, Gross Burn is not irrelevant.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 1, 2019

Written for EO by entrepreneur and philanthropist David Disiere. Mark Zuckerberg, for example, has been making his goals public since 2009. For many entrepreneurs, January means a new budget and the opportunity to evaluate last year’s achievements while setting forth new goals. It happens in an instant.

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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. The next important group to spot the weakness in Techstars’ strategy was the investment community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2019

EO Philadelphia Executive Director Katie Baer shares her story of entrepreneur-style community and support. It has been almost 10 years since I walked into a Strategy Summit dinner, my absolute first experience with EO. I was hired in early June 2009 as the part-time administrator for the EO Philadelphia chapter.

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