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 So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle.

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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. From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014. Wakanow underwent financial struggles and was in a midlife crisis before new leadership came to turn the tides. But the deal, coupled with an increase in VC investments across Africa in subsequent years, wasn’t enough for the hedge fund to revisit the region.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. 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. Now in 2022, we’ve taken both of these efforts to the next level.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. They were founded in 2020 and have solid VC backing, recently raising $2 million, raising their total funding to $4.4 Formerly PrivacyCheck, Hush is a VC-backed digital privacy startup founded by Detroit boomerang Mykolas Rambus. Apply now to Rivet.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

One of the best graphic depictions of the cone of venture funding was done by CB Insights, which tracked a cohort of the 160 American tech startups that closed on seed funding in 2009. Only 4% of the 160 startups from the class of 2009 completed a 6 th funding round by April 2014. The graphic follows those startups until April 2014.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Currently a partner at Pillar VC, Wilcox commercialized electronic paper displays by founding E Ink, which Amazon acquired in 2009. Expect to hear about Wilcox’s leadership style, his fundraising experience, the reasoning and passion behind his product — and wherever else the conversation might lead.

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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. When I started blogging as a VC I had zero idea it would lead to my current audience level of 350,000 page views / month. My entire partnership took their leadership team to dinner. By the next Monday we had lost the deal to a NorCal VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). But my prediction?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

The reason I’m thinking about the topic this morning is that several months ago Jason Spievak , the Founder & CEO of Invoca , the very first company I backed when I became a VC, started talking with me about whether he was the right guy to take the company to the next level.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

If you want to be the marketing person or you want to be perceived as a businessperson or a VC or technical person or whatever you want to be perceived, people will always define you. A lot of the VCs I talked to – I was living in NorCal, a lot of the VCs were saying, “Yeah, come on in, EIR.” Maybe you misheard me.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2023

In 2012, the economy was starting to bounce back from the financial collapse of 2008 and 2009. Not only did it require a new sales approach, it required a new style of sales leadership. You sell to founders when acquiring them (or to be acquired) and to PE/VC firms to get funded (or fund a company). I was right.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Hitler undermined the press and the courts and importantly placed his loyalists in the intelligence services and undermined military and judicial leadership. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). Dan talks about a landmark case in 2009 that involved whether it was legal to strip search a 13-year-old girl.

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