A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

It’s the heroin-hit that hooks the entrepreneur. (The And now, with Silver Lake’s investment and support, we can accelerate our growth investing even more into our strategic roadmap, and placing some new bets on ideas we’ve had but haven’t been able to find the space to explore. The next sale isn’t quite as sweet.).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

A technology executive and entrepreneur, board member and investor, she has 25 years of experience founding and helping to scale companies, including Google, Amazon and Yodlee. I continued to listen to non-e-commerce pitches as well, simply to give myself a point of reference for evaluating online shopping opportunities.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

RSVP: [link] 6:30PM Ultra Light Legal Series: January 2010 The Ultra Light Roundtable features a set of short talks on related topics of interest to entrepreneurs and business owners. RSVP: [link] 6:00PM Fashion 2.0: Startups Showcase Fashion 2.0 what is changing/what isn't -- what are we willing to bet on, and where are the wildcards.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

NYC Seed announces a summer incubator for 2010 that includes 20k investments. Well, remember the dust up a while back with the backlash against “pay to play” pitch events where startups had to pay to meet angels? I’ll be running Open Angel Forum NYC with Brian Alvey on April 8th, 2010. Yeah, I’d say problem solved, no?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Drugstoc was founded in 2015 by Opara and Yehia, but its history dates back to 2010 when the duo founded Integra Health, a hospital management company based on Yehia’s master’s degree project. The two entrepreneurs first met as students at the Maastricht University in Holland.

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JUNE 13, 2012

I first met Wiley Cerilli on April 23, 2010. He oozed a quiet confidence--like a baseball pitcher who had all his stuff working and knew exactly in his head the pitch he was going to finish you off with. You don't just get the entrepreneur--you get the team he puts in a position to succeed. The answer: it wasn't.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

In 2010 and 2011, Févry said the dean of the University’s business school let the budding business owner cut back on his hours so he could start iTrade International, an import-export business selling earthquake detection equipment in Haiti. Early Stage is the premier “how-to” event for startup entrepreneurs and investors.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

As smart speaker platforms have matured, more entrepreneurs are leveraging the technology to benefit healthcare. Analyzing Voice as a Way to Diagnose and Track Disease Progression A growing body of evidence suggests that different aspects of voice like speech rate, pitch, and word repetition can serve as biomarkers.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Kudos to Joyent for just being generally aware of what was going on in the startup scene—they came through on the self-serve sponsorship page without even being pitched. Once we got started with the pitches, one thing was immediately obvious—and pleasantly surprising. Three of the six companies were led by female entrepreneurs.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

By: Daren Cotter, Tech Entrepreneur & Investor, Member of Gopher Angels I’ve been asked this question many times over the past 8 years. Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. As my portfolio has grown, so has my answer to this question.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Every entrepreneur wants to hear “yes” during the fund-raising process but I would argue that being too risk averse and not pushing hard enough and be willing to hear a “no” is what holds back many people from “yes.” Possibly offend and entrepreneur leading to reputation risk amongst other entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. They pitch me features, not value. It doesn’t strike me as a “social network&# in the way we’ve come to define them. I play with features. I’m a tech junkie as much as the next guy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I like to invest where I have a personally strong connection with the entrepreneur and/or a strong intuition on the market from prior experience. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Martino founded Bullpen in 2010 with a focus on post-seed, pre-Series A startups, and he led the fund’s investments in companies like FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. How should startups adjust their pitch when fundraising during this crisis? VCs are going to be asking founders about their “post-corona strategy.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

1) Don’t hoard your idea, share it freely The 2010 drama, the Social Network , depicted every entrepreneur’s worst fears. The universe must have been tired of hearing my pitch. PS: Rather than just telling people your idea, build a pitch deck (more on that under point 5 below). (2) I found that the opposite is true.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

It’s meant to be a bit provocative but the reality is that I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the the time and I usually leave the “e&# off of the end. I normally offer this advice in the capacity of really wanting to help entrepreneurs so please bear with me. It is 2010. The list goes on.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

During the summer of 2010, I developed a workshop, A New ACEF Valuation Workshop for Angels and Entrepreneurs. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. million to $2.1 million to $2.7

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

When Chantel Waterbury came to pitch me back in August of 2010 for chloe + isabel , she started off the conversation with a simple description--that there were four other companies in her space each doing over a hundred million dollars of revenue and that, in total, they still made up a small percentage of the overall market.

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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. As Techstars’ track record fell further and further behind YC, their investor sales pitch of “buying an index of the global startup ecosystem” fell flat.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it. I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. I hate losing. I don’t want to lose next time. They’re competitive.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it. I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. I hate losing. I don’t want to lose next time. They’re competitive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

I can't think of a single time when a white man came to pitch me and I told him his fundraising plans weren't aggressive enough. Yet, for some reason, the goals for her pitch were incremental--despite being in an extremely hot space. So why are so many diverse entrepreneurs shortchanging themselves? Something else is at play.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

They’re pitching to you. I know because many entrepreneurs I spend time with I can tell are in their own brains when we’re meeting rather than trying to understand what my position is. You’re in sales mode. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Sales & Marketing Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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APRIL 11, 2016

Over the weekend, Rent the Runway held an event for its Project Entrepreneur initiative, which brought together over 100 female entrepreneurs looking to get education and advice on how to take their businesses to the next step. Yes, straight white males are getting most of the funding, but they're also most of the pitches.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2023

And that quickly coalesced into a new vision around being an entrepreneur in the bio space. I began putting together a pitch deck and came to two important realizations. They have a single SPV with a low per unit cost and the whole thing is structured as 3-month pitch competition. And from there it was off to the races.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Pitch perfect, you might think. There is every likelihood that Zennström’s Atomico would have joined Klarna’s cap table in 2010 if it weren’t for a single line of text published on the VC firm’s website, which read something like, “don’t contact us, we’ll contact you.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side. I believe this is wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. then bought GeoCities for $3.6 Enter Facebook.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Pitch perfect, you might think. There is every likelihood that Zennström’s Atomico would have joined Klarna’s cap table in 2010 if it weren’t for a single line of text published on the VC firm’s website, which read something like, “don’t contact us, we’ll contact you.”

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StartupNation

APRIL 20, 2021

For context, I had just founded Detroit Venture Partners a year earlier with the goal of helping passionate entrepreneurs launch and scale their businesses while making a positive impact on the city of Detroit. He was open-minded, coachable, smart, and driven, making him an ideal entrepreneur to back.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

ME/ “When we started out in 2010, we were the definition of bootstrapping entrepreneurs. A lot of people think that all you need is an idea and capital to make it as an entrepreneur, but it’s so much more than that. Above all, we only pitch people on the companies we would personally interview for.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

So as an entrepreneur it’s hard to navigate those waters over time. I thought I’d do a quick post on why VC’s don’t like to cross funds so entrepreneurs can better understand the situation and how to talk with their investors about it. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 22, 2023

So over time, I've been a serial entrepreneur for startups for successful exits. The 65 companies that Desert Angels invested in between 2010 and 2020 represented a total economic impact of more than $647 million. Along the way, he and I also built two other startups concurrent with the big one.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The session starts with networking and pitch practice submissions and then moves onto an interview with Holt and Bennett at noon, followed by the TCL Pitch Practice at 12:30 pm PT. Ryan, who most recently was at Ford, is a serial entrepreneur. In 2010, he sold his retail eCommerce business, Giftback. Supply chain.

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