Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

With a massive increase in companies created and a huge number of sources one trend that we witnessed from 2012–2015 was the rise of the undisciplined round. The fact that I still see it referred to in pitch decks is farcical. Now seed funding is conventional wisdom. I Leaderless Rounds. Late-Stage VCs Pay Up. Choose wisely.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

I wonder sometimes if founders even know about the hours their lawyers or advisers put in on evenings, weekends, vacations. I had dinner with my friend Brooke Hammerling , founder of Brew PR recently. VENTURE CAPITAL. And finally that brings me to obvious topic of venture capital. EXECUTIVE COACHES.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

At this point, it’s common knowledge that the cost of capital has declined in recent years. This is mostly discussed by referring to the increased valuations companies were receiving at varying stages, as shown below in Chart B. Source: PitchBook data from 2012-2022. Image Credits: Neotribe Ventures. Definitely not.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. Lifeline Ventures has also backed unicorns such as open source enterprise infrastructure company Aiven , which hit a valuation of $3 billion last year.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 7, 2016

But it’s not a compelling if it’s a single data point, because the market reached this level in Q2 2013 and Q1 2012. This heavy dilution is colloquially referred to as being washed out. Recapitalization : restructure the capitalization table for both preferred and common as part of a financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Today is amongst the proudest days I’ve had at Upfront Ventures — getting the chance to announce that Kevin Zhang has been promoted to Partner. years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital. Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate. Watching him develop over the past 4.5

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. This team is talented. They wanted advice.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

In 2012, he co-founded a company called YourMechanic (and won TechCrunch’s Disrupt that year) that provides on-demand automotive mobile maintenance and repair services. Although for now it is mostly focused on insurance, it plans to use its new capital to move into other categories of car ownership. When he moved to the U.S.

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