Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Cautionary note: No competent VC is actually fooled when you show up after raising $6M in seed financing and say you’re now raising an A! Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 7, 2014. This is something I think entrepreneurs don’t totally understand and it’s worthwhile they do. Nobody cares. Here’s how all the drama started for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. The reason is that no VC wants to see the venture debt provider get burned if you become bankrupt.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. billion by 2014. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

And still, only about 3% of venture capital goes to female founders—that number is even lower for BIPOC female entrepreneurs with an average funding rate of less than 1%. Lori’s advice to women entrepreneurs seeking funding? Don’t let venture capitalists deter you from opportunity. global Muslims. The Mom Project (Chicago).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Jenny is an entrepreneur, operator, board member, advisor, and investor in tech for over 25 years. The bad news is that I over-capitalized my companies, but the good news is that the process taught me how VCs think and the best way to pitch them. VCs have short attention spans! Lastly, remember, you only need one VC to say yes!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. And here’s an important point that I think modern entrepreneurs often forget: Investors are “co-owners” of your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I love the enthusiasm, the boundless energy and the sense of possibility that comes from having an idea that hasn’t yet been beat up in the marketplace of competing ideas, customer contracts, VC skepticism, jaded journalists or fickle consumers who are on the The New, New Thing. It’s the nature of most entrepreneurs, honestly.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way. Founders needn’t have revenue to draw VC investment, but they do need some way to show that they’ve validated the model. These are angels and VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. There are a lot of things I think entrepreneurs should care about when raising from a VC: How big or small their fund is? I’m still not sure.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. They wanted advice. That’s the right answer for VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

.” I applaud all efforts by people to take on this issue and especially be Adeo who – let’s be honest – was really the first champion of trying to make the VC world more transparent by launching TheFunded, which didn’t exactly endear him to VCs initially. They’ll get priced soon enough by a VC.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

Prospective contributors regularly ask us about which topics Extra Crunch subscribers would like to hear more about, and the answer is always the same: Actionable advice that is backed up by data and/or experience. The company, which has raised over $455 million since it launched in 2014, was most recently valued at just over $4.5

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. These people who never had the opportunity to start a store came onto our platform and became entrepreneurs for the first time, because we do not need them to invest any money in working capital or setting up an offline shop. 42:45 – Big problems worth solving in India.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

Ramon Ray, entrepreneur and founder of SmartHustle.com, had a discussion with Prashant Fuloria, CEO of Fundbox all about this and more. Go to your VC grant, loan from a bank, whatever. So, we have customers who, right when we launched the product back in 2014, 2015, we have customers right from then, and we’ve grown with them.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. Revenue has tripled year over year since the company’s 2014 founding. They were founded in 2020 and have solid VC backing, recently raising $2 million, raising their total funding to $4.4 Now many Detroit startups are on the fast track to growth. Love crypto?

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