Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

In this article, Manny shares his strategy for a smooth business exit plan. While there’s lots of advice out there on how investors can exit successfully, there’s less for entrepreneurs in the trenches. Manny Padda is an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award.

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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. But this strategy great depends on point 3. Availability of Capital. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

So when Goldman Sachs announced this week it was buying NextCapital – a fintech company that provides automated advice to corporate retirement plan participants – my ears perked up. With this new strategy, Klarna is essentially saying that it’s open for business. NextCapital was a fintech company before fintech became cool.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

We capped our fund size so that we would stay true to our investment strategy in terms of size, scope and number of partners as we stood in 2014 when we raised the fund. I’ve met many smart and capable people like this but it was also clear that many of them didn’t have an intimate knowledge of what is truly unique to venture.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. Startup Advice' In the Early Days. Photo credit from 500px.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

How they built trust, maintain honesty, and talk strategy are also on the table as part of the discussion. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011. Make a friend!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As evidence of that, the firm led Credit Karma’s Series A in 2009; led Remitly’s Series A in 2014 and participated in Nubank’s Series A in 2014. The firm has come a long way from when it closed its first fund — $30 million of internal capital — in 2008. Many VCs can offer capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

How they built trust, maintain honesty and talk strategy are also on the table as part of the discussion. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011. Make a friend!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . We raised $280 million.

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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. Growth marketing strategies. 4 proven approaches to CX strategy that make customers feel loved.

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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 wanted advice. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business.

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