Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

And we all know that Ron Conway is considered the savviest of angel investors and yet by definition not all of his investments succeed. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. Just ask the people who poured money into once “hot&# companies like RazorGator or Friendster. I don’t believe these times will last.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

“If you believe VR and immersive computing is the future — whether for consumer or business use cases — Activision helps Microsoft build a flywheel of content and technology that gets more users on board to this future.”. Why Microsoft’s $2T+ market cap makes its $68B Activision buy a cheap bet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When we invest they are often the company counsel so we see them at board meetings. does that qualify for the discount on my last engagement with you guys ] I like the WYSIWYG approach to working with lawyers – I don’t want the partners pitching the work and it gets completed behind the scenese by somebody I’ve never met.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Let’s kick this off by reminding you there’s only 5 days left to save $1,000 on Disrupt passes ! — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 No one likes a cheater : Definitely not Russian game developer Battlestate Games, which banned and doxed 6,700 cheaters from its Escape from Tarkov game. Lorenzo has more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I guess if you do more than one, I guess by definition, that’s serial. I came from a board meeting to here. I was saying to this CEO at the board meeting, I said, “I don’t know, I just have this blind belief that you guys are going to create an enormous success. ” I said, “Why? 100 billion idea.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) Take a densely packed forest, add a steep pitch, and throw in a couple feet of fresh snow, and I’m in heaven.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 13, 2011

It’s honest advice so please judge once you’re read the post. Here’s my advice: A got an email from a young, super bright entrepreneur today. Let’s say it’s for biz dev purposes, or you’re pitching investors, recruiting, or it’s a sales meeting – whatever. I’ll keep it short.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. Raising money is hard.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

I think they definitely qualify as a VC and not a seed fund. Yet talk to virtually any FRC company and they’ll tell you that these guys are some of the most active board members and offer some of the best advice in the industry. I could definitely see that happening. They do many early-stage deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. Or “I’m a new entrepreneur, why would I offer advice on how to run a startup?&#.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The problem of less research into women’s health issues does also mean that femtech startups can have a lot of ground to cover to live up to enticing pitches of ‘demystifying’ the female body, as Evvy couches it. This is because the service is not a regulated medical device.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. You’re not lecturing to a college class, you’re not at a cocktail party and you’re not chatting with a small group in a board meeting. It definitely is an IQ test thing for me. You’re on stage! People say this all the time.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

I know, because those people all used to pitch me as an institutional LP back in the day. What I'm not good at--or, rather, simply haven't done yet, is sit on a board for seven years helping a company go from $20mm in revenue to $100 million in revenue. Some big VCs are awesome at seed, and to a lot of work to help their companies.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. You will see in societies, people will just put a board outside of their house and start selling products. Us starting this business exactly at the time when Jio was coming big was definitely very lucky, right? Vidit Aatrey [27:50] – Over time they also came on board.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Claire Hughes Johnson : Yeah, definitely. So we definitely shouldn’t talk about dog training since that is not something that I should have on my resume. So I definitely used it with the self-driving cars team, and got feedback like, was this accurate? My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

To add more pressure, every conversation you have is a potential sales pitch, making it difficult to have honest, relaxed conversations with anyone who could be a potential client or stakeholder. but that won’t stop the almost daily influx of unsolicited advice and second-guessing you’ll receive. Oh, most definitely.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Those that are allocated shares have definitive and explicit monetary gain within a 24 hour period of receiving an allocation. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive? Make no mistake about it, an IPO “pop” is expressly a wealth transfer.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Dharmesh: I think that was good advice. Definitely maybe. I'm going to give you my pitch, Shaan. And she would later join HubSpot board. It's kind of related to Constant Contact's space and we want to get her advice. crosstalk 01:10:54] So my advice is just do it and try it. It's like that. So there've been.

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