TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Definitely not!). In a post for TC+, entrepreneur and angel investor Kuan Wei (Greg) Soh shared his top suggestions for managing distributed engineering teams, which includes mandatory standups and at least three hours each day when everyone is available to chat. Pitch Deck Teardown: Syneroid’s $500K seed deck.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Plus, they were gracious enough to share some of the advice they’re giving to their portfolio companies. However, many entrepreneurs have opted to remain heads down and build more efficiently instead of testing this new valuation environment. What advice are you giving to your portfolio companies?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Dear Sophie: Any advice for living my dreams in Silicon Valley? Any advice? Eager Entrepreneur. — Eager Entrepreneur. Dear Sophie: Any advice for living my dreams in Silicon Valley? The salads were delicious, but the prices definitely made me appreciate our free lunch policy. That was amazing!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

They pitched on a Wednesday. She was everything I was looking for in an entrepreneur to back. In the most perfect sense of the definition. And for Soleil it was her entrepreneur friends: Dan Rosensweig, Tim Ferriss, Kevin Rose, Shervin Pishevar, Randi Zuckerberg, Gina Bianchini, Erik Lammerding and Rick Marini.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

Sadness for the loss of a bright young New Zealander who had so much going for him, for the terrible loss for Jake’s mother and his whanau and friends, and for the loss of an up and coming innovator and entrepreneur to our business community. It also made me angry.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Winning many pitch competitions and hackathons does not automatically mean that a startup is good. What’s your advice to entrepreneurs who have a chance to meet investors like you? Sustainability is definitely an area to look at. Investing based on the startup’s heuristics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

A definitive founder’s guide would have to include chapters like, “So you’ve hired the wrong person,” or, “Five ways to tell if an investor is lying to you.” It’s impossible to plan for everything that can go wrong while building a startup. ” On Thursday, January 19 at 10 a.m.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

If you don’t already read Chris’s blog you should – it’s very well written, often takes a strong POV and speaks from an entrepreneur’s perspective but with a huge knowledge of the technology investors as well. I covered this a bit in my post about the market definition slide in fund raising. He is both.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 8, 2023

Curran Van Waarde , Founder, CallScaler Resist the Urge to Pivot Early Entrepreneurs tend to be action-oriented; this habit can fail them when success doesn’t come quickly. So, my advice to other startup leaders is simple: know as much as you can about your challenges before you face them.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

Any success as an entrepreneur? He hasn't founded or built either a successful, let alone innovative company, and he hasn't raised $ to invest in those entrepreneurs. Facing live pitching is a new thing, but that's no excuse for not having an approach to hitting and studying up to face this particular pitcher. How about as a VC?

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate. Floodgate exists to invest in prime movers - entrepreneurs who build movements that become category defining companies - before the rest of the world believes in them. Nancy Lublin, CEO of Loris.ai, is definitely a founder to watch. I love teaching. And it’s fun!

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It partners with entrepreneurs in funding their growth stories through innovative market access and public venture capital strategies. Definitely tough to raise funds from LPs, especially for a first-time fund manager with no track record (in fund management) and during this Covid period. Build trust. Be authentic and be prepared.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

That’s the classic definition of Grin Fucking. I found that most VC’s never gave me any feedback when I was pitching. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Unsurprisingly, this one way best. The title IS the post. Don’t be a grin fucker. I’m OK with that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. It’s the one bit of advice I find myself giving most frequently these days, “raise money at the top end of normal.&#. Here’s what I mean. That’s fine.

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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). 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.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 22, 2014

What I find a bit frustrating is how easily some people get onto panels and are put up in front of an impressionable crowd of new entrepreneurs as "experts". You''ll get an entrepreneur who has raised one and only one round of financing in his or her entire life--all from relatively unsophisticated individuals, giving fundraising advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Because many great entrepreneurs work with lawyers in registering their companies they have their ear to the pavement on the earliest of company formations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. And no one could see me as anything but a startup guy, so I started a second company and called myself a serial entrepreneur. I guess if you do more than one, I guess by definition, that’s serial. My mom grew up in the States.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Dear Sophie, I’m an entrepreneur in Guatemala and would like to come to the United States to expand my tech company. Her advice is clear and simple, which makes it particularly valuable in an environment where startup funding is flowing faster than ever. Will quantum computing remain the domain of the specialist VC?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

I’m often asked the question about why there aren’t more women who are entrepreneurs. And when asked about the topic, I definitely don’t shy away from the topic as you can see in this 8-minute YouTube interview that Pemo Theodore asked me to do on the subject of Women in Entrepreneurship. Every single one.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I was an entrepreneur for years. I must have pitched 40-50 VCs over the years. As I talked about on many occasions when I was an entrepreneur – and blogged publicly about - I learned a lot about my business and myself in these meetings. Best line: “we’re a definite maybe.&# Possibly more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

Yet a critical mistake I see many entrepreneurs make is that they hand over too much control to their third-parties. So while you definitely want their help in discussing price and getting you more information (they’re better at it than you), I want a seat at the table. As an entrepreneur I have one company to sell.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. Entrepreneurs that believe they know everything had better be right, because it’s gonna be hard to learn on the fly if you already know everything.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

You may feel as I did in 1999 that the more smart people around the table the more intros you’ll have, the more sage advice you’ll receive and the more impressive you’ll seem to outsiders. By definition you can’t have 3 investors each wanting to increase from 5% to 20% ownership or you’re fawked anyways.

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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 raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. 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.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 18, 2019

If you watched Shark Tank in early August last year, you’d have seen two entrepreneurs hoping the ground would open up and swallow them when pitching their camping tent startup to a group of investors. Those entrepreneurs are engaged in the important work of creating and delivering a product that meets an actual market demand.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We are gonna build a better software tool that will sell to entrepreneurs, it will sell to accountants. Waseem: Yeah, we had a bunch of investors in our seed round, like a bunch of quite prominent angels, folks that honestly I would have paid money to get advice from, so it was nice to get both money and advice.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

I told entrepreneurs that it was a bit of a Faustian bargain. But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California. I have spoken at length to one such entrepreneur who tells me that he hardly hears from his VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

But in my experience as an entrepreneur and now spending my time amongst investors I can generalize that almost all VC investments in early stage technology & Internet investments come down to just four key factors. This post was prompted by an email exchange I had with a young entrepreneur. I was interested in learning more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Well, I get nothing out of seeing how well a bunch of people can pitch their businesses on stage. Entrepreneur Dinners. One of my favorite things to do is to organize entrepreneur dinners when I travel. Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness (Tiger Moms & the true definition of success). We’ll see.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2018

Sure, you need to learn what the common theme of the no’s are and be willing to make adjustments to your pitch. Many entrepreneurs let the early rejections get to them and it’s normal because when you hear “no” you think “what’s wrong with me!?” Just remind yourself of lemons. These are the “lemons that ripen early.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

“Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months. For starters: he’s never had an opportunity to pitch at a VC firm where there was another Black person in the room.

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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. – OK, I already said above that you can ask if people are entrepreneurs, investors, etc. It definitely is an IQ test thing for me. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. how many of you “X&# ?

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