A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

We just announced a few more things. Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. We’re less than 8 years old so you can do the math on growth rates and figure out that we’re on an elite trajectory. And a special thank you to Heather Brunner, our CEO for the past four and a half years. Long-time readers of this (11-year old!!)

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When I built my first pitch deck in 2013, I had no clue what to include. The post How to build the perfect pitch deck for your business appeared first on THE BLOG. I also encourage you to read about the hero’s journey. It’s a structure used in most modern films, and you can learn a lot from it that you can adapt for your pitch deck.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 1, 2019

He bought into Sharp & Carter in 2013, and the firm has grown from seven people in Melbourne to 120 people across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, Australia. . Anthony recently shared his top tips for employee retention and growth in an EO Melbourne blog post , which has been adapted for this article. . Focus on relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Every so often I find myself caught up in a really hectic 3-4 week schedule where it seems like I float endlessly betweens meetings. My wife and I went down 3 days early and had some chill out time. I had one of the biggest mental breakthroughs about what I want to do differently at GRP Partners in 2013. Board Meetings.

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

For those following this blog and the seed market over the past decade, you may have noticed that every year, we see increases across the board — more investors, newer funds, and funds that get larger. Rather, this short blog is filled only with my own observations from being in the middle of the evolving seed market since 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And this month we announced that Maker Studios, where I am an investor and board member, crossed 3 billion views.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

In 2013 we opened 23 new stores in a single year, a pretty crazy feat by any measure. The post 3 Tips for Succeeding at Marriage to Your Business Partner appeared first on THE BLOG. You must support each other through growth periods and stick together when making big decisions.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2018

An EO member since 2013, Dave is also a former national champion and Olympic Trials finalist swimmer who continues to train and compete at a world-ranked level to sustain his mental and physical endurance. The post A Critical, Yet Often Overlooked, Investment in Company Culture appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2017

It was back in 2013 when Bill Gates said, “The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.” The post Top 3 Benefits of Offering Your Customers Free Wi-Fi appeared first on THE BLOG. By Kerry Blake, business writer . Today, the Internet and access to it is omnipresent.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Surely not I, when my family moved here in 2013. on February 3. Meanwhile, Silicon Hills News (operated by the very talented Laura Lorek) reported that Austin-based insurtech Decent is “shutting down all of its operations to just a core team,” which was confirmed in a blog post published by Nick Soman, the company’s founder and CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. I know that some people will point out that widely read presentation on YouTube on Sept 2013 criticizes YouTube for its revenue split. We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

That escalation from $25K back in 2013 took a little over four years. While the big funds hire people to do this and the new angel/seed funds are just starting out and don’t even think about it when starting — it’s somewhere between years 3-5 where I’ve noticed this starts to sink in.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Today, some of those shares were sold in a secondary transaction Reach Capital, which now accounts for $3 million of the financing. The company began in 2013 when then-med students Saud Siddiqui and Andrew Berg were in desperate need of a better study solution for microbiology. The story.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. So what is an EIR and why Sam?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post. ” Don’t.

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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. 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. In the Early Days.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In 2013 it is expected to be around $35 billion. Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 2013 = $25 billion of which Apples stage is more than $8 billion at > 90% gross margin. My partner Yves will have 3 in our last fund alone and possibly 4. 33% of the world is on the Internet on average of 3.1

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 29, 2020

By: Kathie Priebe and Cristina Almeida, Managing Directors of Golden Seeds Reposted with permission from Golden Seeds blog. Editor’s note: This is an update to the original blog post, “How did she do it? In October 2013, we incorporated and established Onboard Dynamics. In September 2014, we received a $3.6M

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

Here’s the gist from his blog: “Those of you who often over-commit or feel too scattered may appreciate a new philosophy I’m trying: If I’m not saying “HELL YEAH!” From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. ” about something, then I say no.

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

Fast forward to 2013 — we became parents, I started investing, and life as we knew it changed. There are plenty of other blogs you can find that list all the email tools, to-do apps, and other things folks weave into their daily lives. For me, it was the combination of an acceleration in work plus all of a sudden having 3 kids.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 5, 2018

My mother used to call failure a stepping-stone to success, as opposed to the opposite of success,” she recalled in a 2013 Inc. The post How 5 Expert Entrepreneurs View Success and Failure appeared first on THE BLOG. Later, he ran a 52-mile ultra-marathon. Throughout success and failure, however, she turned to her mother’s advice. “My

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 5, 2018

We continued to tap into our US$3 million bank line of credit and we were nearing tapping it out. In 2013, we announced the sale of that division to an international player at a handsome multiple of earnings. The post What Embezzlement, a Hurricane and the Financial Crash Taught Me About Business appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. It’s no different for A, B, C rounds where you might be announcing $3 million, $10 million or $25 million. Should I Bundle it With More Juicy News?

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

What you learn at an established company in 10-15 years, you learn at a startup compressed in 3-4 years, especially at a scaling startup. This was 2013, 2014. Instead, I messaged Jeff Jordan and said, ‘You know, I read your blog post about retail, and the transition of retail to online.’

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

But this particular episode was about how he took all of his blog about passing the architecture licensing exam and he put his … He had documented his process, how he studied and passed it. And he realized people were coming to his website and they were reading his blog posts. She got some people reading her blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I just returned from 3 days in Cincinnati including attending the annual meeting of one of Upfront’s LPs – Cintrifuse. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors.

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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. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. I always wanted to work with Brad for this reason so I started blogging because I figured if transparency worked for Brad I would try the same approach. .” I do 2-3 deals per year and our firm does maybe 10-15 maximum. But let me be even more clear.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Image Credits: Tumblr “When adding something new to Tumblr in the past, we’d simply add a new icon to our navigation with little further explanation,” Tumblr wrote in a blog post. The company was founded in 2007 and acquired by TechCrunch parent company Yahoo for $1 billion in 2013.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

One website qualifies “banker’s hours” as 10am-3 pm, which actually were the open hours at most banks decades ago. In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Here are a list of the new forces pushing the U.S.

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