Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

That would mean 6 firms drive $24.5 Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. So if you take 6 very strong performing firms of $250 million and assume they do 5x each that is $1.25 In 2013 it is expected to be around $35 billion. billion in returns.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

I miss blogging because it serves as a great repository for me of my current thinking, as a way of organizing my thoughts and clarifying what I think and as a conversation started with so many of you (as Hunter Walk elegantly said, “Blog not to show how smart you are, but in the hope of soliciting feedback from smart people.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Every now and again I like to drive from LA to San Francisco (6 hours) in stead of flying. I had one of the biggest mental breakthroughs about what I want to do differently at GRP Partners in 2013. The number of times I’ve had people come to me and say they want to blog more. I also have huge creative spurts when I run.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2023

most read Alphabet makes deep cuts: Alphabet, the parent holding company of Google, announced on Friday that it’s cutting around 6% of its global workforce, or roughly 12,000 roles, Paul reports. At Early Stage, experts will share advice on protecting intellectual property, structuring cap tables, developing target customer personas and more.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

When there was finally a pause, my 6-year-old asked—no, requested—that we talk about something other than work. This article was originally posted on the Octane blog on 26 April, 2013. ” appeared first on THE BLOG. I remember one dinner where Maureen and I were excited about a new business idea. Bright kid!

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Cloud computing, which encompasses the infrastructure products used by developers to build services, has remained flat at 4% over the past five years despite some recent declines in 2013 and 2014. Since 2010, education startups have been on a tear in the seed market growing from 6% to now 10% in 2015.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 5, 2018

We had a thief— embezzlement to the tune of US$6 million. of the US$6 million that was stolen was taken during the final six months. In 2013, we announced the sale of that division to an international player at a handsome multiple of earnings. He needed to talk to her about some postings that didn’t add up. Okay, sort of.

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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. Almost all of the major ones have been formed in the past 6-7 years. But in 2013 it can also simply be, “Company X raises $2.2 ” Why?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2016

Picture this: It’s early 2013. One morning, I get a call at 6 a.m. The post How I Lost 40% of My Company in Four Hours appeared first on THE BLOG. By Adam Morris, and EO Portland member and President of West Coast Careers, Oregon. There are five of us on staff: My partner, me, two recruiters and a young office manager.

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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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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

I have a blog post on that, fundraising advice for founders raising for the first time. It was $6, and now its over $1000 per Bitcoin. There was a sense back in 2012 and 2013 that Bitcoin would also replace, like, Visa and MasterCard, sort of like the payment slayer. So it started off as this digital money idea.

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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. It’s entirely possible the trend lifts these companies in due time, as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit). Even tech blogs know this. But How Do Service Businesses Grow?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

61% of the VCs survey said that prices in Q4 last year had started to drop and 91% said they expected them to continue to drop in the first 6 months of this year (with 30% expecting serious drops). When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. The Motive for Speaking Up. This corrected only to go back up to 13.4x

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 5, 2018

At 20 years old, Hal Elrod was hit by a drunk driver, considered clinically dead for 6 minutes and then told he would never walk again. My mother used to call failure a stepping-stone to success, as opposed to the opposite of success,” she recalled in a 2013 Inc. Later, he ran a 52-mile ultra-marathon.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” In 2013, we are in the midst of a critical platform transition from the browser-based Internet to mobile applications platforms like iOS and Android. Conversion Rate” is a misleading term.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

We will be working over the next 6-12 months on starting to implement our strategy to build some traction in the US with OEM partners over there.” PitchBook has ranked OurCrowd as Israel’s most active investor each year since we were founded in 2013, with investments in more than 330 portfolio companies. Top Tech News.

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