Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. For investors life is no different.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

What are the three most important lessons investors could pass along to first-time entrepreneurs raising money? We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. Often times when companies raise “bridge” financing (this is money from internal investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Pulling them apart and shedding light on them is an extremely delicate operation for a white male investor, and probably not a good idea, but I'm going to go ahead with it anyway. That does not mean, however, that anyone else outside that category is unable to raise. Seriously, not a single investor turned her down.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. Separately, in the morning I called a seed-stage investor in NY and talked to him about investing in one of my companies. We call these investors “LPs” for limited partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

One company that I previously wrote about trying to change this industry is, Solve Media , (I am not an investor) has created an interesting ad unit designed to drive up brand “engagement&# and recall. We are investing heavily in these changes. Oh, sacred cow. In the steam. Integrated with where our eyes & attention are.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2011

Advisors, investors and board members come in all shapes and sizes. VC Blogger Fanboy This geek reads all the blogs religiously and is a lean startup ninja. I can sometimes fit into this category myself and VC partners and angels seem to all have at least one deal like this. Nice work, aplusk. The Reluctant Partner.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

He had raised nearly $500,000 from investors. I mean you never know if your investors are REALLY going to keep backing you. Apple announced that they’re shutting down your category. Investor emails. But I have to be careful. Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.”. Many are well known. But not sure, sure. Center seat.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

With which other investors? I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. Recap: Our goal is to find investors who pay the highest price and to help make sure that investors can’t tell whether they’re getting a good deal or a bad deal. What stage?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

With which other investors? I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. Recap: Our goal is to find investors who pay the highest price and to help make sure that investors can’t tell whether they’re getting a good deal or a bad deal. What stage?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

There seem to be a lot of market entrants in every category where it becomes hard to differentiate them all from each other. It’s why as an investor I look for talented teams with long-term vision, a unique point-of-view, differentiated IP and a desire to build something enduring. Many “me, too&# companies will perish.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). Markets like these are very kind to angel investors because you get taken out early and see a nice pop on your investment. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. avoid being diluted).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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venture capital pitching communities entrepreneurs 288

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Forward it to a friend, share it on Twitter, and follow my personal blog for more content. She raised $101 million in 10 weeks for her inaugural fund, a process she thinks took too long but, clearly, resonated with a number of investors. Visual generation is not an existing software category. The do-it-all’s.

startup 130

startup real estate frameworks disruption 130

Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. I have a link on my blog to the angel deals I’ve done, which is here.

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venture capital capital ventures angel investing 282

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. I spent a bunch of time thinking about this position — especially since Beezer is an investor in Upfront Ventures. We lived that first hand.

entrepreneurs 237

entrepreneurs VC mentorship strategy 237

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

He had raised nearly $500,000 from investors. I mean you never know if your investors are REALLY going to keep backing you. Apple announced that they’re shutting down your category. Investor emails. Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.” Many are well known. But not sure, sure. Far fetched stuff.

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entrepreneurs VC founder venture capital 420

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

A huge mistake I see is that VC tells an entrepreneur no based on a set of reason that this VC felt weren’t right with the business (market size, traction to date, too many competitors, no big exits in the category or whatever easy excuses VCs have developed to politely say no) and the entrepreneur lets this get inside his or her head.

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advice VC entrepreneurs SaaS 236

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

But since there are millions of other companies that do not fall into this category, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provides certain limited exceptions to allow individuals to invest in non-public companies. Invested Interests'

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Other investors in today’s funding round include Singular, King, the founders of FuboTV and Daniel Ek’s family office. Daniel and Oliver don’t just bring a vision but more importantly, a killer execution that is helping them define and build an entirely new category within gaming,” Northzone’s Pär-Jörgen Pärson said in a statement.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 10, 2021

This is a repost from the Launch413 blog. Simply put, the VIRAL Scorecard identifies where a company is situated in specific categories key to its future success, including the strength of its team, its market penetration, and scaling. Effective Tools Used By Launch413: A Case Study.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

The pandemic has spurred interest in saving and investment apps around the world , especially ones geared toward newer investors. The seed funding, which was made in two closes, included participation from Saison Capital, Venturra Discovery, 1982 Ventures, 500 Startups, Nextrans, and angel investors like executives at Google and Netflix.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

These new data sources are creating high-impact tools for investors. Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. A new category of investors has emerged offering a hybrid between VC and revenue-based investment (RBI), which we call “flexible VC.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

In a blog post , Microsoft said that it will increase its investments in the development and deployment of specialized supercomputing systems to accelerate OpenAI’s AI research and deploy OpenAI’s AI systems across its consumer and enterprise products and “introduce new categories of digital experiences built on OpenAI’s technology.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Flippa , an online marketplace to buy and sell online businesses and digital assets, announced its first venture-backed round, an $11 million Series A, as it sees over 600,000 monthly searches from investors looking to connect with business owners. We see the future of these aggregators becoming ‘X company for apps’ or ‘X for blogs.’ ”.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

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. What is one thing every founder should ask themselves before walking into a meeting with a potential investor? Favorite business book, blog, podcast?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

The round, led by returning investors Accel and Silversmith, comes after the startup raised $72 million in an August, 2019 Series A. billion it said in a blog post that TechCrunch viewed before publication. The new funding values Webflow at more than $2.1

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. Competitive advantage is an area in which many investors are justifiably skeptical.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. Do these folks want to be the 100th investor chasing SaaS or do they want to define/invent new categories where they can be the thought leaders? That is, if you are someone who wishes to earn a minimum viable living being creative, what is the likelihood you’ll be able to do so?

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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 ). I’ve met several people from Cooley Godward who have stellar reputations in this category. Much of this is unfounded – some is not.

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startup advice entrepreneurs VC 318

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Fred Wilson wrote an eloquent piece on his blog about “ recycling capital ,&# which every regional community should read. Are you going to do all of this? You have too much on your plate.

communities 317

communities VC innovation entrepreneurs 317

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Chennai and San Francisco-headquartered Chargebee said on Tuesday it has raised $125 million in its Series G financing round led by Sapphire Ventures and existing investors Tiger Global and Insight Venture Partners. Some other existing investors also participated in the new round, said Chargebee, which has raised $230 million to date.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. We list here all the active flexible VCs we have identified, broken into these categories: Revenue-based. These investors are paid back primarily based on a percentage of revenues. Jamie Finney.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

These investors are all placing a bet that the biggest returns could be in manufacturing. ” There are two categories of space manufacturing in the industry to come, according to Bruey and Asparouhov and those are additive manufacturing for making products to be used in space, and manufacturing in space for terrestrial applications. .

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incubation founder startup transportation 95

Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

These customers leverage SecondMeasure to analyze and cross-analyze how consumers are spending their cash, but going deeper, the platform enables customers to analyze rate of growth, cohort retention, benchmark against category competitors or regional performance, and much more. That is not the case today.

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