Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. But there is no “sell early&# option for VCs where a $20 million exit could change our lives. Writing this bl0g – This blog is a huge creative outlet for me. I’m enjoying the chaotic creativity that comes with blogging.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Another exit from the OurCrowd portfolio. Sprout is investing $1M in Protag, whose smart ear tag for cows allows farmers to continuously monitor the animal’s health, location, grazing and breeding habits. The post Newsletter: Future of FinTech + Indoor wireless done right appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Register Now.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I have too many portfolio companies without exits and I want to see some returns before I put too much more money into this category.&#. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. And these are people with deep pockets. If you’re the sucker at the table – others will smell it. I tell my wife to assume that money is lost.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

15 companies North of $1 billion exit. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Tags: Startup Advice. And they are normal, down-to-earth people as well. Time is the enemy of all deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

15 companies North of $1 billion exit. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. And they are normal, down-to-earth people as well. Losing sucks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

Pricing high also takes exit options off the table. I have a link on my blog to the angel deals I’ve done, which is here. Tags: Start-up Advice. So don’t raise money at a cheap price, but don’t get too far ahead of yourself either. We don’t want to compete with our LPs. they take time!!

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. If your first resort when you have trouble raising money is to complain about New York on a tech blog, you’re really doing yourself a disservice in the relationship building area.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2010

My wife reads a blog every day that she loves (and highly recommends to everybody) called The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. She loves it and always has such great stories to tell me about the blog in the evenings when we talk about life. Tags: Startup Advice. How many would lead a life of “poor me?&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2010

When I started blogging I had an idea. Left to their own devices most employees will muck up their exit. No matter how hard they push in the exit interview don’t offer up the dirt. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I leave nothing to chance. Job hoppers NEVER make good employees.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 24, 2010

3) Recognize the dynamic, but don’t overplay it Sometimes, you’re in a meeting with the founders of [insert billion dollar exit here] and they don’t need your money. There’s now a link on my blog where it says Meet in the navbar that links to my Tungle.me Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I published this on my own startups blog. So it's a recursive function to say, oh, well, if the New York Times links to you, that's much more valuable than if Dharmesh's blog links to you because New York Times has more page rank. Or even just read these blog posts and watch these videos. I'm making the number up.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. Entrepreneurs want less cash because they want to control dilution and preserve exit options at lower prices.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. And we all worked on the exit together. That VC who saw me stick through hard times at my first company and get an exit at both companies is the firm where I’m now a partner. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

His logic was, “when I invested the management team knew that I wanted a multi-hundred million dollar exit so they shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve had the conversation of what will happened upon an exit with founders so many times I feel like a broken record. My friend blocked the deal. I literally said to my friend, “You’re a dick.

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