Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

There is safety in numbers of saying, “we all decided to do this together” and I believe it’s because failing alone seams unbearable. In today’s era the bar of honor is so much higher because many companies “fail” through acquihires or become walking zombies or simply shut down. Yet failure smells.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

When GGV Capital reached out and said that it had built an index of API-first companies, I was curious. Why more SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based pricing. There’s not a great number of public API-first companies, which means that useful data on the cohort is somewhat scarce. What’s GGV built? The present.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 28, 2016

They're more interested to know if that company that raised all that money is falling apart at the seams. Telling your story isn't just about conveying information about your company--it's about giving someone a framework that makes them feel like they know how to be successful as well. Otherwise, who cares? Why should we care?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 9, 2014

2) You are growing, and if you don''t raise, you won''t be able to build the infrastructure required not to come apart at the seams. 7) You''re making a ton of money at the company level, but haven''t really ever made any money yourself personally. Might be time to let someone you want to work with buy your equity.

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Gust

OCTOBER 7, 2011

One was that our “gluing” algorithms, which combined 3D images taken from different angles, also generated Frankenstein-like seams. So powerful, in fact, that a public company looking to add a “dot com” story to its investor relations pitch decided we were just what they needed. Well, a couple of small problems emerged.

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Dream It

JUNE 2, 2021

Now you see, your fairytale “pitch deck” is falling apart at the seams. You could start with something like this, “I want to tell you about our company. Make sure you mention how many companies you’ve talked to about the problem, and how painful and urgent the problem is. What’s the big vision for your company?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

If you don’t, you and your company will crash and burn. My energy levels are rising as the company grows and my role evolves. My company already has procedures, planning, forecasting, processes and systems in place to be ten times the size we are today. And you realise you can’t do it by yourself anymore.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 5, 2015

The company has been around for a few years, but this is a new product for them.). I''m thinking $25mm seed for 10% of the company. Austin infrastructure is going to bust open at the seams at SXSW. Downloaded Meerkat yet? It''s the new new thing. The app is five days old and getting in with all the right names in the Valley.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 15, 2021

based on 20 years of strategic experience of digital teams in some 100 companies on 4 continents and the thousands of recruitments I have had in my own digital companies?—?are Some would say that it is a general trend, where it is a fact even when you climb to the top in traditional companies today. are discussed below.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Index and Meritech led the company’s previous round, which was only in January of this year. ” The pitch for Personio up to now has been that it’s part of the group of enterprise startups that have tapped a lucrative seam of customers, SMEs, by simply building products for them. That Series D round was at a $1.7

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Had it been built differently, it could have been a better company and honestly I’d like to believe maybe even a more valuable one in the long term. There’s no reason why a culture needs to fall apart at the seams in a hypergrowth startup. Not only that, we have other portfolio companies to worry about.

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