Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

It costs less money to start companies so the world should have way more startups.&# I’ve heard the “world is different&# argument in every bubble I’ve ever seen. That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

. “The game lives in the minds of the people, a shared social experience. As an analogue, they referred to the social gaming explosion a decade ago. Because we had social media platforms and mobile phones then, we were socializing over those — so we naturally looked for ways to play over them,” they said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

What a news roundup we have for you today: China’s changing venture landscape, the power of passwords, no-code startups, and why women are still raising paltry sums compared to men. If that comes to bear, the ByteDance news could prove more harbinger than one-off, perhaps reducing the total capital available to startups in the country.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

We’ve already gotten feedback on this overview of subscription pricing models , and a look back at 2020 funding rounds and exits among Israel’s security startups was aimed at our new members who live and work there, along with international investors who are seeking new opportunities. So, ‘gambit’ seems to fit!”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. Facebook Apps, iPhone Apps, Social Games and now The Real-time Web (finally a new, sexier buzzword to replace Web 2.0. Why do VC’s care about these years? How much will you pay?

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The headlines might be littered with mega deals, IPOs and SPACs, but in all likelihood, you will exit your startup via a relatively smaller merger or acquisition, Ben Boissevain writes in a guest column. Duolingo boosts IPO price target in boon to edtech startups. Duolingo boosts IPO price target in boon to edtech startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Istanbul has become a city to watch when it comes to casual gaming startups, boosted by the likes of Peak ( acquired by Zynga for $1.8 Now, a new startup is announcing a major round of funding to make its own mark on the space. For Spyke, the outsized round was raised to match the startup’s ambitions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

You’ve found a VC partner or principal who has invited you to the Monday partners’ meeting. This is true whether your at a sales meeting or at a VC firm. This happens often is sales meetings or VC meetings. As both an entrepreneur (in VC and sales meetings) and as a VC I’ve seen this happen many times.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. Within a small startup with 3 engineers, everyone will work on all aspects of the site. Social currency. WoW and social gaming addiction.

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