2000 advice pitching 
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OCTOBER 15, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting.
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FEBRUARY 25, 2010
We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. Our final closure was the first week of March 2000. This is part of my ongoing series with Startup Advice (although this also applies tightly with Raising Venture Capital ). Our final closure was the first week of March 2000.
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. It’s that simple. Tweet This Post Facebook.
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OCTOBER 3, 2011
Even more interesting is that at GRP Partners (the VC firm where I’m a partner) our two most successful returns from our previous fund [which is ranked as the top performing fund in the country for its 2000 vintage according to Prequin] were both run by women! The latest entrepreneur who has been pitching me, Shahed Khan , is only 16!
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JANUARY 31, 2010
We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million. We had a $40 million round lined up to close in the Autumn of 2000. Our first big institutional round was $16.5
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JUNE 5, 2011
It’s the one bit of advice I find myself giving most frequently these days, “raise money at the top end of normal.&#. It was early 2000. We had companies pitching us that had almost no revenue at all and they were raising $10-15 million in capital at a $40-50 million pre-money valuation. Here’s what I mean.
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APRIL 20, 2011
Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. These partners travel to a city and take ten minute pitches from the entrepreneurs. What are the most common mistakes in first pitch? Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp. and Half.com.
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