Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. True story.)

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Both Sides of the Table

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! But then the truth sets in. I speak a lot on college campuses.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

The findings may not be troubling if these respondents were millennial startup founders, years from leaving their companies. Sooner or later, everyone in the C-suite today — including startup founders — will depart. The others, at General Electric, General Motors and Goldman Sachs, each netted no more than 13% of votes.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 15, 2022

YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with Gusto co-founder and CPO Tomer London to talk about building for new customer segments and the future of embedded finance — sharing advice for startup founders and CEOs along the way. 17:00 - Most startups find it hard to tackle the SMB market.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2022

Ash Ali, my friend, and investment partner was talking about a huge 3-day international startup summit in Dubai, where he was going to be flown in as a speaker and mentor to thousands of tech startup founders in attendance from all over the world. I didn’t think I could compare to Ash who headed up the growth of Just Eat?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. So they go out of their way to offer advice and introductions.

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