Both Sides of the Table

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. You manage what you measure.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election. Advice, coaching, intros? All viral adoption starts with one thing – great content. That’s what JibJab focused on. They did a rap battle between Bush & Gore – I tracked it down.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. Tags: Start-up Advice. I think this episode is worth watching ( video is here ) but as always I’ll try to summarize for anybody short on time.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

I was clueless about startup operations, financing and venture capital, but I didn’t need to be an economist to realize that most of the companies I worked for lacked solid fundamentals. ” Before problems arise and between regularly scheduled meetings, entrepreneurs should get comfortable with asking for help and advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. source: Capital IQ. To anybody who asks my advice I repeat the same line, “I don’t know whether this party will last 6 weeks, 6 months or 18 months.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Truly Focused on VC / Knowledgeable About How Partnerships Work One of the things I value in an LP is a really passionate and inside knowledge of the venture capital industry. I’ve met many smart and capable people like this but it was also clear that many of them didn’t have an intimate knowledge of what is truly unique to venture.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

But for Ansaf Kareem, venture partner at Lightspeed, the tough times can be seen as a good thing because they often create the best companies. “If 2008 and 2000), not only have we seen outstanding companies being formed, we’ve also witnessed great venture firm performance during these windows,” he said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

So when Goldman Sachs announced this week it was buying NextCapital – a fintech company that provides automated advice to corporate retirement plan participants – my ears perked up. At the height of the dot.com boom in the first quarter of 2000, the bank had invested in a record 53 startups. ” So what’s next for Fast?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Before problems arise and between regularly scheduled meetings, entrepreneurs should get comfortable with asking for help and advice. What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? The case for US venture capital outperformance. The case for US venture capital outperformance.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?&#. It’s a tricky question with no clear answer. There are trade offs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

ET, M13 Managing Partner Karl Alomar will join me on a Twitter Space to share his advice for fundraising during a downturn. On Monday, June 27 at 11:30 a.m. PT/2:30 p.m.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

A promise: We won’t run any articles on TechCrunch+ with advice for navigating a downturn unless the author actually knows what they’re talking about. Before Karl Alomar became managing partner of VC firm M13, he led one company through the dotcom bust of 2000 and helped another survive the Great Recession of 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

is the primary provider of venture capital to itself and the rest of the world, the companies vying for these funds are now more global than ever. Remember the “buy low, sell high” advice they were supposed to teach you in business school? So more of these companies march into the wide mouth of the funnel. Because the U.S.

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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’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Thus is venture capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? Before problems arise and between regularly scheduled meetings, entrepreneurs should get comfortable with asking for help and advice. What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? million on powdered fly larvae. Bon appétit!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Building a company is a high-stakes effort, so here’s a promise: I won’t approve articles with advice for navigating this downturn unless the author has direct experience with the matter. ET, Karl Alomar will join me in a Twitter Space to share more strategic advice for fundraising during a downturn. This might take a little time.”.

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