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. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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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. 6mm in Series A: Investors: Union Square Ventures (Brad Burnham) (lead), Ron Conway, Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake, Naval Ravikant, Nirav Tolia, Joshua Schachter, Micah Siegel, Bob Pasker – Read more: VentureBeat.

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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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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

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. So my advice: go ahead and ask for a valuation that 2 years ago wouldn’t have been likely. I thought I’d post on one of the topics before hand. Here’s what I mean.

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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. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. Twitter wanted to raise money for this new venture at a pre-money valuation which was quite a bit higher than First Round’s $10 million limit.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. I spent a bunch of time thinking about this position — especially since Beezer is an investor in Upfront Ventures. Beezer did.

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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. In any given year there are about 50 venture-backed companies or so that are bought for $100 million or more. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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StartupNation

MARCH 30, 2021

I’ll share some advice based on work on entrepreneurial failure that I’ve done as a Harvard Business School professor. I want to warn you about the challenges that you’ll face when leading an early-stage venture. While this advice is mostly sound, following it blindly might actually boost your odds of failing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

My mentor’s advice felt like a parental reprimand. Many successes (and even more failures) later, the advice still rings true. After all, starting and running a business is a high-stakes venture. His advice for business leaders is simple and follows in the same vein: Follow your effort, not your passion.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Typically limited to giving advice or consuming, Title III will give non-accredited investors far more influence over products, services, and planning. Onevest does not give investment, legal or tax advice. will increase from 3.5 million to 233.7 INVEST IN STARTUPS. fund your startup. This site is operated by Onevest Corporation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

You could even say some are bullish: “If anything, I expect our investment pace to increase this year as early-stage fintech companies prioritize operational discipline and product differentiation,” said Emmalynn Shaw, managing partner of Flourish Ventures. Gone are the days of investing on a whim.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Great seed investors like Bryce Roberts / OATV (and other great ones like Floodgate , Founder Collective , Information Arbitrage or Rincon Ventures ) still get all the dealflow the need. But privately here is what I say every week, “I was at the dot com cocktail party in 99-2000. They bring specific expertise (e.g.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. StockTwits) where you really want to know more about the person giving you advice. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.

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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. Have a great week!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. But there are also problems / risks: - the funding environment might change dramatically – there may never be a next round (see: March 2000, September 11, 2001 and September 2008). - 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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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 12, 2021

She would also give Jimmy Buffet advice on merchandising and Golden Buffet on different menu changes. This, following a series of acquisitions, some new business ventures, and subsidiary launches. While there she was fascinated by how these aliens had achieved an impeccable 2000 straight quarters of growth. Predictive modeling.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

ED ZIMMERMAN : The funnel for venture funding isn’t cylindrical — it’s shape follows a more Darwinian conical path, as many seed stage companies march into the cone’s wide entrance and far fewer make it to the cone’s narrow end.

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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. Don’t drink it.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

I say at 500,000 a technician, I need 2000 technicians. But what we’ve learned is, private equity is warming our way, capital venture list… There’s so many people that want our cash flow, what they’re learning is, you were part of software. So, what I did is I wrote down, Grant Cardone 10 times.

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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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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. Tempus Fugit.

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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

APRIL 6, 2022

Laura Lorek has lived in the Austin area since 2000, where she's been writing about established companies like Dell, NI, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Google, Meta and tech startups like Opcity, now Realtor.com, Homeaway, now VRBO, RetailMeNot, Indeed.com, Homeward, OJO Labs and others. She launched Silicon Hills News in 2011. Register here.

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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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