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Startup Founders Should Flip Burgers

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This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. But some companies have entrepreneurs that seem talented on paper, are in a space that seems interesting to investors and are able to raise venture capital early in the company’s existence. True story.) 2 weeks later and we may never have raised any more VC.

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Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs?

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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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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

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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. It quickly became impossible to raise venture capital. It isn’t even a story about raising venture capital or M&A. They accepted my argument. Any deal.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

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This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. It’s also meaningless if they had four $200 million funds and the last one they closed was in 2000. GRP’s last fund was in 2000. It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

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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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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. Tweet This Post Facebook.

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7 Tips for Building a Strong, Vibrant Network

This is going to be BIG.

Networking is not just handing someone a business card or giving them a pitch. I'd say just about everyone in my LinkedIn network , all 2000 of them, are people who I've at least had the equivilant of a 1:1 lunch with. These are people that will really go to bat for you because they know you beyond the business card.