2001 advice opportunity 
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 22, 2009
This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. My advice: don’t. This was a reasonable achievement when you consider that it was 2001-02, one of the worst years to be selling enterprise software and we were selling it SaaS style, which was still evangelical back then. I’m not one of those. Your solution?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
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. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. source: Capital IQ. But it will end.
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 24, 2015
I saw a few friends politely suggesting that “now was a great stock buying opportunity” meaning that given the stock market is off by 10% it was a great chance to buy and lock in presumably low prices before the market rises again. And by this I assume he meant that “market prognosticator twitter” was vomitous.
TechCrunch
APRIL 4, 2023
Drawing from the early chapters of her book, this post includes a target prospect list for new investors, along with relationship-building advice from experienced VCs. “This represents a huge opportunity for the startup community, and we are seeing lots of companies with a head start on this idea.”
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
If you want that advice please click on the link. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. He was there for me when I needed it.
TechCrunch
MARCH 21, 2023
VCs would return capital to LPs because they don’t see attractive investment opportunities that are good fits with their mandate, fund size, [and so forth]. Any advice to founders on this front? Now, if you were to tell me VCs were starting to return capital to LPs, I could see some parallels. It’s not the end of the world.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
Again, this is highly individualized so no generic advice can be offered. But if you’re on the precipice of a big market opportunity then having more capital & resources can be critical. Anyone who meets with me privately these days gets this advice: The market is whack right now. Use it to your advantage.
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