2001 advice pitching 
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. It’s that simple.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 5, 2023
Last August, I passed the point at which I had spent literally half my entire life working in this asset class, having started at the General Motors pension fund doing institutional investments in venture funds and late-stage directs back in February of 2001. No more founder pitch meetings. No new investments.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
I lived through this again September 2001. This is part of my ongoing series with Startup Advice (although this also applies tightly with Raising Venture Capital ). I lived through this again September 2001. Many companies that were in the process of raising money did not. Anybody who didn’t close was dead.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 18, 2009
You’ve got to be able to come out of unsuccessful VC meetings, pull your socks up, and go into the next pitch. This was soon after the bursting of the dot com bubble – in early 2001. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. They believe in you and they draw strength from you.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2010
Then I got engaged to be married in late 2001 and had the motivation to get really serious. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. It became a social activity. 8-miler in Munich with the CEO of a company we were trying to buy. You manage what you measure.
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. Not always TechCrunch+ roundup: #OpenToWork reality check, deck-free pitching, ARR growth lessons by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch
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. Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them.
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