2001 advice strategy 
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JULY 29, 2010
The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). If you are thinking about angel investors please read this piece I did on Angel Funding Advice. Tags: Start-up Advice. I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. I eventually needed more money.
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MAY 7, 2011
Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Twitter had a fundamentally flawed strategy from the beginning.
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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. Exactly the opposite of what a rational investment strategy would advise. But it’s not enough to justify over-paying for deals. source: Capital IQ. What a bubble means for each entrepreneur.
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. They should heed the age old advice that raising slightly more money while you can is always better than trying to optimize future valuations. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class.
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MARCH 11, 2010
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). - I say define a strategy, test it up front and pivot if you’re not getting the traction you had expected. .&# If it works you’re a hero.
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DECEMBER 11, 2022
2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. How’s that advice holding up? Deep down I love working with founders and products, strategy, go-to-market, financial management, pricing and all aspects of building a startup. Until we weren’t. Nobody cared about our valuations any more. Let’s deploy faster!
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OCTOBER 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. They picked apart holes in our strategy and they were right. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. He handled this perfectly.
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