TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Ajay has been an instrumental investor since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003. Ajay is coming to Early Stage just weeks after Bain Capital Ventures announced two new funds. Long-time, early-stage investor Ajay Agarwal is hosting a roundtable to discuss lessons learned with other Early Stage attendees.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As in, “your money into my company will convert at a 15-20% discount to the next round of capital I raise with a maximum price of $8 million pre-money valuation (or whatever the cap was).” I thought we got rid of that s**t in 2003? If we don’t raise a bone fide round of capital (say, $1.5 Enter “the cap.”

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MARCH 8, 2018

He suggested an idea that comes from the NFL called “ The Rooney Rule ” enacted in 2003 in an effort to end the era of all-white football coaches in a league with > 75% African American players. Thank you to Hamet Watt for being such a positive leader in the African American community?—?I It takes a village.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

The difference in Europe is that there is opportunity for non-cannabis players to potentially get strategic and attempt to enter the market through an integration of cannabis as a CPG [consumer packaged good] or pharmaceutical-grade option,” said Todd Harrison, founding partner at CB1 Capital Management. will.i.am , investor, Sanity Group.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. McGee Award and was the 2003 Journal Record Woman of the Year. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma? Get started! Oklahoma is very friendly to entrepreneurs.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

So, I sort of grew up as a product manager at Google in the early days of the company working on Google AdWords, when we just launched AdWords, I think back in 2003. And when it comes to financial services, one of the most common and ubiquitous challenges is the access to capital, right? You need capital to run a business.

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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. We built a long-term relationship.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

On the phone … Me: So, you raised venture capital? ’ But do you want to start a relationship with your most important supplier – that of capital to fuel your business – by avoiding talking about his or her expectations in terms of rights or privileges? Isn’t that conflicting advice? Me: With a cap?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: So, you raised venture capital? Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. On the phone ….

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JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies.

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