Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. I start to notice when bad behavior creeps into the system as a whole. I have seen much of that behavior over the past 2 years get worse.

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APRIL 23, 2011

Are you thematic in your investing or entrepreneur focused? (11:40-14:15). In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. Highland has been around for 22 years currently investing the 8 th fund which is $400 million. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). 11:40-14:15).

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 26, 2022

A former venture capitalist, Mark Leonard started Constellation in 1995 with $15m of outside investment & a goal of buying vertical software companies with a moat & good unit economics. From 2003 to 2014, Constellation’s revenues compounded from $80m to more than $5b, an average of 25% annually.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. KNOX Knox created Frictionless Ownership to make owning investment property as simple as owning a share of stock.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Martino founded Bullpen in 2010 with a focus on post-seed, pre-Series A startups, and he led the fund’s investments in companies like FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. This geographic distinction is now less about actual geography and more about mentality and style of investing of these types of firms.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. I’m not looking to invest there – I’m looking to understand the trends, the people, the innovation, the regions and how China can become an integral part of any of my portfolio companies as they scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. I’m not looking to invest there – I’m looking to understand the trends, the people, the innovation, the regions and how China can become an integral part of any of my portfolio companies as they scale.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 2, 2024

I started out in September 2003 at avc.typepad.com but moved to avc.com a few years later. And, as you may know or suspect, USV has invested in both of them and now will be a major shareholder in the merged company. I’ve blogged at AVC.com for a very long time. AVC.com has been my home for blogging for over twenty years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

If you invested in the first angel round of a startup company it is usually very hard to sell your stock – usually for many years if ever at all. The earlier you invest the higher the chances the company won’t work out and thus you pay a lower price than later-stage investors. Private markets for stocks are the opposite.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2003, she started Ruby Receptionists , a one-of-a-kind virtual receptionist company where high-tech meets great people and 5-star performance. Our Forum thinks so highly of Jill that we nicknamed her JBoss — an honorific she more than earned. Here’s her story.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

But that’s hardly fair compensation when your former cube mate gave you $25,000 of money she didn’t really have to invest in you, took tons of risks with her money, and now has to pay a VC price for that money a year after she invested it. I thought we got rid of that s**t in 2003? Investors call Bull Cap.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

You have a “strategic investor&# who wants to invest in your B round as long as a financial investor will lead. It was 2003 and I was training for a marathon so I was in great shape (yes, I know this was YEARS ago but I did complete it in 3:57). Your A round investors are not stepping up. - You raised $1.5 Small story.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

I ran a marathon with my colleague in 2003 – I’m still bummed that he beat me even though he was clearly more athletic. In the end we decided not to invest in either company (retrospectively a good decision as the market is no longer “hot&# and both companies have struggled). For me winning IS the fun.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

2) Invest in the proper tools. Berkeley in 2003 through the Interdisciplinary Studies Field program, Andrew writes and consults for numerous clients in the field of product design, software, and professional services. Get a website, blog regularly, learn how to get found by the search engines, and establish yourself on social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

We strive to invest in companies that are consciously working to create a diverse leadership team?—?one 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Morgan, Gaingels, BMO Technology & Innovation Banking Group and Manulife also participated in the equity investment, along with platform partner and new backer Barclays. In 2003, FreshBooks’ co-founder Mike McDerment was running a small design agency. Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment.

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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It is important to consider doing something similar if you are thinking about investing in a startup. Before committing to an investment, it is important to understand what you are buying and what you are getting into. On the angel investing platform, this component is called Broker Review. What is due diligence?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2019

As the founder of Poe Group Advisors , a company that has been facilitating the sale and transfer of accounting firms since 2003, Brannon is no stranger to connecting people and growing an organization. The time and energy invested are starting to come back in spades. I would say that I’ve been energized by this in a big way.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). Revenue metrics are one of the first things I ask for from the startups in which I invest. Nobody likes to raise money then look like a loser. Revenue Metrics.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

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. Me: So, who was willing to invest in that? At an accelerator ….

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Then I found out that Dave McClure had already invested along with many others in a Silicon Valley seed round even though the company is in Alabama. When I trained for the London Marathon in 2003 I bought a Nike device that I put on my shoe that measured my distance and pace via my Nike watch. Now how much would you pay?!?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. Axios reported that this was 211% over the number of dollars invested in 2020. ?. Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Cradle, established in 2003, holds a rich legacy of supporting more than 1,000 Malaysian tech firms, making contributions amounting to over 3.4 Simultaneously, Bursa Malaysia will leverage the data shared by Cradle to work collaboratively on programs designed to streamline and improve funding access for budding entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Sure, due diligence matters in the investment process, but lying about your capabilities can undercut the founder-investor relationship — and in extreme cases, to the detriment of the larger, global startup market. Let’s start with the supposition that the venture-founder compact is built almost entirely on trust, especially early on.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

LMS365: Tracking and reporting Image Credits : LMS365 The story so far LMS365’s history can be traced back to 2003, when dentist Bjarne Mortensen founded a company called Elearningforce that was focused squarely on on-premise deployments of Microsoft Sharepoint. Germany, and Australia.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 21, 2019

and the George Kaiser Family Foundation recently co-led a $4 million Series A investment round in THG Energy Solutions, LLC, a Tulsa and Austin-based provider of energy management and demand response technology serving multi-facility clients throughout North America. The George Kaiser Family Foundation invested $2 million in the seed round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

K1 Investment Management, a big name in later-stage SaaS investments, is the sole investor in this round, which is Ocelot’s first-ever outside funding. Of course, why that happens is down to a complex set of reasons, but Ocelot’s bet is that one of the biggest is money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, to weigh in on what we are seeing, and while they’re trying to make sense of things, too, they noted a couple of things that could impact the velocity of deal-making that we’ve been seeing. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Investments and M&A in the sector are also being spurred by Germany’s promised legislation. Oliver Lamb , co-founder and investment manager, Óskare Capital. billion by 2026. Our belief is that M&A will be front of mind for all legal cannabis operators. Viken Douzdjian , managing partner and co-founder, Argonautic Ventures.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Because of the time and investment needed to bring deep tech solutions to market, many startups require significant and sustained capital to get up and running. ACCESSIBLE PRIVATE MARKET INVESTING Build a diversified portfolio with streamlined deal flows using a private market investing platform. Startups raised $342.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Ajay has been an instrumental investor since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003. He spends most of his time investing in early-stage application software companies, so if that’s you, you’re not going to want to miss this roundtable. If you haven’t already, book your pass soon as we’re quickly approaching capacity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Back in 2003, Stérin co-founded Smartbox Group , the company behind many popular experience gift boxes. With Otium Capital, the family office has a broad investment strategy from leveraged buy-outs to real estate — and it has done quite a few startup investments over the years. Some past investments include PayFit and Owkin.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Morgan, and was a managing investment partner at SoftBank. Latin American venture capital and growth investments through 2018 had averaged less than $2 billion per year. As a banker covering technology, I thought there was an opportunity to invest in the region and decided to quit my job at J.P. He formerly worked with J.P.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! I’m talking Tom Watson at the British Open or Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people. SOPA would disproportionately alter the risk profile for new startups, which are thinly capitalized compared to the giants like Google and Facebook.

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