Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We found a way to make our venture capital last when it shouldn’t have, at around the same time one of my all time favorite New Yorker cartoons was published on this topic.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

It was June of 2003. Somewhere within this portfolio, you're going to find some seriously huge successes and "the best of the best" will emerge--but you really never know which ones, just like any other venture portfolio. I sat in a little ink shop on Rivington Street called Porcupine Tattoo. Seven Nation Army was playing.

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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. It was a great place to live and work, and I believed that over time, it would be a growing venture opportunity.”.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity.

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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. With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital. Union Square Ventures is an investor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 7, 2019

As a venture capitalist, should you be a Momentum or a Value investor? The first is Momentum Investing , “a strategy to capitalize on the continuance of an existing market trend”, which usually meaning that the price has been rising in the recent past. Today, some Momentum-centric venture capital investors have high paper returns.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. So rounds tend to be “range bound&# where the top end of the valuation spectrum often being done in boom markets (i.e. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Let’s start with the supposition that the venture-founder compact is built almost entirely on trust, especially early on. I would argue what she did helped undermine the entire venture compact, and that’s why she’s going to jail. The implication here is that Holmes’ rich investors deserved to lose their money.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

Upfront Ventures has a deep-seated commitment to equality in funding & building diverse teams across all ethnicities, nationalities and genders. We have much work still to do but: A few data points on Upfront Ventures - 25% of our investment dollars in the past three funds have gone to founding teams with at least one female founder.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

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. The Union Square Ventures partners started whispering in his ear that “it’s all about social now”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

million venture fund called Tiger Private Investment Partners XIV that it expects to close in March. The fund is Tiger’s 13th venture fund, despite its title — the partners might be superstitious — and it comes hot on the heels of the firm’s 12th venture fund, closed exactly a year ago, also with $3.75

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Jennifer Queen is the founder of Pina , a PR firm focused on startups and venture capital firms. Latin American venture capital and growth investments through 2018 had averaged less than $2 billion per year. With quality growth companies starved for capital, the few investors active in the region were making a killing.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The TL;DR answer to the stock option question is that MySpace options were cashed out at modest value at the time of the FIM merger, coming on the heels of the spin-out of MySpace into a separate subsidiary by parent company Intermix Media, with an infusion of new capital from Redpoint Ventures.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 9, 2018

Traditional venture investing is challenging. My colleague Victor Wang observes that Union Square Ventures is a particularly good example of the power of a correct thesis. Similarly, firms like my alma mater ff Venture Capital and Andreessen Horowitz have executed this strategy in VC. – Thesis.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

We spoke with: Todd Harrison , founding partner and CIO, CB1 Capital Management. Yoni Meyer , partner, Casa Verde Capital. Viken Douzdjian , managing partner and co-founder, Argonautic Ventures. Will Gibbs , principal, Octopus Ventures. Oliver Lamb , co-founder and investment manager, Óskare Capital.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

And the venture capital firms that pulled back in 1996 missed the best three years of return in the history of venture capital industry. What was it in 2003? Internet Uncategorized Venture Capital Investing' All of which makes predicting market tops a delicately tricky business. And what is it today?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

On the phone … Me: So, you raised venture capital? I have never come across a sophisticated A, B or C round venture capitalist who thinks convertible notes are a smart move for entrepreneur or investor. We raised a seed round. About $1 million. Me: At what price? Him: It wasn’t priced. We raised a convertible note.

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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. billion in venture capital in 2021 and $70.7 billion in the first quarter of 2022 alone, according to PitchBook’s Venture Monitor report. Startups raised $342.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2003, FreshBooks’ co-founder Mike McDerment was running a small design agency. After relaunching its accounting platform, FreshBooks has raised another $43 million. As in the case of many startups, FreshBooks was started to solve a pain point for one of its founders.

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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. Salyer was inducted into the Oklahoma Woman’s Hall of Fame in 2017. She has been recognized by Downtown Oklahoma City with the Dean A.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

.” Ibex Investors , which is based in Denver with offices in New York and Tel Aviv, was founded in 2003 with a “multi-stage” and “multi-strategy” investment strategy. Their structure is unlike the traditional venture capital firm. That opens Ibex to a whole new swath of mobility startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Roccia joined straight from Georgetown the same year, 2003, and left as the magazine’s accessories editor in 2008. NEA is an investor in Maisonette, as is Thrive Capital and the growth-stage venture firm G Squared, which just today announced it led a $30 million round in the company that brings its total funding to $50 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

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. So how did I come to work in the world of venture capital?

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

But with venture capitalists and crossover investors turning an ever-increasing number of less mature startups into unicorns, that demarcation line has lost its rigidity. based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors). That’s fair. That’s about.07

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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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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

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

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Others that are experts in this field include Matt Harris at Village Ventures and Jim Robinson at RRE. So why would raising venture capital be any different. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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