Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Or worse yet they may never get financed. Raise at “ the top end of normal &# but not so high that future financings in a corrected market become impossible. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. I have mostly taken over helping my dad with his finances. Many of these complaints stem from the charges individuals found on their credit card statements.&# Background. I was home visiting my father in Sacramento.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. But if 2011 & 2012 look more like 2008-2009 than 2010 then one of the most important skills of angel investors will be whether they can get their companies financed (or ramen profitable, but this is harder to sustain over a long period of time).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Exit Problem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Financed by private investors, and media conglomerate Vivendi, the company declined to disclose its total capital raised to date. It’s a chess server, forum and networking site that launched in 2005, with premium subscription that ranges between $5 a month or $29 a year. The product will be available to the public by the end of month.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting. You still need the presentation to back that up.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. Companies ultimately go through multiple rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. But if 2011 & 2012 look more like 2008-2009 than 2010 or 2005-2007 then one of the most important skills of angel investors will be whether they can get their companies financed (or ramen profitable, but this is harder to sustain over a long period of time).

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) was spun out, and the valuation was set by that financing round.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. There have also been many high profile financings of infrastructure players to support these gaming platforms including Offerpal Media, SuperRewards (bought by AdKnowledge), Gambit and more recently LA-based Sometrics. The iPhone success is more profound than just iPhone apps.

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VC venture capital networking innovation 255

Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2016

.’s annual GrowCo conference on Wednesday, the entrepreneur, investor, and Internet advocate divulged the most valuable lessons he’s learned since he launched the hugely popular website in 2005. –before coming back to lead Reddit. . Great founders don’t quit, but do adapt.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2019

In a review of MBA students, the study found about 36 percent of females chose a risky career in finance (like investment banking or trading), compared to 57 percent of their male counterparts. A former professional athlete, Nagtegaal speed-skated with the North Holland Region/Utrecht KNSB from 2005 to 2008.

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opportunity innovation advice entrepreneurs 152

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. It is 2010. That means that they likely raised money at a particularly high price relative to 2010 prices.

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venture capital capital ventures advice 289

TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Ribbit Capital led the financing, which also included participation from DST Global, NFX and Zigg Capital. Flint co- founded another online real estate giant, Trulia and was its CEO and chairman from its 2005 inception until it was acquired by Zillow for $2.5 That’s a massive seed round by any standards (the third-largest in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 The paid had worked together before — founding their first online payments company, MOIP, in 2005. million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital.

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capital real estate disruption financing 88

TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

One is S3 Ventures , a venture capital firm that’s been around since 2005, which raised $250 million for its Fund VII, touting itself as “the largest venture capital fund focused on Texas-based startups.” We are here to help early-stage companies finance their assets,” she said. Digging into the Alkami Technology IPO.

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ventures real estate startup venture capital 92

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2014

I’m using Crunchbase data since 2005 for tech companies in the US. Assuming a three month fundraising process, the best times of year to start a financing process is in September, targeting a December close, when investment sizes are 15% larger than average and investment volumes are 50% larger.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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investing investment media mix-use 143

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the mid-1990s, he co-founded WildCard Systems, an early independent processor of prepaid cards, that was acquired by eFunds in 2005 for about $250 million. A group of strategic individual investors also participated in the latest financing. million in pre-seed funding and SAFE financings. Payall previously raised $8.2

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

Register Joseph Lee has a strong track record in the finance industry throughout his career to date. Between 2006 and 2015, I joined one of the leading Islamic banks in the world, Kuwait Finance House, as the pioneering team to set up its Private Equity Division in Asia.

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capital investing investment venture capital 96

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The round, which is a combination of equity and debt financing, lists investors from the Middle East, including DisruptAD and (the VC arm of ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund), and SHUAA (a major UAE asset management and investment banking firm). The biopharma industry uses more optimistic numbers.

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transportation health VC development 87

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I was sitting with the financing guy who was trying to upsell me everything from pre-paying service to prepaying dent repair coverage, etc. I was chatting with the finance guy and he was cycling through all the things he wanted to bait-and-switch me to and he asked if I wanted a lease in stead of a purchase. But I digress.

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Feedough

APRIL 14, 2021

This term is believed to have first appeared in a blog post by Rex Hammock on May 11, 2005. Thus, acqui-hiring establishes them in a reputable position which aids them in obtaining financing for future projects. Acqui-hiring is simply a strategy that assists the growth of the company with the expertise of recruited employees.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That’s the opportunity a new fintech startup called Luxus , co-founded by two women with experience in both finance and luxury fashion, is hoping to bring to investors. per annum] from 2005 to 2020, beating both the S&P 500 and gold by more than 200%,” Auslander said. “This particular stone has returned [11.5%

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financing finance investing investment 82

Y Combinator

JUNE 25, 2021

Last week, we launched our Summer 2021 batch here at Y Combinator, the 33rd batch since our founding in 2005. It is also certainly correct that raising capital is extremely important to early-stage startup companies as they finance their product development and the growth they plan and hope for.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Now, everyone sees Google as this huge company with endless products and expansive teams, but back in 2005 when I worked there, it didn’t seem like a megacompany. For instance, in health and finance, credibility and trust are critical.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jerusalem’s economy and therefore startup scene suffered after the second Intifada (the Palestinian uprising that began in late September 2000 and ended around 2005). There are three main hubs for the Israeli tech scene (in order of size): Tel Aviv, Herzliya and Jerusalem. billion (£7 billion), came from Jerusalem.

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startup ecosystem startup incubation culture 88

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

2005 / Ask your employees for feedback. Our recent phone number feature additions were designed to help you eliminate a phone bill, and we are working to add more customized packages this year to more closely match our clients’ needs. I confess that wasn’t always the case.

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peer-to-peer culture entrepreneurs strategy 130

Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 9, 2016

In 2005, an economist named Benjamin Jones published a paper called The Burden of Knowledge and the ‘Death of the Renaissance Man’: Is Innovation Getting Harder? Remarkably, the Eastgate maintains an ambient temperature between 73-78°F despite variances in external temperatures from 58° to 88°.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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investing investment media mix-use 82

Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. They bring in experts in legal, finance, marketing, business development, design, engineering, advertising, growth hacking, and other areas. Back in 2005 no one anticipated the success of YCombinator, not even its founders.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Using Crunchbase data , I charted the financing follow-on rates across the 12 US cities in which at least 10 seeds, 3 Series As and 3 Series Bs have occured in the Crunchbase data set from 2005-2014. Or is it that New York based startups, because of a smaller ecosystem, face more difficulty?

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 18, 2014

These record financings certainly generate significant press interest. Each chart shows the number of rounds raised bucketed by size from $0 to $5M and up to $150M to $200M from 2005 to 2013. But how representative of the fund raising environment are these mega-rounds?

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VC financing finance enablement 40

Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Below is a chart of 726 startups who raised a seed and a follow-on Series A anytime from 2005-2013. First, Series As rarely exceed $10M for companies with seed stage financing and the distribution of these financings tends to be relatively independent of seed investment size. Each dot represents one startup.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2011

Its what we had in our house back in 1987 and I used PCs through my finance career as well. I had a flip screen Toshiba at USV back in 2005, where I found myself to be as equally poor at note taking as I am now. When I first bought my iPad about two weeks ago, I took quite a bit of ribbing. I'm a PC guy through and through.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

When Y Combinator launched in 2005, starting a startup was an unusual career path for recent graduates. To get a sense of how many startups were in the world, look at TechCrunch in 2005. For example, lots of folks choose a career in finance or as an engineer at a big company without considering other options.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

.” “These directions are issued under sections 21, 35A and 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, sections 45JA, 45L and 45M of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, sections 30A and 32 of the National Housing Bank Act, 1987, section 6 of the Factoring Regulation Act, 2011 and section 11 of the Credit Information Companies (Regulation) (..)

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