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A Weird and Wacky Approach To Angel Investing

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During the first week of that class, we all had to do a short pitch of a startup idea and convince our classmates to join our “startup”. I pitched a startup called “HubSpot”, which ended up being one of the ideas chosen. Note: this is not investment advice). Q: How should I pitch my startup to you? Not so fast.

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First Round Funding Terms and Founder Vesting

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. 2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice. I had multiple term sheets to do my Series A financing.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Dry powder’s slow fuse, landing page basics, generative AI hype

TechCrunch

Young looks back at “five key failure points” that are common potholes on every founder’s path and shares tactical advice for addressing internal conflict, losing product-market fit and other stumbles. “If these reflections help even one founder make one less mistake, I would consider this effort worthwhile.”

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6 Tips for Building Relationships with Journalists

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File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Robert Scoble interviewed me in 2006 about my startup, Koral. I wasn’t trying to pitch a tightly controlled message about my company. It was Robert’s show.

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. It’s that simple. Many term sheets ensued.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

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When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. This is part of my ongoing series with Startup Advice (although this also applies tightly with Raising Venture Capital ). Any deal – ANY DEAL – that was pre 9/11 was suddenly in question. ABC: Always Be Closing.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs ! Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. So eventually the money has to start flowing. So get out there and start raising your capital!

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