Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

It quickly became impossible to raise venture capital. When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. It isn’t even a story about raising venture capital or M&A. It quickly became impossible to raise venture capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Now, the company has a new name, Supplant, and $24 million in venture capital financing to start commercializing its low-cost sugar substitute made from the waste materials of other plants. “Sugar is a massive consumer of water and in contrast, there’s big sustainability pitch for what we do. Trust the process?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of a series that I’ve been working on called Understanding Venture Capital. So if a fund was raised in 2006 and the next fund was raised in 2010 it’s possible that they have two funds that “cross over&# at the same time. In a single fund of $100 million you might have 30 difference LPs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

How did the experience of pitching Iron Planet to investors affect you as a VC? (5:00 He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. 5:00 – 5:55). The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Instead of going into a pitch meeting hoping to eke out favorable terms, Rafaeli advises entrepreneurs to interrogate investors with direct questions about liquidity, exit expectations and how they intend to add value over time. “The best working relationships are those built on an equitable footing with honesty and clarity.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. I’m happy to say that in 2006-2008 we has some good exits including BillMeLater, DealerTrack, UGO Networks and PrePay Technologies to name a few. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs !

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. year old boy and another one due in 1 months. Many term sheets ensued. Tweet This Post Facebook.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

. “The invoicing company” “When they started, they didn’t position themselves so much as a startup or as a tech company,” recalls Skype founder Niklas Zennström, whose venture capital firm Atomico would eventually become a Klarna investor in 2012. Pitch perfect, you might think.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

They include Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, who said last year he was moving his venture capital firm , 8VC, from Silicon Valley to the city, and Geoff Lewis , founder and managing partner of Bedrock Capital. Austin wasn’t an overnight success.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” Shame on you.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

. “The invoicing company” “When they started, they didn’t position themselves so much as a startup or as a tech company,” recalls Skype founder Niklas Zennström, whose venture capital firm Atomico would eventually become a Klarna investor in 2012. Pitch perfect, you might think.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

I became quite good friends with a journalist at the Financial Times and eventually helped her as she wrote a book on the venture capital industry. Robert Scoble interviewed me in 2006 about my startup, Koral. I wasn’t trying to pitch a tightly controlled message about my company. It started socially.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. You will present in front of hundreds of the most successful Angel investors and Venture Capital investors.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 26, 2022

We launched in 2006 as the first full-service digital agency in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Middle East region. As a firm, we pitched campaign ideas and strategies to huge, internationally recognized brands, going up against big network agencies. We had no venture capital and weren’t part of a global agency network.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

In addition to writing up founder pitches, they’ll also rank their favorites. In August 2006, AWS activated its EC2 cloud-based virtual computer, a milestone in the cloud infrastructure giant’s development. The pre-pitch: 7 ways to build relationships with VCs. yourprotagonist. Image Credits: Ron Miller/TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. It included some well known firms that made me come for a team pitch and then only gave me literally 15 minutes when we’d scheduled an hour. My blog was wiped out. Tempus Fugit.

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

In 2006, our group published a high-profile paper in Science on the concept of water filtration with nanotubes. If an investor does 90% life science deals, then pitching them an energy deal is probably not time well spent for anyone involved. The first funnel is thematic alignment with the investor.

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