Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment). Just because the valuation in absolute terms isn’t a big difference does not mean that people aren’t paying higher than intrinsic value for these investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

It’s meant to be a bit provocative but the reality is that I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the the time and I usually leave the “e&# off of the end. I normally offer this advice in the capacity of really wanting to help entrepreneurs so please bear with me. It is 2010. The list goes on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Tags: Start-up Advice. LibreDigital.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The speaks to the continued confidence in the venture capital markets and as I had predicted some time ago the VC markets right now are a great place to invest – especially relative to other places to put one’s money. Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012. But that’s it.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains. So, too, investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. On a panel that I sat on with Ron in LA in 2008 he stated that there were no circumstances in which the founder should take money off of the table. It’s that simple. I believe this is wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. Ironic to be self-centered while you’re trying to offer advice to others. But how can you invest in technology unless you’re going to use the tools and understand them? In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 17, 2022

During the 2008 recession, while everyone else was hanging onto the gunwales of tossing ships, offering bargains, and hoping for a quick end to the pain, a restaurant near our office started remodeling. The following is my advice on how to not just survive, but thrive, during a downturn along with examples of how we’ve used these strategies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. This is part of my ongoing series with Startup Advice (although this also applies tightly with Raising Venture Capital ).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

That next round of investment is proving difficult. I jumped on a plane and immediately flew to New York for just 1 day to meet with the Chief Investment Officer of ETF. Ask any entrepreneur who has been through the recent washout that began in September 2008. It’s a gritty existence. We had a rallying cry.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. They should heed the age old advice that raising slightly more money while you can is always better than trying to optimize future valuations. Short answer – yes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

It’s the one bit of advice I find myself giving most frequently these days, “raise money at the top end of normal.&#. 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. Here’s what I mean. They are pretty illiquid.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Tags: Start-up Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

When I described to people why I initially invested my calls went something like this, “He’s taken kicks to the face for nearly 2 years and is still standing. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. Through this process he raised $2 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 16, 2023

The firm is founded on experience in both business operations and private equity investments. In an interview with AsiaTechDaily, Mun warns against investing in the business rather than the people and advises entrepreneurs to be realistic in their funding requests. I will say my domain expertise is in venture and growth investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I told him that our market was absolutely booming and was worthy of a commensurate investment. Not that I’ll take credit for what I’m about to announce, but I knew that if somebody could commit to building out LA and making the investments required to kick ass in this market it would be Cooley. Invest they have.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Join the rest of the nation including equity crowdfunding platforms like 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors, where currently only accredited investors are allowed to invest. Even the more realistic projection, $300 billion , is 10 times the current VC investment market. So why the hold up?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2012

I had been looking around at several deals in late 2008 as the markets were tanking. It mapped pretty well to my dream team for an A round investment. The other VC offered to invest $2 million alongside my $2 million so the company would be getting more money.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

ET, M13 Managing Partner Karl Alomar will join me on a Twitter Space to share his advice for fundraising during a downturn. Long-term angel investing: Understanding capital requirements and how to find quality investments. Long-term angel investing: Understanding capital requirements and how to find quality investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

A standard entrepreneur retort I heard back then (2008-09) was “I don’t know what my company is worth now. Can you imagine investing in the stock market where your price was determined at a future date and the better that company performed the HIGHER the price you paid for that investment. Investors call Bull Cap.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As a startup entrepreneur who is actively growing his business, Peter recently attended the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in Denver, Colorado, where he pitched Table and Desk in EO’s first DX Angel-Shark Experience and received a US$250,000 investment in his company. . Our clients ranged from not-for-profits to luxury boatbuilders.

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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. There are times in life when playing it safe is good advice—like wearing a seatbelt, for example, or looking both ways before crossing the street.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Investing is similar. The below analysis outlines an approach to quantify the attractiveness of investing in commercial real estate at a given point. Great advice, but hard to do the “correct” thing when consumed by either of those emotions. Such hard data can increase investment conviction when either is tempting.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Investing is similar. The below analysis outlines an approach to quantify the attractiveness of investing in commercial real estate at a given point. Great advice, but hard to do the “correct” thing when consumed by either of those emotions. Such hard data can increase investment conviction when either is tempting.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Clearly, Alexandria, Virginia-based QED was investing in fintech before fintech was “cool.” The firm has come a long way from when it closed its first fund — $30 million of internal capital — in 2008. It has so far made one investment out of that growth fund, which has not yet been publicly announced. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. In both cases, about 25% of their overall investments went into fintech startups. Gone are the days of investing on a whim. And, while global fintech funding slid by 46% to $75.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

The end of the lengthy startup boom that first formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and largely powered through until the final months of 2021 is shaking out, changing how the market views certain entities. And some crypto investments that looked to be massive wins have sputtered.

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Forward Cities

JANUARY 30, 2020

It is extremely vital to me and my team that we ‘even the playing field’ and create even more opportunities and invest in these neglected and underserved areas that are still impacted by past corruption. I graduated from Michigan State University with a BS in Clinical Laboratory Science in 2008. A: You have to support each other.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

” I interviewed Gupta last month to find out more about the opportunities he’s looking for and get his advice for first-time founders, but last week’s Space was a chance to dive deeper. I think climate investing, what I do, is still extremely brisk. It could take a little bit longer than that, but not that much.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

What is your advice for entrepreneurs to achieve such longevity? My advice for longevity is to always stay tuned to your values. You believe that leaders should embrace their culture and values more deeply in a crisis and cite the 2008 Great Recession as an example. This was a defining moment in our culture. .

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

In 2008 Eric co-founded his own startup, RockMelt, and ran the company as CEO until its acquisition by Yahoo last year. We believe that successful early-stage venture investing is just that: a craft. Eric expects to spend the majority of time investing, among other things, in enterprise and infrastructure companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

“Decreased consumer confidence, inflated brand value, and a freeze in investment capital are creating a perfect storm,” says David Wright, co-founder and CEO of Pattern, an e-commerce accelerator. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. “We all know how that turned out.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Fast-forward to today: Against the backdrop of inflation, the stock market in 2022 saw its worst drop since 2008, and companies are laying people off while tightening their purse strings. Where else can you invest to drive higher returns and to build a more durable competitive advantage?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. market, choosing New York and L.A.

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