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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 22, 2010
This is part of my startup advice series. It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. So you combine my generation of cynics with the GenY generation of &# entitlement&# (until 2008 – you only saw BOOM years other than a short dot-com blip). I’m sure of that.
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. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. Let’s be honest – the same is true for VC’s.
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2010
My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
They should heed the age old advice that raising slightly more money while you can is always better than trying to optimize future valuations. Bu when you start to worry that the world is ending (as it seemed it was in late 2008 / early 2009) you tend to get worried about large burn rates. So we have almost no triage problem.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 5, 2023
The support of my EO Forum mates — who have experience beyond my years — has expanded my capacity for success and taught me to look at business in a new way. It’s incredibly valuable to have overall support from likeminded people. During the 2008 housing crisis, my company was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 20, 2011
In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 This becomes a support group and allows them to help each other succeed. They decided to run the fund close to home in West Conshohocken, PA where they still have offices. During the first year of the fund they took forty-eight trips to California! They have sixteen people on staff.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2010
Our existing investors supported us and a new lead came in. Exercise hadn’t been enough of a priority in 2008-09. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this. I somehow never really felt stressed during all of this. At least not externally.
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