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MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. years ago. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. Since then?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2011

As a Brooklyn native who has never lived outside the five boroughs—and someone who left Big Finance—I feel a special kind of pride over what’s gone on here in the last six+ years.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. Alex Haro says that when they only had a few weeks of runway left and weren’t sure if their next round of financing was going to close, they tried every crazy idea they could think of.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC).

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) and now they’re all buying their way into innovation and talent. This is cheaper for them than waiting for big competitors and buying companies at big prices.

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MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. I started doing SnapStorms, which are short burst of video around a certain startup or financing topic. They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page? 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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JUNE 1, 2011

years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. I still have to get sales, operations, finance, HR & corp dev right to win. I agreed to finance a company today. .&# That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. So which is it?

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JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

It turned out I wasn’t such a great product manager, the technical things we were doing were about two years too early—about to be made orders of magnitude easier by a lot of cloud and big data tools, and, oh, yeah, Lehman went under when I was pitching VCs for money in 2008. Personal finance is a thing that no one likes to talk about.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

What micro VCs need to consider is what happens when several of your companies want to grow and require VC financing? Or when the economy turns downward and they all need financing extensions? At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

LPs failed to make capital calls in the late 90s during the dot-com bubble burst, after September 11, and during the financial crisis in 2008. In 2008-2009, the financial markets seized up, and there were quarters of complete uncertainty, but ultimately VCs started investing again and things normalized. This is not without precedent.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . For VCs, I chose to look at all seed stage VC deals (from MoneyTree©) as well as those in five of the most active regions in the country. All Seed-VC. Silicon Valley.

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MARCH 3, 2012

I had been looking around at several deals in late 2008 as the markets were tanking. But it was early 2009 and not many companies were getting new financings at all so I thought they should take the deal. But my other VC partner had a smaller fund and raising price would have a big impact on his ability to finance the company.

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MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) Short answer: no.

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DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. (PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. Reader beware.). Open Government. Election years tend to be good for technology diffusion. What's the business model?

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Jason Malki

MARCH 21, 2022

I graduated from college in 2008?—?before Instead, I was the guy who invested a lot in cutting my teeth in finance (including getting several licenses that I later had to give up), then switched industries, and then switched functions within my new industry. How did you break into a career in tech sales? LinkedIn is the best option!

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

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. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. The company had a huge burn rate but investors and management brought that under control by late 2008.

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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. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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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

JULY 23, 2021

During the 2008 economic downturn, Almond’s family lost their home. This is why Paystand is surfing the next wave of fintech, driven by blockchain and decentralized finance, to transform the $125 trillion B2B payment industry by offering an autonomous, cashless and feeless payment network that will be an alternative to cards, Almond said.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Business financing is often an essential component to any successful business. Whether it’s financing new ways to help reach your current business goals, or accessing extra working capital when you’re in a bind, Rapid Finance can help. Real results. Marita’s Cantina. For years, Marita’s Cantina had its ups and downs.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Venture Financings we Discussed. Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto. I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles. I’ve already started the business modeling. To get to know more about how Mike Hirshland thinks make sure to watch a bit of the interview. CEO- Randy Breen (ex-EA, and LucasArts).

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JUNE 27, 2021

We’ve had two companies where we had to bridge finance them several times before they eventually IPO’d We had a portfolio company turn-down a $350 million acquisition because they wanted at least $400 million. It sold to Amazon for > $1 billion.

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MAY 9, 2022

After the 2008 financial crash that nearly bankrupted the entire global economy, VCs took about a nine-month pause before getting back to normal. It was super hard to get any kind of financing before, and it will remain so. This time around, I think VCs will be back in the Fall and even still somewhat active this summer. VCs gonna VC.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. I looked up the funding details on Crunchbase and noticed that they closed a big round in March 2008 (e.g. If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

My own firm was involved with the sale of our portfolio company BillMeLater (an online credit company – think PayPal but for credit) to eBay for $1 billion in October 2008.

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

We got their commitment and our existing investors bridged us until the new financing round could close. Ask any entrepreneur who has been through the recent washout that began in September 2008. We committed to cost focus, customer adoption and delivering our numbers. And the beautiful thing was that Apax had only given iScraper $1.5

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? A standard entrepreneur retort I heard back then (2008-09) was “I don’t know what my company is worth now. Some thoughts on raising angel money. So let me weigh in more loudly than in the past. what technically happens?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) and now they’re all buying their way into innovation and talent. This is cheaper for them than waiting for big competitors and buying companies at big prices.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

I lived and invested through the 2008 crisis, and I’ve been trying to share the lessons I learned through that struggle with my portfolio companies, some of which I want to share with you. Remember, if you don’t ask investors for support now, someone else in their portfolio will.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

That was written in September 2008. In September 2008 this was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the rippling effect was massive. Why Financing in Falling Markets is So Damn Difficult. For every bear there’s somebody else thinking they have an opportunity. That’s the beauty of markets and of capitalism.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Usually, entrepreneurs use bootstrapping to finance their expenses. Founded in 2008, by Andre Mason and Eric Lefkofsky as an e-commerce marketplace, the revenue growth of Groupon stands as a perfect example for a hockey stick growth. Blade years usually last for 3 to 4 years, and the revenue generated is meagre.

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APRIL 28, 2010

VC Financings: 1. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories. On the show I’ll I could get him to talk about was his travels on Air Force One. Read more: PEHub.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 19, 2019

The previously fixed financial products that existed in 2008 of a $4-6M Series A and a $10-12M Series B are gone. Namely, much more diverse and varied financing options to suit the precise needs of a particular startup. Competition has brought diversity and innovation into the private capital markets.

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JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. There is no such thing as a uniform price. That’s fine. I’m a VC so I have an obvious bias.

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JULY 10, 2010

Venture Financing. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008. Michael also discussed the problems of being public including our litigious society in the US and the time that CFO’s and executive teams need to spend on both shareholders and legal issues (for a CFO it can be up to 1/3 or half their time). Want to know our opinion on the deals?

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