This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2011

Back at the end of 2008, when the economy was in the tank, and funding was tough to come by, NYC Seed, a small local fund with some government and local academic backing supported my startup, Path 101. That additional financing enabled Hilary Mason, our Chief Scientist at the time, to fully commit to moving to NYC.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

I know that the tone of the title and post will seem a bit aggressive for a post from a venture capitalist on fund raising. If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice Startup Advice. It is 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago.

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JULY 16, 2010

So as of 2008 total LP commitments were still at nearly $250 billion. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.] Some funds like Battery Ventures have bucked the trend by raising $750 million. After all, most people don’t understand that “venture capital is a get rich slowly&# scheme. Others will, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

In any given year there are about 50 venture-backed companies or so that are bought for $100 million or more. I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# And time is the enemy of all deals so start sooner rather than later, as anybody who was planning to raise in October 2008 will tell you.

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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. Here's how you can prevent this NYC renaisannce from being a forest fire: Fail fast.

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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. Many entrepreneurs are reliant on outside funding, whether angel investors, venture capitalists or strategic investors , to keep the venture going. The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. And what we think about Sequoia’s website , First Round Capital’s and True Ventures (we both like to copy stuff from True).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. For venture capitalists this isn’t troubling. We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. We need venture debt, factoring companies and public markets. That may be a great return for him/her but for a venture investor it’s not. Or when the economy turns downward and they all need financing extensions?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. What happened?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Often times when companies raise “bridge” financing (this is money from internal investors. I think this episode is worth watching ( video is here ) but as always I’ll try to summarize for anybody short on time.

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Both Sides of the Table

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!!!) First Round Capital & True Ventures seem to spend as much time cultivated relationships with “second round capital” as they do entrepreneurs.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I’ve recently taken a look at seed stage funding by venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors over the past five years. 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. . All Seed-VC. Silicon Valley.

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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. 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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Andy Areitio is a partner at the early-stage fund TheVentureCity , a new venture and acceleration model that helps diverse founders achieve global impact. When you’re running your own venture — especially if it’s your first — it’s unlikely you will find the time to deep dive into how venture capital firms work.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Early-stage venture capital is about extreme winners. It sold to Amazon for > $1 billion. Hint: don’t do only 2–3 deals!!

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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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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. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? Venture Financing. million from Trinity Ventures, Founder Collective, Highline Ventures, NextNew Ventures. . Watch the show!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Imagine the positions of Sequoia (Google, Zynga, YouTube), Kleiner Perkins (Google), Accel (Facebook), Union Square Ventures (Zynga, Twitter) and so on. I’m obviously only naming a small fraction of their investments since I don’t feel inclined to research them all and many other great venture firms have this kind of access.

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This is going to be BIG.

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. No one raises venture money on a 7 out of 10. You should be all good. Mediocre deals? 9’s and 10’s only!

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two. That was written in September 2008. In September 2008 this was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the rippling effect was massive.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. VCs and university endowments should partner to make venture more diverse. More posts by this contributor. How to strategically manage your startup advisor’s compensation.

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Both Sides of the Table

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!!!) First Round Capital & True Ventures seem to spend as much time cultivated relationships with “second round capital” as they do entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. And of course there are always outliers. That’s fine.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But, still, every startup, especially those seeking angel and venture capital funding, are conditioned to project this growth curve – because investors love it. Usually, entrepreneurs use bootstrapping to finance their expenses. Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Not every startup see such hockey stick growth.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 19, 2019

The same dynamic is occuring at most stages of venture investing. 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.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

Partech Partners, M Venture Partners, AC Ventures, iSeed, and Orvel Ventures. On average, patients getting surgeries such as thyroid, hemorrhoid, and orthopedic surgery are able to enjoy 15-20% better pricing versus market rates in addition to getting healthcare financing options.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A classically trained pastry chef, Christina Tosi spent years in New York City restaurants before founding Milk Bar in 2008. In contrast to her future success in finance, Kelly Peeler’s early start as an entrepreneur began with flipping refurbished furniture at the age of 11. Christina Tosi / Milk Bar. Lisa Sugar / POPSUGAR.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Simply put, equity risk premiums (ERPs) have broken down well below the ranges that were established since 2008. For the venture world specifically, this dynamic is compounded by the venture debt markets cooling, which in turn makes equity the most viable option for most. The data tells a clear and extreme story.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Everyone loves an underdog, which is why investors and tech journalists are so fond of discussing startups that launched during the Great Recession of 2008, like Airbnb, Uber, WhatsApp, Mailchimp, Square and Venmo. If your company is too nascent to be valued, convertible notes might be a viable way to secure early financing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low, new data from Pitchbook shows. So how is it that despite the recent boom in startup funding, the venture capital industry is actually becoming an even tougher place for women to raise money? of overall deal value.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. .&# Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

You could even say some are bullish: “If anything, I expect our investment pace to increase this year as early-stage fintech companies prioritize operational discipline and product differentiation,” said Emmalynn Shaw, managing partner of Flourish Ventures. Gone are the days of investing on a whim.

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