Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 To say something that is not credible.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. It’s my job to invest wisely in entrepreneurs who are capital efficient, who innovate in ways that pay off economically in good markets or bad and who plan for worst-case scenarios.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

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. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. I already had this argument with Ron Conway and we disagree on the topic.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Some LPs might not make capital calls because they are worried about the environment, and some LPs might actually no longer have the liquidity to fulfill these capital calls. 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.

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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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APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry. I like the way he thinks.

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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?

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Alomar, who led startups through the dotcom bust of 2000 and the Great Recession of 2008, will talk about whether investors are still prioritizing growth over profits, and identify which proof points founding teams must define before their next raise. ” 3 tips for biotech startups seeking non-dilutive capital to weather the downturn.

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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. We had companies pitching us that had almost no revenue at all and they were raising $10-15 million in capital at a $40-50 million pre-money valuation. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“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.” 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. Many entrepreneurs come by with great pitches and say, “I’m hoping to have term sheets in the next 30 days.” I pitch a lot of LPs.

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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. based venture capital firms raised $74.1 You may need more than one pitch deck. That amount rose to $121.5

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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. 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landscape of new companies emerging in Silicon Valley. More posts by this contributor. Building A Diverse Board Makes Sense For Startups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

That’s painful, but for perspective: TechCrunch tracked more than 100,000 tech layoffs between August and December 2008. Before Karl Alomar became managing partner of VC firm M13, he led one company through the dot-com bust of 2000 and helped another survive the Great Recession of 2008. Jonathan Martinez, founder, JMStrategy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

“It’s comparable to the financial crisis of 2008, when poor financial products were lumped together in order to diversify risk and make them look better than they actually were,” he writes. Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M Five Flute’s founders shared their slightly redacted pitch deck with us.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Between his roles as co-leader of Mayfield Fund’s engineering biology practice and founder at IndieBio, Arvind Gupta reviewed approximately 470 startup pitches last year. I’ve always said that the low-interest rate environment that we’ve had really since 2008 has generated an interest-free loan on risky startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

But for Ansaf Kareem, venture partner at Lightspeed, the tough times can be seen as a good thing because they often create the best companies. “If 2008 and 2000), not only have we seen outstanding companies being formed, we’ve also witnessed great venture firm performance during these windows,” he said.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In March of 2008, Perry Chen contacted me to ask for my help with fundraising--not the kind of crowd fundraising that he specializes in--but venture capital. When Perry first pitched, Kickstartr was about bands raising money to cut their next album. It was before Kickstarter got its "e" and it was spelled "Kickstartr."

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

From CAIA : “Before 2008, a widely accepted rule of thumb was for a [hedge] seeder to expect 1% of revenues for each $1 million of seed capital. Further reading: 15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund. Microcredentials for the Effective Venture Capital or Private Equity Investor.

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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

MARCH 7, 2022

days of 2008. Blumberg Capital was the company’s first institutional investor. TechCrunch Live is thrilled to have CEO Netzer and Blumberg Capital partner Yodfat Harel Buchris speak to DoubleVerify’s early pitch deck on March 16 at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

It’s Thursday, which means that Haje also wrote another installment of his popular Pitch Deck Teardown series on our subscription site TechCrunch Plus. Before Karl Alomar became managing partner of VC firm M13, he led one company through the dotcom bust of 2000 and helped another survive the Great Recession of 2008.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

From CAIA : “Before 2008, a widely accepted rule of thumb was for a [hedge] seeder to expect 1% of revenues for each $1 million of seed capital. Further reading: 15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund. Microcredentials for the Effective Venture Capital or Private Equity Investor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

days of 2008. Blumberg Capital was the company’s first institutional investor. TechCrunch Live is thrilled to have CEO Netzer and Blumberg Capital partner Yodfat Harel Buchris speak to DoubleVerify’s early pitch deck on March 16 at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Drawing from his experience of leading startups through the dot.com implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar said it’s critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive. Your fundraising pitch deck needs appendices. Your fundraising pitch deck needs appendices. When it’s OK to leave money on the table.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Like always, each episode features an entrepreneur presenting their early pitch deck along with the investor who funded the company. We want to know how the founder hooked the VC, what makes their partnership work and how other founders can improve their storytelling and pitching. days of 2008.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Goin’ retro, with a 15-year-old pitch deck : Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008 , by Haje. Cutting with kindness : Leslie Crowe discusses how you can make layoffs suck less , including how to announce job cuts and retain top performers. You can sign up here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. The best company pitches are those that have this narrative. Many people equate a great pitch meeting with success.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

Pitch Deck Teardown: Lumigo’s $29M Series A deck. ” Pitch Deck Teardown: Lumigo’s $29M Series A deck. We will publish on a reduced schedule over Memorial Day weekend; I hope you enjoy the break. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist. Image Credits: Lumigo. “That makes perfect sense.”

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