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. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. We had a specific goal in mind. Yeah, he was LA, baby!

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2019

If you’re lacking for track record as a firm, here’s three exercises you should walk through to help turn your pitch and due diligence meetings from guesswork into something more substantive. Obviously, that’s ideal, but that’s not where everyone starts. This is actually easily referenced. For example, let’s say I had a more national fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. Of the 106 judges who preceded her 105 of them were men (Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Since 2009 I have been counseling people to offer discounts to the first angel investors. The second way is to pitch them like normal but offer them a discount. The pitch is really simple: “We’re going to be raising $750,000 – $1 million. This can be time consuming.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

of the funding raised since 2009, while Latinx female founders saw only 0.4% So, if you’re a female founder faced with the prospect of pitching to VCs — what steps can you take to set yourself up for success? It’s essential to make sure your sales, pitch and negotiation skills are on point. of total investment dollars.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate. Taskrabbit; Nov 2009 What is one question you ask yourself before investing in a company? What is one piece of advice you’d give every founder? Pitch your startup for an opportunity to meet with Floodgate. Q&A: What is your / your fund's mission?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Be an intern” And by the way, this is 2009. You remember what 2009 was like, right? And you mentioned it to earlier in this experience with – if an entrepreneur wants to show tenacity, he would meet me in the parking lot, but he wouldn’t meet you to pitch you, he met you and he did something that might help you.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. What did we owe our sponsors, and did that put us in conflict with our commitments to give founders the best possible advice, and to never waste their time?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

What’s the best advice on productivity you’ve ever received? I’ve received great advice from many people over the years. Once your life shifts from pitching outbound to defending against inbound, however, you have to ruthlessly say “no” as your default. It’s the most adaptable.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 20, 2022

In fact, VC-based funding has boomed within the last decade, reaching a whopping $753B worth of investments since 2009. Must-Read: 5 Terms That are Killing Your Startup’s Pitch. Read on to find out more about the advantages and disadvantages of VC funding and some of the smartest places to invest it within the business.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

If your startup has a clear brand pitch, “an enticing offer” and “clear next steps,” you’re ready to reach out to influencers , he says. Last week, Kickstarter announced that people have backed more than 200,000 projects with $6 billion in pledges since the company launched in 2009.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) Take a densely packed forest, add a steep pitch, and throw in a couple feet of fresh snow, and I’m in heaven.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. Any advice on how you either kept your confidence through that time or recalibrated? Same thing.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) ( Note to reader: this week’s essay is a continuation of my piece from last week, “A Samurai, a Knight, and a Yankee”.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. They have advice to share. Ask them for advice. Most Venture Capital “A&# rounds (as of 2009) seem to start around $3 million pre-money and may go as high as $5-6 million pre-money if you’ve made a lot more progress or for some other reason the deal is “hot&#.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As we wrote last week , Lerman is not just another public company CEO: His company, Yext, has some old-fashioned history with TechCrunch, having pitched at one of our events back in 2009. (Make sure you’re signed up so you can jump right in.). It went well, with Yext quickly raising money afterward.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

But most of all, he will go out of his way to help newcomers (as well as veterans) of the Austin tech scene whenever they need help or advice or counsel,” Forrest said. “We In 2009, Whurley and Erwin met Ben Lamm at SXSW and they decided to launch Chaotic Moon, which focused on software, mobile development and design, the next year.

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