Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

It’s meant to be a bit provocative but the reality is that I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the the time and I usually leave the “e&# off of the end. I normally offer this advice in the capacity of really wanting to help entrepreneurs so please bear with me. It is 2010. This doesn’t suit anybody.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Even in 2010 I think most companies err too much on the side of complexity. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. My view – power users always look at all of the menu options to figure out how to juice up the system. You can always hide complexity into configuration screens rather than the out-of-the-box features.

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MARCH 17, 2010

’ &# His message was that in 2010 great business can be built anywhere if there is a great team and the will to make it work. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Launchpad LA SoCal Stuff Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I have one message for you, ‘get over it!’ And still much work to be done.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Yet the truth is that I see angels with great deal flow & great instincts whom I believe will only perform well in times that favor angel investors (like 2010) where there are early exits. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. I don’t believe these times will last. Part three will be published shortly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010. Doxo (November 2009 financing, just announced in May 2010 as company exited stealth mode). Tags: Start-up Advice. Paperless billing for consumers.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2016

Over the weekend, Rent the Runway held an event for its Project Entrepreneur initiative, which brought together over 100 female entrepreneurs looking to get education and advice on how to take their businesses to the next step. Not a single investor turned her down. What struck everyone in the round was the confidence that she exuded.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

In 2010 the City of Los Angeles started trying to crack down on tax receipts of Internet startups allocating them to the least favorable gross-receipts tax bracket taking up their city tax by 500%. Startup Advice' Consider the case of LegalZoom, one of our cities great startups. This is a citywide election where every vote counts.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I HATE LOSING. I hate it. It chaps my hide.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

So no prizes for guessing my New Year’s resolution for 2010. I plan to be 25 pounds lighter by December 31st, 2010. I prefer to write the December 2010 post about what a great year I had. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I’m normally too cool to write posts like this. Somehow this is more honest.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In 2010, Gastón participated in a social assistance trip to Peru; recognized the different social, political and economic needs of the area; and saw how his actions could affect the individuals in the community’s lives. His advice to YLAI Network members is to not be afraid of the challenge of entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. Tags: Startup Advice. I HATE LOSING. I hate it. I really, really, really hate it. It chaps my hide.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

It’s been incredibly rewarding to be able to offer relevant advice or a connection at the right time and to see when a founder builds on that key turning point and it leads to success. This is how Fred Wilson described me back in 2010. It hasn’t always been as rewarding as it could be, however.

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Venture Hacks

APRIL 17, 2019

Incentives make for bad investing advice. Valuations for pre-traction companies between 2005-2010 were $1-5M pre-money for the first non-friends-and-family round. These valuations moved to $4-6M pre-money after 2010, with some demo days in the $8-10M range. Incentives make for bad investing advice. Back $0B companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. I know in 2010 this doesn’t seem obvious to everybody but it’s my judgment. StockTwits) where you really want to know more about the person giving you advice. Or was it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I know that in late 2010 it’s not as popular to say this because we’re in the era of “super angels&# and feel good startups. If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. It’s hard to say.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. It doesn’t strike me as a “social network&# in the way we’ve come to define them. But its focus on solving a real-world problem makes it uniquely valuable to most other social graphs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

I’ve added it to my list of 2010 lessons learned as a VC and I’m a bit pissed off with myself for not fighting harder – especially because I was convinced I would make a better investor than the “brand name&# they had selected who was thousands of miles away. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

In frothy markets (like we’re seeing in August 2010) this happens more frequently. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice. I personally don’t believe this makes for a good long-term investment thesis but that’s not for me to decide. In down markets more deals are priced.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 3, 2013

I led seven investments in my time at First Round Capital, starting in January of 2010. You play smart, communicate with your team, take all the advice you can, and when you do all the little things you need to, you''ll come out ahead. Sure, you lose the out, but you increase your chances of winning over the long run.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I wonder what this company would look like in 2010 as an independent? Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. But to understand how super-angels and not just VCs get in on this act check out Aydin Senkut’s record. 60 deals, 16 already acquired (by Google, Twitter, eTrade, Intuit, Microsoft).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

And coming to the end of 2010 I feel a sense of reminiscence of some of the trends from a decade ago. My advice to entrepreneurs is to have a sense of purpose and stick to that regardless of what you’re reading in TechCrunch or Business Insider. I suspect when the wind calms down Bryce will be well positioned.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

So I immediately felt like I had a partner whom I could call for sensitive advice on topics where there aren’t many sources of input or mentorship. This was in 2010 — exactly the wrong time to be pulling out of venture. It’s the same reason I think many entrepreneurs like working with VCs who had formerly been entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

But I can tell you from first-hand experience it was a real issue in 2008-2009 and the psychology persisted into 2010-11. If you’re an entrepreneur and the markets continue to drop steadily over the next 30 days please ignore any advice that this doesn’t impact you – it does. Watch the market closely.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

On vacation I helped with a fund raising deck, I helped by taking recruiting calls, I gave advice to a CEO who was planning a fund-raising trip, I worked on a 409a valuation issue that cropped up at one company and I reviewed an M&A transaction at another. I wrote this in January 2010. I’ve talked about that publicly, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

This post has some basic advice on how to plan your raise before you hit the road. In 2010 I didn’t know a single thing about LPs (the people who invest in VC funds). When I started meeting LPs in 2010 I would walk my list around to my friends who were VCs and say, “I don’t want you to introduce me to 10 names on this list.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Defy Ventures runs business plan competitions and has people like us who attend and give business advice and feedback. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. You can go. You SHOULD go. Here is how. You can make excuses — many do.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second. Mobile First, Web Second (continued). If you’re in the minority that never read them – you should.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. There is every likelihood that Zennström’s Atomico would have joined Klarna’s cap table in 2010 if it weren’t for a single line of text published on the VC firm’s website, which read something like, “don’t contact us, we’ll contact you.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Both outfits look to back early-stage founders with money and advice in exchange for equity. That said, today’s debut from 500 Global is from its first and flagship program, hailing back from 2010 and, fittingly, including companies from all around the globe. based investors are sitting on $290 billion in dry powder right now.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Back in 2010, Ingrid had the vision to empower a billion women by 2020. Her mission is to make the journey easier especially for diverse and women entrepreneurs. Her ultimate goal is to see women and diverse leaders grow scale ventures by giving them access to the tools they need to succeed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

million first fund in 2010 to its $100 million fourth fund in 2017. Advice and analysis from Extra Crunch. Seed firm Eniac Ventures raises $125M for its fifth fund — The size of Eniac’s funds has grown dramatically over the past decade, from its $1.6

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2019

Some of the best advice I have recieved from So-Young is that, as leaders, we need to constantly empower our associates by allowing them room to grow, giving them tasks that they may not be able to do before, but at the same time, giving them the support and resources to ask for help and advice. Since then, we have become good friends.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

In terms of background and function, 17% of new Directors are Active (not retired) CEOs or presidents, as opposed to 26% in 2010. New Directors come increasingly more from financial backgrounds (27% in 2020 vs 21% in 2010) and functional roles (22% in 2020 vs 18% in 2010). I think that’s pretty standard with other positions. .:

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

I once had a potential LP back in 2010 (when fund-raising as a VC was harder for me) tell me that he thought he was a better fit to look at our next fund rather than this one. This is part of a series on fund-raising advice for entrepreneurs and VCs. But often if they don’t say ‘no’ you’ve just got yourself a commitment to re-engage.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

After co-founder and CEO Munjal Shah sold his previous company, Like.com, a shopping comparison site, to Google in 2010, he spent the better part of the next decade building Hippocratic. The dietary advice use case gave me pause, I must say, in light of the poor diet-related suggestions AI like OpenAI’s ChatGPT provides.

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