Both Sides of the Table

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. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. Entrepreneurs in LA spend a lot of time commuting up to the Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. This made me think hard about the relationship between VCs and entrepreneurs.

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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. The list goes on.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

I’d like to offer you two “life hacks&# that I implemented in 2009 and one that I’m test driving in 2010. I personally believe that in the interconnected, “always on&# world that is 2010 people emphasize communicating too frequently versus respecting the productivity of others. That’s my 2010 hack.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I like to invest where I have a personally strong connection with the entrepreneur and/or a strong intuition on the market from prior experience. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here.

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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.

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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 believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it. I HATE LOSING. I hate it. I lose sleep.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We are just recognizing that women entrepreneurs have to fight harder and longer to be as successful as their male counterparts. One Woman Entrepreneur Having an Impact. Her mission is to make the journey easier especially for diverse and women entrepreneurs. And this was before COVID-19 hit the world by storm. Sign Me Up!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. It’s always such a pleasure for me to spend time with Farb because he has all of the enthusiasm and energy you love to see in entrepreneurs. Tags: Start-up Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

I’ve written about the topic of convertible debt at length before specifically about how angels & entrepreneurs should think about pricing. Clearly this is is a trend and a topic that is interesting entrepreneurs. In fact, in some ways can be worse for the entrepreneur. a priced/valued preferred stock financing)?

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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 believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it. Tags: Startup Advice. I HATE LOSING.

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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. Almost any entrepreneur will be smarter than them in their market.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). For most entrepreneurs it will be the first time and also will have such a profound impact on their future financial situation that it’s hard to objectively handle the exit process in the way a seasoned pro can.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). And if I were an entrepreneur I’d rather find investors who understood “my space&# so that in tough times they felt comfortable about “doubling down.&#. Not everybody agreed.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2019

The transition from one year to another seems like a perfect time to say thank you to these 10 women entrepreneurs whom I have had the pleasure of meeting and learning from. I have met so many inspirational women entrepreneurs in the past year, and this was a difficult list to make! Kendra Scott : Designer, CEO and Philanthropist.

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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. It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. A bit laughable in 2010, just 12 years later.

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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. I’m certain that if you look at every single one of the entrepreneurs who’ve gone on to build big, enduring businesses they were unfundable once too.&#. Bryce is a bit like the entrepreneurs I search for. I love that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

How do you have time for all your entrepreneurs? 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. How do you stay balanced?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

The impact hits VCs in an immediate way that most entrepreneurs don’t realize. But I can tell you from first-hand experience it was a real issue in 2008-2009 and the psychology persisted into 2010-11. For anybody whose only been an entrepreneur (or VC) since 2009 it would be easy to think we’re not correlated.

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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. As an investor I can tell you that when I meet an entrepreneur who knows very little about our fund or me as an individual it’s a huge turn off. In 2010 I didn’t know a single thing about LPs (the people who invest in VC funds).

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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 get in a line with executives on one side and EITs (entrepreneurs in training) on the other. You can go.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2012

It all started in 2010 with Klout. I wasn’t a believer. I had always liked and respected CEO Joe Fernandez but could never get my head around the fact that the Klout was putting up charts showing who influenced me and it didn’t map to the reality I knew in my head.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 29, 2019

Researchers have been trying for decades to establish the most common character traits of entrepreneurs. It has even been noted that there are more differences between the traits of different entrepreneurs than between those of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs (Gartner, 1985). Kolb & Wagner, 2015).The

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Every entrepreneur wants to hear “yes” during the fund-raising process but I would argue that being too risk averse and not pushing hard enough and be willing to hear a “no” is what holds back many people from “yes.” Possibly offend and entrepreneur leading to reputation risk amongst other entrepreneurs.

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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. I don’t yet feel strongly enough about tablets to encourage entrepreneurs with whom I work to put too many resources against with few exceptions. The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second. Mobile First, Web Second (continued).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Against everyone’s advice, I decided to seek out a business partner. ME/ “When we started out in 2010, we were the definition of bootstrapping entrepreneurs. A lot of people think that all you need is an idea and capital to make it as an entrepreneur, but it’s so much more than that.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . In terms of background and function, 17% of new Directors are Active (not retired) CEOs or presidents, as opposed to 26% in 2010. Further Reading.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

In fact, I lost more than $15 million dollars in 2010 in the demise of my manufacturing business because I was vulnerable to my partners and bankers. If an entrepreneur doesn’t have the money to move a business forward, the answer is easy: He needs a partner with money. By Mike Whitaker, author of The Decision Makeover.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. Kauffman Foundation: Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs: Removing Barriers. Social Impact.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 18, 2022

Since 2010, I’ve worked as a media relations troubleshooter for some of the world’s leading organizations (NHS, HERE Technologies, Virgin). Many entrepreneurs don’t have the resources or skills to ‘cut through the noise.’ I’ve both reported on and landed big stories.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Founders from outside a tech-ecosystem are surrounded by bad advice, since building a startup is different from other kinds of businesses. 1) Don’t hoard your idea, share it freely The 2010 drama, the Social Network , depicted every entrepreneur’s worst fears. I found that the opposite is true. Let’s dive in. (1)

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

Let me assume for this discussion it’s a garden variety 2010 IT or Internet business (as opposed to something requiring capital equipment or a life sciences project). I’ve seen too many entrepreneurs try to do things on the cheap. It’s a tricky question with no clear answer. There are trade offs.

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