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34 Articles match "2006","Company","Startup"
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Monday, March 8, 2010
With your printed ticket, security at the entrance would let you past the rope and up the stairs you needed to wind your way back to the theater. Attire ranged from t-shirts and jeans to button-up shirts with coats, with a handful of some funkier attire. They have a different speaker each week, usually announced a couple weeks prior, starting about 30mins in and speaking for perhaps 45mins. Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm Going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
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Monday, March 1, 2010
He invested $8 million in a company in the computer networking space. They Presumably they are talented if they created a company worth $80 million. They’ll In 2006, Steven Dietz, a partner at my firm, GRP Partners, had given me $500,000 in a seed in convertible debt when I started my second company, Koral. GRP I was going to save this post for a while but the Patzer Problem meme has forced my hand.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Let me start with a story. When When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5 But we weren’t optimizing for dilution – we were building a $1 billion+ company and we wanted the runway to succeed. We A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” I I think the perfect saying to have as a reminder is “time is the enemy of all deals,” or as my wife is all too tired of hearing me say, “Don’t pop the
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons”
Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. Worth So many companies suck at managing their booths. If Worth a read on how to maximize the traffic that comes to you site since much of it will be fleeting.
Their post links to a great post by Jason Calacanis ( here ) on how to make the most of your booth experience at the show. So
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice ” but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.” If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. It’s Let me start with a couple of stories.
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It’s that simple. Only
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Monday, August 17, 2009
2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital. I But it was my second company so I had already learned all o f the lessons the hard way.
One very important item from Chris’s original post that wasn’t picked up by Fred or Brad is founder vesting. Chris I sum it up here (but read Chris’s link above)
This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “.
There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. The
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world.
Mine started this way …
TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. This This is a slightly longer version and also has an update at the end.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. This blog post ended up on Valleywag (which had much bigger presence back then).
My blog was wiped out. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Let me start with a story. When When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5 But we weren’t optimizing for dilution – we were building a $1 billion+ company and we wanted the runway to succeed. We A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” I I think the perfect saying to have as a reminder is “time is the enemy of all deals,” or as my wife is all too tired of hearing me say, “Don’t pop the
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. The The real irony of the market thaw is that the biggest symbol of the freeze as I mentioned in my last post is when Sequoia released its famous “RIP Good Times” PowerPoint deck alerting companies to dark days ahead and Ron Conway famously wrote emails to portfolio companies encouraging people to slash and save and prepare for the impending doom in the market. This 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. There
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Getting Your Internet Company Bought”. Shawn created the original concept for Demand Media and executed the simultaneous acquisitions of eNom, eHow and several domain-name portfolios which launched the company. Since co-founding the company with Richard Rosenblatt in May 2006, Shawn and his team have sourced, negotiated and completed over 30 acquisitions.
It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation revealing the metrics and measurements for Mergers and Acquisitions in the online space with one of the best experts in the field.
We are joined this month by Shawn Colo , the Co-Founder and Head of M&A at Demand Media .
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Jeff Fluhr and his friend from school got together and created a company called StubHub which they built up and sold to eBay. Jeff, here's what I noticed when I looked you up. But, you know, I think it wasn't until after my first real company StubHub that people, I think, thought of me in that light.
In 2000, people had all kinds of assumptions about buying and selling tickets to events. They assumed it was illegal or that they'd get ripped off or that it was a small-time business run by guys who stood outside of stadiums.
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Monday, September 22, 2008
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