Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. You technically have more gas left but you never know if some unexpected circumstance causes you to run out of gas.

Burn Rate 383

Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net Valuation 383

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Juniper Networks Inc acquired Altor Networks, a company specializing in security for virtualization technology. Altor Networks was founded in 2007 by security and networking experts from Israel’s Internet security giant Check Point. The technology was developed in collaboration with Bar-Ilan University.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Technical Review Balance Sheet Government 298

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The median VC reviews 87 opportunities before making 1 investment. Detailed due diligence. I’ve shown below a case study of the geographic diversification of the largest late-stage technology venture capital / growth equity investors. Deal origination is a slow, labor-intensive, frustrating process. Target Selected.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals.

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

The founding of M-Pesa in 2007 inspired many young people to undertake entrepreneurial risks. Sam Gichuru is a lynchpin in Nairobi’s startup community due to his leadership of nailab, a major incubator and accelerator. He has extensive experience working in Kenya’s tech industry, having founded Wananchi Online in 1999.

Kenya 45

Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. What does a thoughtful campaign look like?

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. source: First Round Review’s Kawasaki on Why Your Startup is Dead if You Can’t Enchant ) Do you know the story of OneSpot? It started in 2007 here in Austin and was founded by my friend Matt Cohen. We started Coremetrics in 1999 selling to dot-coms.

B2C 51

B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. year old boy and another one due in 1 months. By then I was still on the board of my first company but it hadn’t yet sold (it ended up selling in 2007 to a publicly traded French company).

Founder 329

Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

First, the body of collaborative work on corporate governance best practices that I have developed since 1999 with other venture capitalists and professional service providers to the venture industry; and, second, the direct collaboration on venture capital that resulted from meeting Professor Mannie Manhong Liu in the summer of 2007 at the Symposium (..)

Venture Capital 44

Venture Capital China Technical Review Due Diligence 44

dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Its great that were in such a fertile phase for the tech industry that lots of people have new ideas, and Im very flattered that people value my input or ideas enough to want to share their projects with me. I have to pay a lawyer to review a document without having any idea why Im making that investment. But signing an NDA ?

NDA 52

NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52