1999 Customer Demo Venture Capital 
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OCTOBER 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes.
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APRIL 13, 2011
Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. was starting.
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
These days there are many lawyers that will do equity deals cheaply as long is it is a standardized, simplified term sheet, early stage, no serious investor / management debates, limited IP / customers / due diligence and as long as they perceive you as a “hot&# company that’s likely to need legal services for many years ahead. (if
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. million … yes that was seed in 1999!) Mistakes we made?
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OCTOBER 15, 2009
This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. But some companies have entrepreneurs that seem talented on paper, are in a space that seems interesting to investors and are able to raise venture capital early in the company’s existence. This is what happened to me. True story.) I did the grunt work.
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JANUARY 16, 2012
I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising.
Austin Startup
MAY 3, 2017
The University of Texas at Austin’s Longhorn Startup Demo Day AND Texas Venture Labs are underway and given the incredible and increasing impact Texas is having on entrepreneurship and innovation, I thought we should talk about cattle. They can just go back to their investors for more capital. Imagine that. Sell the vision.
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