YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The tortoise and the hare is a great bedtime story, but also proffers some advice to every young business owner and entrepreneur alike. The CEO of Blockbuster, John Antioco, said in 2000, “Redbox and Netflix aren’t even on the radar.”. A young entrepreneur often doesn’t realize the access to capital in which they have.

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Entrepreneur Oregon Early Stage Texas 203

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

And even if they wanted the index return, there is essentially no way to buy (or sell) a broad-based basket of VC funds in the way you can trade the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 or other public equity index. LPs investing in venture hold a subset of all the funds in the VC universe by design (see #4 & 5).

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LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Portfolio 176

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley Technical Review IPO Venture Capital 217

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. on the entrepreneur side of the table) when I raised at too high of a price. This is wrong.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The Golden Age for Entrepreneurs and VC’s. The two decades from 1979 when pension funds fueled the expansion of venture capital to 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst were the Golden Age for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms. During the decade between 1991 and 2000, nearly 2000 venture backed companies went public.

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Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 297

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

And these ideas have ways of seeping into board discussions with portfolio companies as in, “have you ever thought about trying A, B or C?&# I actually like finding entrepreneurs who are more circumspect, less braggadocios and generally more planned about their actions. I know because I did this in early 2000.

Early Stage 380

Early Stage Stealth Marketing Startup 380

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 16, 2014

7 Magic Words (And 10 Negotiation Ideas) For Entrepreneurs | Forbes by Cheryl Snapp – crowdspring.co/1uUleyG. The 7 Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs | Entrepreneur – crowdspring.co/QIOBDJ. The 7 Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs | Entrepreneur – crowdspring.co/QIOBDJ. – crowdspring.co/1iGeQlb.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Angel investors are generally former entrepreneurs and/or executives, who invest in privately-held, early-stage companies. To succeed in the space, angels must have a high risk tolerance, a large bank account to weather losses, and most important, a diverse enough portfolio to handle losing money on most of your investments.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Brian Cohen , chairman of the New York Angels, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios. Brian Cohen entrepreneurs funding Ron Conway startups super angels'

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Angel Investor Silicon Valley Startup Portfolio 260

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. I like the guy because he’s credited with coining the word entrepreneur. Thank you for the kind introduction. I’d like to start with a request. Now look around.

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Private Equity Metrics China Business Model 325

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

Angel Investor 241

Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 241

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Fred Wilson has been a venture investor and director in Return Path since 2000, first with Flatiron Partners and then with Union Square Ventures. Look for VC portfolios that have a lot of “like” companies (B2B, B2C, media, tech, etc.). Selecting Your Investors. We’ve been through a lot of wars together.

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Valuation Term Sheet B2C Security 133

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Babak Nivi is one of the most understated, helpful & important people on the entrepreneur / startup scene in NorCal. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels. But it +is+ an anti-entrepreneur stance.&#

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Southern California Angel Investor Early Stage Silicon Valley 267

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Other businesses are pushing mainstream Lightning adoption for shopping.

Networking 168

Networking Global OTC Security 168

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. angels entrepreneur funding groups startup' This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. Keiretsu Forum.

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North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor Angel Investor 289

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

Angel Investor 167

Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 167

Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

Existing venture capitalists with whom we had worked with had important industry relationships, but we found them to be lacking in the following ways: Siloed – As an entrepreneur, you can often count on the General Partner on your board to introduce you to customers or executives, but you can’t count on the venture capital firm itself.

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Venture Capital Portfolio Cofounder Networking 78

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. Rise of Y Combinator, 1st Branded Entrepreneur Guild. and no, we didn’t.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally).

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Angel Investor North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor 270

The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

From around 2000, and perhaps coinciding with the need to work harder to win deals as opportunities dried up after the internet bubble burst, individual partners at VC firms began adding ‘helping CEOs win’ to their job descriptions. . Building platforms. They called them ‘Platform Teams’ and the value they add varies between funds.

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Portfolio LP Venture Capital Partner 84

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

First, I would say that most entrepreneurs do almost no reference checks or at least do them very informally. For some reason most entrepreneurs do. I always tell entrepreneurs, “in good times of course everybody loves their VC. Make sure to call the companies in that VCs portfolio that didn’t succeed.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Cofounder Partner 288

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

Mark pointed out that on the one hand 6 months ago one of Silicon Valley’s best known ibankers told him that SaaS public valuations were the most over-valued since the dot com bubble in 2000. While this is temporarily a good thing for entrepreneurs it will turn sour when we go through the next inevitable downturn. And we ended.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Later Stage Non-Compete 309

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. That was up 29% over 2000 in just five years. It just doesn’t fit.

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Venture Capital San Francisco Deal Flow Atlanta 127

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

This was the year 2000 and the idea was that Metapa would allow any company to send any media asset over any content delivery network and our service would automatically transform the asset for viewing anywhere. Success can be attained in a big way under that scenario so don't quit.

Portfolio 109

Portfolio Open Source Architecture Database 109

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2011

Look more modern than our previous website, which had a very 2000 feel to it. Become a resource for entrepreneurs to have access to the lawyers, accountants, real-estate professionals and other people with whom our entrepreneurs work. We didn’t want this section to be our recommendations but those of our portfolio.

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Early Stage Lead Investor Portfolio Partner 260

BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

This was the year 2000 and the idea was that Metapa would allow any company to send any media asset over any content delivery network and our service would automatically transform the asset for viewing anywhere. Success can be attained in a big way under that scenario so don't quit.

Portfolio 109

Portfolio Architecture Open Source Database 109

Mucker Lab

MARCH 8, 2016

In reality, we are scrappy founders, just like the entrepreneurs we serve. Just as entrepreneurs should aspire to raise capital from value-added, “smart money” investors, we, too, have focused on partnering with committed, long-term, institutional limited partners (LPs). Mucker III is for those quiet but indomitable entrepreneurs.

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Burn Rate Limited Partner Bootstrapping Portfolio 60

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Today one of our portfolio companies BigDoor announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based OneTrueFan , a community and web check-in company. When there is a great fit, I love seeing our portfolio companies make acquisitions. Todd and Eric have been friends of mine for a long time.

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San Francisco Acquisition Cofounder IPO 115

Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Gaurav Dhillon was one of the great enterprise entrepreneurs of the ‘90s and early 2000s. Ordinarily, we would automatically disqualify an entrepreneur with such a massive financial success from funding, so when he came into pitch us on his new company SnapLogic I was skeptical. Informatica is currently worth over $4B.

Technical Review 77

Technical Review Memphis Software Review Software 77

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Funding Problem.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. ” So, while Apple, Costco, and FedEx benefited, the PR would be more credible if the SBIC was trumpeting iconic companies created after 1990 or even 2000, especially where the lead investors (rather than follow on investors) had SBIC capital.

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SBIC Venture Capital Colorado SBA 142

Feld Thoughts

MAY 16, 2013

As I’m coming out of my depression, I’ve been reflecting on the hundreds of emails I’ve gotten from entrepreneurs, investors, friends, and people I don’t know talking about their own struggles with depression. I used to joke that ASPs (remember that term) were the mom and pop businesses of the late 90’s early 2000’s.

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Lean Stock Portfolio Email 146

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. That was up 29% over 2000 in just five years. It just doesn’t fit.

Venture Capital 66

Venture Capital Deal Flow Atlanta Incubator 66

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. Second, a portfolio of investments, even in angel investing, is a great approach. So which is it? It is risky.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152