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?

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. Many term sheets ensued.

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Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

– Need venture capital. This article was originally written in May 2001, revised extensively in January 2011 and again October 2011. The valuation method described herein was also detailed in my book, the Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels (2006, available on Gust). Positive other factors.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

In 2003 I seriously thought about quitting Mobius Venture Capital. My whole world blew up in 2001. While 2003 – 2006 was an incredible grind, I look back on that time period as one that I am satisfied with as we did manage to get Mobius to a stable place. For the really major decisions, I try them on for 30 days.

San Francisco 108

San Francisco Internet Portfolio New York 108

Both Sides of the Table

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. 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company.

South Africa 310

South Africa Europe Disintermediation Poland 310

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We found a way to make our venture capital last when it shouldn’t have, at around the same time one of my all time favorite New Yorker cartoons was published on this topic.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

1) Self-Awareness & Humility - These are of course virtues that transcend venture capital or even professional pursuits broadly. A good example of this was Charles River Ventures experience with their 11th fund. And yes… great firms are self-confident too.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

I began my career at McKinsey and when the Internet bubble burst in 2001, I made a shift towards online software (ASP at the time). From then on, I remained convinced that SaaS was a much more efficient model, for both ISVs and customers — although many people remained skeptical on the viability of the model for a long time.

API 48

API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Opting to eschew the traditional road of venture capital funding, Tom worked both at GitHub and at a full time job, while Chris and PJ consulted on the side. Startup #8: Clicky. How’d they do it? Why bootstrap?

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Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0 We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. If I were at a startup… no wait. So let me get this straight.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107