Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2021

Central to the allure of a part-time gig is the understanding that if it doesn’t work out – it isn’t as profitable as you hoped it’d be or it isn’t as rewarding as you’d first thought – you have the freedom to abandon it without fear of your finances being seriously hurt. It’s a steep bar for entry but a necessary one.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. What Has Changed in Financing? even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed. We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. dot-com bonanza.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

million and we seemed likely to raise another $40 million within the first 18 months of operations. We went “nuclear&# and slimmed down to 33 people (yes, I know, still large by today’s standards but this was 2001), raised $10 million and we built a real company. Our first big institutional round of VC was $16.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Or worse yet they may never get financed. Raise at “ the top end of normal &# but not so high that future financings in a corrected market become impossible. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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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. They are operators, through and through.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

In 2001, I moved from Citibank to become the CMO of Morgan Stanley’s brokerage business, where I was tasked with modernizing and reviving the brokerage business there. Can you talk about how you went from finance marketing to the kinds of innovation projects GE started taking on eventually, which was when we first got acquainted?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading. The mantra was as follows: “no one is coming to save us, we are going to make it on our own&#. Warning sign? At best. ~

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