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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. MK : Initial investments are typically around $400,000 to $500,000, typically part of a Pre-Seed round of financing. We want founders to do their homework, and self-select whether or not K9 would be a good match for them.

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Public Service Announcement For Entrepreneurs: Ignore the Dow

Feld Thoughts

Today is Finance Friday and post #2 has been drafted by the Finance Friday team from University of Chicago Booth and is waiting for my edits. In 1999, 2000, and 2001 I had a my.yahoo.com page up with a bunch of stocks, including a number of companies I was an investor in, as my home page. It’s just sport.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

I wont bother going into details on start-up financing terms ( see this post for an overview of typical VC terms) except to say if you dont know and understand: the firms cap table and valuation. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Clean Energy.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

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. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. The mantra was as follows: “no one is coming to save us, we are going to make it on our own&#.

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The 3 Most Damaging Myths in Entrepreneurship

Up and Running

That’s what we teach in business schools and classic entrepreneurship: you develop a business plan, you get financed, and then you start. I think there’s a startup sweet spot, for most startups, in which the resources available match the opportunity. One thing they buy with their money is their voice.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. ” This was around 2001. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. — Wayne set his sights on entrepreneurship when he was a teen, working in the tobacco fields of North Carolina: I remember working in the tobacco field one morning.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.