Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). Because it can be hard to define or agree company objectives at an early stage I believe most people avoid them. Nobody likes to raise money then look like a loser. In 6 months?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

But ultimately great people drive the ideas and Highland Capital is proactive in reaching out to entrepreneurs even at early stages. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. even selfish humans are more likely to act fairly when in public.” ( Burnham, 2003 , pp. Those early donors are simply personal connections of the project creator: “Friends and family funding plays a key role in the early stages of fundraising.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. And even for early stage startups, VCs raise eyebrows at companies that have modest gross margins. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. And even for early stage startups, VCs raise eyebrows at companies that have modest gross margins. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. All the peripheral services are profitable, but there was no place that aggregated everything under one roof. We can help them.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84