David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

Likely signs of a Value investment: the company has challenges in filling out the round; the investors have more negotiating leverage than the founders during the closing process; the company has significantly better metrics (e.g. Today, some Momentum-centric venture capital investors have high paper returns.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. Venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz among others put $15 million into it. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending.

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Cofounder Venture Capital India Valuation 141

David Teten

JANUARY 7, 2015

Ray Dalio, Founder of Bridgewater Associates , the world’s largest hedge fund, is a man after my own heart. I created my blog way back in 2003 because of the scale it gives me (Principle #177, “Constantly think about how to produce leverage”). Photo credit: Prayitno . Cross-posted in Forbes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

In 2003 I seriously thought about quitting Mobius Venture Capital. In early 2003, I started to think about leaving Mobius. I woke up one morning in February 2003 and decided to spend a little time each day pretending like I had quit Mobius. In March 2003 I fully engaged in Mobius. Here’s an example.

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San Francisco Internet Portfolio New York 108

Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

In some cases, these rounds were with experienced founders who had previously had a success and could dictate terms. In this six month period, the need for an experienced founder vanished. For anyone that remembers 2000-2003, this obviously ended badly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

He suggested an idea that comes from the NFL called “ The Rooney Rule ” enacted in 2003 in an effort to end the era of all-white football coaches in a league with > 75% African American players. Upfront has consistently ranked in the top decile of investments to female founders and the top 20% of investment team diversity.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Founder.org founder Michael Baum. In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. Michael Baum : You remember what happened in 2003 in Silicon Valley, right? The Founder.org sister venture capital fund invested in seven of them.

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Founder Entrepreneur North America Startup 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Today, startup founders focus on the fundamental challenges of our time with energy, life sciences and industrial technologies dominating Houston’s tech scene. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

chief, came to the rescue in 2003 and helped turn the company around for the better. Google is one of the largest companies in the world and its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are some of the richest entrepreneurs to date. The organic grocer became an instant success and the founders’ hard work definitely paid off big.

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Bankruptcy Texas Naming Venture Capital 195

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

My own fascination with podcasts began with a warm recommendation from Pablo (founder of Antidote ). One of them is Alex Blumberg, founder of Gimlet Media. Reid Hoffman delivers Silicon Valley gospel with an impressive roster of guests, but doesn’t take himself too seriously while sharing important information for founders.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. spray-and-pray? startupcto

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. I've been in venture now twice. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. How do you develop power within a venture capital firm? What's the message?

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Can you become a founder by watching videos? Perhaps, but founders are closer to artists than any other profession. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem. How can corporations work more closely with universities?

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

It seems appropriate to have this discussion as Kent Desormeaux grabs Big Browns reins and goes after the Triple Crown tomorrow at Belmont.There is an age old debate in the venture business on whether it is better to bet on the horse (business/market) or the jockey (management team/founders). Do whatever you want with the founders".

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San Jose Technical Review Norway Angel Investor 28

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: So, you raised venture capital? Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. On the phone ….

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Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet Stock 153

Cracking the Code

APRIL 27, 2018

What a journey it has been since the genesis of the company in 2003, when it’s visionary team set out to automate the agreement process and solve many pain points from speed to cost and accuracy. Congratulations to the past and present DocuSign team for their incredible achievements, as the company makes its public market debut.

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Seattle Global Cofounder Security 48

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We also spent a fair bit of time talking about the changing nature of venture capital and in particular the hand-on practitioner role of early-stage VC led by accelerators such as YC, 500Startups, Betaworks and the like. Nate, tell us a bit about Rustic Canyon Venture Partners. My guest today is Nate Redmond.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

My own fascination with podcasts began with a warm recommendation from Pablo (founder of Antidote ). One of them is Alex Blumberg, founder of Gimlet Media. Mogul, the life and death of Chris Lighty, starts at the funeral of this hip hop producer and founder of the label Violator. itunes.apple.com. itunes.apple.com.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

These notions of an independent ethos don’t map that well to what we know about venture capital, which is a very staged and formulaic way of building a company. As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. Because venture does provide a lot of good things to a bunch of really great companies.

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Venture Capital Valuation Los Angeles Chicago 40

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. And venture capital and entrepreneurship has made life even tougher for the modern corporation.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

For more page-turning corporate drama, including the feud between Intermix co-founders and UCLA college buddies Brett Brewer and Brad Greenspan, Nasdaq delisting, proxy contest and lawsuits by Greenspan after he was fired as CEO, see Stealing MySpace by WSJ reporter Julia Angwin. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc., of MySpace, Inc.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future. Nic Perkin is the President and Co-Founder of The Receivables Exchange. Since 2003, Rumson has helped clients invest over $1.0

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

Also notable: 20% of the startups participating this time around have female founders (LaunchBit, Snapette, Vayable, Cardinal Blue and Culture Kitchen) and three of those teams (LaunchBit, Snapette, and Culture Kitchen) are 100% female. startupcto

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Programming Silicon Valley Ireland Startup 45

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. He began as part of Salt Lake Citys Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures ), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001. startupcto

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Silicon Valley Semantic Social Network Cofounder 46

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

It was June of 2003. I like what Chris Sacca tweeted about it: "I admire how easy fundraising is for founders today. I sat in a little ink shop on Rivington Street called Porcupine Tattoo. Emma was tracing the design I had given her--some wrap around barbed wire--onto my arm with a pen. She had flower sleeves of spectacular color.

Silicon Valley 115

Silicon Valley Flash Dilution Portfolio 115

Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Startups and founders need to come to terms with the stark reality that the rules of the game may be changed mid-play. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry.

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IPO Prospectus SEC Intellectual Property 110

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. So why would raising venture capital be any different. Always be fund raising.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Altgate

DECEMBER 11, 2008

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Great Startup Event In Boston A Squeeze On Boston Venture Valuations → White Collar Crime Spree Posted on December 11, 2008 by fnazeeri What is going on with the rash of “white collar&# crime?

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

In 2003 Electronic Arts actually moved their headquarters from Silicon Valley to Playa Vista, an crazy move at the time, and accelerated their growth as a result. Venture Capital from Northern and Southern Cal is flowing into the L.A.

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California Southern California San Francisco Silicon Valley 20

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Photo by emsago See Also Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation Strategy Roundtable: Investors Dont Fund Broad Ideas Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO Tweet (..)

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Photo by emsago See Also Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation Strategy Roundtable: Investors Dont Fund Broad Ideas Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO Tweet (..)

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# This is an interview you’re not going to want to miss, I promise.

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Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This was reported as being untrue by British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) about a year ago. This is a representation of 2003 – 2013. There are opportunities to get a feel for running a team, validating an idea, choosing co-founders. It scares them to try.

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Europe South Korea San Francisco Portugal 163

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There are some obvious structural reasons why a shakeout in the venture capital industry takes a long time. There was a healthy amount of capital ($20-30B annually) invested in VC funds during the 2003-2008 timeframe. 2) Rebirth of Some Firms - Mobius Venture Capital is now defunct.

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LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. If you are a founder who is excited about starting a new marketplace, there are two caveats that are important to remember. Reduces forfeiture by enhancing utilization (mortgages, car loans, etc) (Uber, AirBnb, Rover, Hipcamp).

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88