thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

As an entrepreneur at heart, I often innately grasp the potential of entrepreneurs and ideas that I meet with. These days, I am seeing a large number of first time entrepreneurs with great ideas, which is fantastic to see. There is inherent risk taking when you haven’t done it before, which often leads to true innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn. Incubators, on the other hand, are focused on building the entrepreneurship foundation of first-time entrepreneurs. It lasts longer than an accelerator, usually 6 months to a year.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2011

Vijay Anand is an entrepreneurially-minded professional with more than 13 years of hands-on experience as an entrepreneur , an advisor, and a columnist at Entrepreneur magazine. I came back to India , in 2004. It’s a dramatic shift from how things were in 2004. How are entrepreneurs in India like?

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. Rise of Y Combinator, 1st Branded Entrepreneur Guild. and no, we didn’t. but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

Vancouver executive Christopher Kape is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who founded JAMCO Capital Partners , an early-stage investment and strategic advisory firm that focuses on a number of industries, including gaming, high-tech, food and wellness. Why do you think philanthropic work is important as an entrepreneur?

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

. × At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their pitch decks.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

With that in mind, let’s look at an illustration of these trends below, which demonstrates what’s been happening to early-stage financing rounds over the last 15 years or so. Series A investors invested quite early, often before product/market fit.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

To help you steer clear of the myths that abound, below are some of the misconceptions when entrepreneurs build their brands. Even in the early stages of business ownership, reconsider trying to tackle every aspect of starting and running the company yourself. It’s easy to build a brand online.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Yet their commonality lies in their acceptance of early stage investment risks and their passionate drive to help startups succeed. But what that means in reality is I love helping awesome entrepreneurs find solutions to tough problems, create jobs that support families, and build their communities. Rumi Morales.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

But the early customers all compared it to MySpace. This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Bring your questions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

One of the most difficult things to do as a first time entrepreneur is to get to know the investors you might be working with if you accept money. He got into the industry through the same traits required for entrepreneurs – persistence & resiliency. This lasted from about 2001-2004. So how did Mike get into VC?

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn. Incubators, on the other hand, are focused on building the entrepreneurship foundation of first-time entrepreneurs. It lasts longer than an accelerator, usually 6 months to a year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

Like any motivated entrepreneur, I started a company (in this case, an investment platform), to fill the gaps – which I also believed FPV was uniquely capable of filling. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. Below is a recap.

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Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2017

See Also: 5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Traveling the World. When you’re building a startup or working at an early stage one, things are constantly shifting in unpredictable ways. Finding out just how little I knew. I remember landing in Santiago, Chile on my first ever trip out of the U.S.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Like any motivated entrepreneur, I started a company (in this case, an investment platform), to fill the gaps – which I also believed FPV was uniquely capable of filling. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. Below is a recap.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

And they want to be seen displaying compassion because they want to be loved themselves.” ( West, 2004 ). 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. How can you apply that principle?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Israeli startups deliver #NoMatterWhat I’ve started VC Cafe in December of 2004. Now, 150 days after October 7th, the Israeli startup ecosystem is once again in a tough spot.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 15, 2013

At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their financing decks.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

If you are entrepreneur planning your next business, you can’t afford to ignore the cost of customer acquisition. In fact, companies can automate this into a near-real-time process, so they can get an instant-read as to whether the new customer might deserve VIP-level treatment at a very early stage of the relationship.”.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. What’s the impact for early-stage startups?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 29, 2013

The discussion focused on companies that have hit product-market fit and are growing fast—a topic for advanced entrepreneurs. But the information was critical for any early-stage company that hopes to reach that critical point and wants to be prepared when it comes.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side. I believe this is wrong.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I liked the flattering Venture Hacks commentary so much Ill just quote it: Many founders believe that early stage startups are endeavors of execution. He believes that many early stage startups are labors of learning. What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. Before the $52M Series D , the $23M Series C , the $15.5M

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

In the first of a three part series on early stage business investment, we asked serial entrepreneur and investor Josh Comrie what three key things New Zealand entrepreneurs must get better at when it comes to seeking angel investment. So, I went deep (currently sitting at 26 different early-stage ventures).

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2009

– too often I see pitches where the entrepreneurs dive right into the product and I scratch my head thinking why in the world we need another lifestreaming service or social network or ad network (1 – 2 slides).   Take a look at this post from April 2004 titled What Aisle, What Shelf. What's the problem?

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Ressi estimates that the debt note now accounts for over 50% of all angel and early stage deals. Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. Company: Founder Institute. Website: fi.co.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Amelia spurs growth and development by providing capital, professional support and mentoring to entrepreneurs and joint ventures that further regional collaboration and economic opportunity. Located throughout the Middle East, Amelia-supported initiatives are diversified by geography, industry sector and stage. Siraj Capital.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Whatever your companys "fatal flaw" may be, you can likely avoid it in your own venture if you take some advice from people whove gone through the early startup phase before. Guarding The "Big Idea".

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