Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Called Tim Spicer (c-companies partner) and he told him matt, they only want one thing, more warrant coverage!!! Raised money from Splitrock Partners (of whom Matt thinks very highly) experience was so emotionally traumatic he came out of it vowing he’d never go thru that again – get cash flow positive RIGHT NOW!!! [if

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2015

By the time I co-founded what became Mobius Venture Capital, Softbank (our sponsor – at the time we were called Softbank Venture Capital) was the key investor in Yahoo, E*trade, and a number of other large US-based Internet companies. That we were building an ecosystem. And very, very little got done.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Cellcom partnered with Citi Bank to offer its customers a mobile payments solution and money transferring, to be launched by the end of 2010. Amos Shapira, Cellcom’s CEO in the official press release : “ The mobile phone is the world’s most common computerized retail point of sale. The company was founded in 2007.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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VC Cafe

MAY 22, 2011

Below are three recent founding rounds in Israeli venture-backed companies. 1) Onavo Mobile raised $3 million in its first round led by Sequoia Capital and Magma Venture Partners. The proceeds of this round will be be dedicated to expand the product line and increase marketing and sales.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. E-commerce has grown from $71 billion in sales 10 years ago to $4.5 Bradford Cross, a partner at Data Collective, just published a great blog post on this, along with other machine learning predictions for 2017. What used to take hours of walking can happen in minutes instead.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2009

GoToMarket Strategy – how will you grow quickly and in a capital efficient manner?    How will you sell your product – online, direct, or indirect sales?    any potential partners signed or game changing partners that will help you deliver?    (1 slide).

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. E-commerce has grown from $71 billion in sales 10 years ago to $4.5 Bradford Cross, a partner at Data Collective, just published a great blog post on this, along with other machine learning predictions for 2017. What used to take hours of walking can happen in minutes instead.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

After rejuvenating from the exhausting sale of Quigo, Mike started a ‘boring site’ called Tracked.com that he thought would be a better version of Yahoo! The Union Square Ventures partners started whispering in his ear that “it’s all about social now”. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 29, 2015

In addition to my venture capital and teaching activities, I co-chair the board of trustees at Facing History and Ourselves , an educational non-profit that trains educators how to teach pivotal moments in history (e.g., Tim Cook and Aron Ain run large companies with billions in sales, thousands of employees and high profiles.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. I once ran a startup company partnered with a US company. You use marketing and sales language, when attempting to make technical points. March 25, 2011 at 7:16 pm. The Foolish.

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