Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. 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. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

According to a study by CB Insights (2017), a software that gathers essential data from investors, companies and industries, more than 70% of startups do not exceed the first stage of venture capital investment. Why do so many companies fail?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Computer Software. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail.

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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 these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Business of Software. Software Development. 2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. Many venture-capital-funded companies work this way. About Eric. twitter.com/eric_sink.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Michael Baum ( @michaelbaum ), whom I first met at LinuxWorld at in 2004, has a charismatic personality and an extraordinary track record, largely unheralded. For example, you were one of the first enterprise software freemium models. The Founder.org sister venture capital fund invested in seven of them.

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Altgate

JANUARY 28, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Randy Komisar on Failure Serial Inventor Woody Norris Talks Innovation at TED → What is the World’s Largest Fraud? Posted on January 28, 2009 by fnazeeri Hint: it’s not Bernie Madoff.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

Fitness/life guru Tim Ferriss just posted my guest article on ff Venture Capital ‘s approach to building a fitness office. UPDATE: ff Venture Capital was recently profiled in The Roger, an online magazine that profiles creative workspaces. According to a 2003-2004 U.S. Thanks Tim!) We recommend fl.ux

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. Until 2004, when the U.S. Takeaway : The positive impact of market share compounds—especially for software adoption. It’s one that many venture capital–funded startups deploy. Software adoption.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. Coninsurance plans require the patient to pay a percentage (usually 10-30%) of the healthcare costs up to the deductible limit.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 20, 2004

We did our own analysis of venture-backed software IPOs a couple of years ago (based on SEC filings, etc.) This week’s Plugged In column from Barrons has some great data on M&A in 2004 and how many of the companies that went public or were acquired were the very ones left for dead over the past few years.

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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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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. He was a fellow Harvard computer science graduate and I was looking for a summer job in software development and found him through an alumni directory.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. The secret to the software sales process. Evaluating the M&A landscape: other companies being purchased and what big companies were making acquisition decisions. Judged his instincts, and felt it was Quigo’s time. At the time, Quigo was already starting to do well.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Jason Cohen of Smart Bear Software does a nice job articulating this issue stating : The fact that you are learning only from success is a deeper problem than you imagine…drawing conclusions only from data that is available or convenient and thus systematically biasing your results. However, this survivorship bias is problematic.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Both hardware (such as sensors that interact with the environment to collect data) and software (the algorithms that are able to intelligently interact with humans or other machines) have become more sophisticated. We’ve been using simplistic robots for years, often without knowing it.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Soho OS offers a suite of freemium software packages such as Quicken for accounting, Yahoo’s Zoho for word processing and MS-office like tools and SalesForce’ s CRM. The round will include participation from existing investors including Benchmark Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, and Cisco Systems.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Both hardware (such as sensors that interact with the environment to collect data) and software (the algorithms that are able to intelligently interact with humans or other machines) have become more sophisticated. We’ve been using simplistic robots for years, often without knowing it.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Israel’s Koor Industries, an investment company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets, will retain 40% of the maker of fungicides, pesticides and herbicides. Koor is controlled by Discount Investment Corp, a subsidiary of IDB Holding Corp.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious. Sjoerd Franken.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Our ventures, in turn, have raised over $2 million in external funding.”. Takwin is a venture capital fund and incubator, making early-stage investments in hi-tech companies run by Arab entrepreneurs in Israel. Galil Software – big software company hiring people from all sectors, with focus on Arab engineers in Israel.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

A string quartet played a medley of pop radio hits as several hundreds startup founders, Goldman Sachs bankers, and venture capital investors, chatted over drinks inside a gleaming neon temple of Angel Orensanz in lower Manhattan. Check out this article from CNN back in August 2004 and the GOOG IPO troubles. Apps & Software.

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

According to Fenwick & West’s latest Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey , fundings in the second quarter of this year showed the highest valuation increases in more than five years. Still, it is the highest amount increase since Fenwick began compiling the numbers in 2004. ATDveecees (Venture Capital).

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Last December when one techie interviewed by an SFGate reporter equated the word with a racial slur, a popular industry blog suggested it be replaced with the term “Software American.”). “Do The “dot-commers” of the nineties have become the “techies” of the twenty-teens, but apparently the label doesn’t sit well with everyone.

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