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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0
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JUNE 22, 2011
But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). And well they should be. And so on down then line.
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OCTOBER 14, 2015
The truth is that the brutal reality of public markets is that they self correct much more quickly than our shitty little private equity illiquid corner of the universe. We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005.
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DECEMBER 20, 2009
Trilegiant Corporation , (who is owned by Avis Budget Group (yes, that Avis & Budget), in turn owned by the private equity group Apollo Management ) does business as PrivacyGuard and has engaged in the most unethical of business practices I have come across in years. Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005.
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APRIL 14, 2010
Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. It is 2010. That means that they likely raised money at a particularly high price relative to 2010 prices.
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MAY 15, 2010
But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA. We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market.
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
He’s been at it since 2005. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. We trade emails on the topic of entrepreneurship often. 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.
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