Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I know it’s not single-handed as he has both fantastic partners at Foundry Group and many other community leaders. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

My partners at Greylock and I have invested in a number of young founding CEOs who match this pattern and are doing a fantastic job leading their companies through hypergrowth, such as Brian Chesky of AirBnB and Drew Houston of Dropbox. James Slavet, a partner at Greylock, introduced me to Jeff Weiner.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There are two reasons to raise money: You have a killer idea that is only partially validated, that you think can get to $50M+ of revenue in 5 years with 80%+ gross margins (if margins are lower, you need a lot more revenue)and you need money to get to product-market fit, or. Not all startups need outside investment to grow.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 22, 2008

An interesting nugget from Fred’s post : Eric Archambeau of Wellington Partners was on the panel and he described some research work he and some associates did a while back. You know how when you’re benchmarking public equities the data sets always leave out performance from the 1929 crash and most of the following decade?

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

What that meant is that six companies a year could achieve a hundred million in revenue or a billion in valuation. Back in 2005 we started a venture firm called OATV, O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, myself, my partner Tim O’Reilly, and my partner Mark Jacobson. I think that’s dangerous. So we have.

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Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

I say ecosystem as opposed to industry because it is not just the VC funds themselves that are imploding, instead the collapse includes entrepreneurs and startups that were funded by VCs, angel investors, service providers like lawyers, bankers and accountants as well as limited partner investors in VC funds. trillion as late as last month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

of startup businesses as far back as 2005. How can you beat finding someone who has been there and done that, able to mentor Gen-Y, has lots of connections to people in your industry, and is often willing to work for equity alone? They have the maturity and sophistication to deal with your demanding executives and partners.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Go ahead and laugh, but over 95% of Moon River Software’s revenue this year has been from consulting services. The software I sell has made up less than 5% of total revenue in the past 12 months. Myth #3: I need a partner. Let’s turn the tables and think about an off the wall question: Do you even need a product?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Current round: $31.0mm in Series C by Insight Venture Partners (Jeff Lieberman). Revenue model: % of total ad or data buy purchased through platform.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). Trust me, once you’ve launched and achieved traction, you’ll have your pick of mentors, VCs, partners and all the legal expenses you need. Partner up? No legal muck.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. The fund managers, who are called"general partners," get about 2% of the fund annually as a managementfee, plus about 20% of the funds gains. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners. Want to start a startup?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. Why is that? tl;dr summary.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

The net effect was more money raised, higher valuation and the same percentage of equity sold. cthomaschase i was not, however my partner jeff did a session and there were a bunch of people from the team there. I know this sounds crazy, but it’s not. their requested capital and a further 1.8 cthomaschase great post. Great stuff.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

owing to projected weakness in the economies of Israel’s main trading partners, the United States and Europe. Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49 billion, of which $2.5

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Redistribution of resources and services through social platforms is creating new business and new revenue streams by monetizing previously underutilized assets. Mr. Berk graduated from Emory University and began his career trading equities (not tools or electronics). Come and meet some of those on the front line.

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