SiliconHills

MARCH 1, 2017

Silverton Partners, a venture capital firm founded in 2005, is raising a $100 million Silverton Partners V fund, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Austin-based venture capital firm lists Adam Chibib, Michael Dodd, Morgan Flagler and Kip McClanahan as its general partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. How do people get access to First Round Capital? and Half.com.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal. Around that time, I’ll be able to mark twenty years since I started as the first analyst at Union Square Ventures.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. management, founders, angel investors) get any money. It is 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. In any given year there are about 50 venture-backed companies or so that are bought for $100 million or more. some founders lose their life savings. This post originally ran on TechCrunch.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

links » Attracting a CTO to your startup Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 05:29AM by Charlie ODonnell Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup. Dont forget that this person is adding you as a partner just as much as youre adding them, so look in the mirror and think about what you bring to the table.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. And there you have it. Not a chance.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

“Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

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The Next Web

MARCH 8, 2014

Jason Lemkin is the Managing Director at Storm Ventures , a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage enterprise and IT companies, including MobileIron , Marketo and GuideSpark. From the standpoint of a founder, the life of a venture capitalist can seem very, very different. Waiting game.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Also consider an area for its potential business partners (software integrators, resellers, etc.) In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Knowing these will help a founder position her pitch to get investors’ attention. Founders need to keep their eye on the prize — not just the next funding round. Step 5: Series, C, D….

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? .” ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2017

While there’s a certain cachet that comes with being able to say you raised a round of funding for your startup, realize that it’s a lot of hard work to actually secure venture capital (VC) funding , and there are reasons you might not want to. If you’re looking to bring on a partner and money, venture capital might be the right fit.

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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

  The criteria for inclusion on this list is rough but basically boils down to the primary author of the blog has to be a founder or C-level executive at an entrepreneurial organization and write relatively frequently about entrepreneurial stuff.    So with that in mind, I created a list of entrepreneur blogs. 

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Groups list on March 15, 2005. Still in business today and run by my co-founder. to date from some of the best, including most recently Workday and others.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Venture capital is one method of getting a company off the ground, but it’s not the only method. Venture capital is also not a guarantee of success. Venture capitalists invest in multiple companies because they know that not all of them will succeed. Myth #3: I need a partner. Really big.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. In 2005, he retired to focus on giving back, beginning by teaching technology entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, becoming a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania (which he attended undergrad), and funding cancer research with his wife.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

After seeing the negative effects of dehydration, both me and my co-founder, Ming, decided that we want to spread knowledge about hydration and create a product that could help with this problem. Hi my name is Raja Sahi, co-founder of Escapedom. My name is Zoltán Honti, co-founder of Escapedom. That’s how Ozmo was born.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

This LP is also a long time investor in Union Square Ventures and was one of the first people Fred introduced us to when we started raising the first Foundry Group fund in 2007. The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, the influential advisor to dozens of startups like Dropbox and Airbnb , sent his entrepreneurs an email Wednesday afternoon cautioning them against taking "lowball offers"—in particular, he said, from Google Ventures. Blackboard Home » Google Ventures. What does this incident tell us?

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. Then from the mid 2000s, value add began moving beyond the partner to the firm as VCs began employing people who’s full time job was helping their portfolio.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 23, 2016

The first thing to happen was that the bar for a Series A went up – unsurprising given that startups could now get much further with pre-Series A amounts of capital (2005-2010). That created a gap in market which sub $100m dedicated seed funds (aka micro-VCs) stepped into – there are now over 300 of them (2005-2016).

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. Member since 01/2005. Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have. venture capital.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 21, 2021

UiPath was founded in Bucharest in 2005, selling computer vision technology to OEMs. It was a difficult time of exploration and iteration, as many founders experience, and it took 10 long years to build the company from $0 to $1mm in revenue, a difficult phase. The Global Partners of Accel.

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Altgate

JANUARY 4, 2009

But it’s not so far fetched though that layoffs will soon be coming to venture capital. We’re already starting to see layoffs at the large private equity funds where Blackstone , Carlyle and American Capital announced staff cuts between 7% and 19% in December. The VC stared at him with a bewildered look.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2017

In 1999 when I started in venture capital there were no blogs and very few business books that were useful for entrepreneurs. All founders could do was accumulate wise advisors and rely on their wits and instinct. It’s not the easiest read, but for the first time founders had a playbook they could follow.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs !

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Geoffrey Arone , the founder of FLock, who is now an Entrepreneur-In-Residence in our Menlo Park office, mentioned this company to me and I thought it was worth writting a post about it. Venture Capital. (3).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

Last week LinkedIn reminded me that it’s been 9 years since I started VC Cafe (Dec 2005). Eating my own dogfood - I was obsessed with startups and venture capital… and I talked to a lot of people and picked up nuggets along the process. ” the post was also picked up by Venturebeat. are a great validation.

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Up and Running

MAY 7, 2018

Let’s say you have a partner and kids, so you probably devote 2 to 3 hours per day with them on most days. Its founder Nick Woodman is a billionaire. By 2005, GoPro had $150,000 in revenue. Let’s say you sleep for 8 hours and spend 2 hours in total on the commute to and from work. That leaves you with 5 hours. billion in 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. It’s a very cool vibe at Founder’s Coop. My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

David Daneshgar, Gregg Weisstein, and Farbod Shoraka, the founders of BloomNation.com. But, of course, they need funding—and wouldn’t you know it, one of the founders is a world class poker player. The startup takes off, raising venture capital funds faster than you can say “storybook ending.”. They’re not mass produced.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2010

In 2005, I wrote a post titled ADPrentice that talked about a weekend event I did with a number of the undergraduates in my MIT fraternity (ADP). In the post I described the entrepreneurship education event I helped put on with Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners – then at Sequoia Capital) and Mark Siegel (Menlo Ventures).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Venture capital Rounds. Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. million in its third financing round led by Pitango Venture Capital. Israeli venture capital news. Footbo raises $2.5 has raised $16.5 – Israeli MFA.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Weild is the founder of Capital Markets Advisory Partners.

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