2005 Founder PR Venture Capital 
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.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. But in the end these all have a cost – it’s just hidden.
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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.
Altgate
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money. The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder. I’d love to get involved in Founders Institute.
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).
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. In addition to Platform and Applied Venture strategies, the trend towards hiring ex-operators into partner roles at VC firms can be seen in this light.
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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