Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If you have an hour to watch the TWiVC video of Seth I promise you won’t regret it. So some show notes if you’re a bit busy to watch the video. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital.

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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. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. Our centralization is their achilles heel.

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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

APRIL 25, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← HBS Student Business Plan Contest Finalists CompStudy: Useful Resource For Entrepreneurs & VCs Alike → 104 Year Old Video of San Francisco Posted on April 25, 2010 by fnazeeri I love stuff like this.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. You can watch the video of us discussing this and other topics here. But as usual there is a short summary to know the key topics where you can just skip to the critical point in the video you want to watch. This video is pure gold.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2011

When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. Brad & Jason’s, Venture Deals , aims to change this. I was significantly wiser by 2005 when I started my second company. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. Drag along rights? That sounds fine to me.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I don''t remember when I started talking to Rob, but I know it was before February of 2005, because I found "rob@businesspundit.com" in the contacts I ported over when I left GM and went to USV. Rob messed around with some local video thing in 2008, which everyone but Rob thought was a pretty terrible idea.

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Altgate

MAY 3, 2009

but the video is worth a watch nonetheless.  But, much later we happened upon a better way of ranking webpages to make a really great search engine, and Google was born. When a really great dream shows up, grab it! Unfortunately the audio drops out for about a minutes from 0:43 to 2:28 (can you say " Nixon tapes "?)

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

With all of the new ways to see early companies such as TechCrunch and YCombinator, I had a feeling that much of the luster was gone and debated whether it was worth the time to attend.The last time I went to DEMO was in 2005 for the launch of one of my companies, iControl Networks. Scayl -A slick way to email huge files, including HD Video.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days. venture capitalists put $8.1 It’s clear that factors like the greater American economy and the bumpy tech IPO market don’t necessarily have a direct and/or timely correlation with venture capital spending. Latest Video. Enterprise.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

Using the toolset of video games, anyone with access to a computer could play cognitive games without having to use other expensive equipment or trained professionals. Both companies are backed by venture capital funds. The rise of the information industry changed all that. Cognitive gaming became a viable business.

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Altgate

MARCH 3, 2011

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← The Real Reason Google May Fail Operating System for the Classroom Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin By now most people have heard of Sal Khan and the Khan Academy. Check it out.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I think this episode is worth watching ( video is here ) but as always I’ll try to summarize for anybody short on time. Users participate by performing tasks, taking surveys or watching advertiser videos.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In the case of YouTube there were countless other examples of online video providers, some during the dot com boom, that didn’t quite make it. Well, for starters I don’t believe there was the ubiquity of broadband that existed in 2004-2005. Think about the explosion of digital video recorders (remember Flip cams?)

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Altgate

APRIL 12, 2010

Birchbox ChickRx CleverBootz eight1six EverTrue FashionStake Friends For Sport OsComp Palliative Care of America RelayRides SIRTAP Therapeutics (watch the video to see their pitch at MIT) Smarter Hearing I found links to a few of the companies, but not all. The finals judging is later this month. I wish them all the best!

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A video of the talk is not online, but I did find a transcript which I’ve edited a bit here: Like Andy said, I’m not really supposed to be here. These notions of an independent ethos don’t map that well to what we know about venture capital, which is a very staged and formulaic way of building a company. And that’s not a joke.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Check out the video for more details. The privately held company is headquartered in Los Altos, California and is backed by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Emergence Capital Partners, General Atlantic, Meritech Capital Partners, NEA, Scale Venture Partners, and U.S.

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Altgate

JUNE 9, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← CompStudy: Useful Resource For Entrepreneurs & VCs Alike Who is this Julian Assange guy anyway? I have to say that Tim Healy, co-founder and CEO of EnerNOC (NASDAQ: ENOC) rocked the house.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp. The second panel will focus on collaborative investing in non-public alternative investments (private equity, venture capital, receivables, etc.). . Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It means that guys like Mark Cuban were not simply lucky for starting a streaming video company in 1995 and selling it to Yahoo for $6 billion in 1998. For subsequent ventures, successful entrepreneurs raise venture capital earlier than do first time entrepreneurs. Think about that. Bookmark the permalink.

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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. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! Have an account? But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent.

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Altgate

JUNE 15, 2009

 Well, today I saw a brilliant YouTube video that captures my point.  If you're an entrepreneur and you cringe and see a little bit of yourself in this video, remember that the next time you get it back from a VC. I've learned this rule the hard way but when I stick to it, I have no complaints.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. He began as part of Salt Lake Citys Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures ), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001. We thought readers might like to know more about this interesting player in the tech community. startupcto

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Altgate

JULY 13, 2009

 The video is long (the Terminator sound track doesn't help) and shows the mule-thing for the first 6 minutes followed by short snippets of various prototypes.  The commercial applications aren't obvious to me but the military ones sure are (and judging from their website, that's what Boston Dynamics is focused on).

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Altgate

JANUARY 13, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Why I Canceled My CO2stats Account Help Ban Non-Competes In Massachusetts → Running & Reading Posted on January 13, 2009 by fnazeeri Just saw this over on Brad Feld’s blog and had to repost.

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Altgate

JUNE 19, 2009

Well, watch the video.  In fact I had asked him that very question about the pig and the chicken and he had exactly the right answer. But I still wondered if he'd walk the walk. It's one of the best behind the scenes of starting a company that I've ever seen!   I love the line, "Am I nervous?

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← An Engineer’s Suggestion For the Stimulus Plan Members of Congress on Twitter → Armageddon Averted? LiveLeak has the story.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. People Recommended Mashable Staff More people.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. So why would raising venture capital be any different. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds. Tell a friend!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

And since there was no Venture Capital in the 1950′s/’60′s where was the money coming from? The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. What created this microwave startup culture in the 1950′s? Why was it occurring here?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. I think you’ll enjoy this TWiVC video because the topics were so wide ranging. Online video: is Hulu’s inventory really “sold out” as they often claim?

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VC Cafe

JULY 24, 2017

I started blogging in December 2005. Blogger in 2005 (courtesy of Internet Time Machine) . The list of top blogs in 2005 by Time Magazine is a good snapshot: the hardcore tech blogs were LifeHacker and BoingBoing (both are a bit ‘tired’ but still great) and people flocked to blogs like Overheard in New York and PostSecret.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech still says it best - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. And one day all the seemingly random data and experience they’ve acquired will end up as an insight in building something greater than the sum of the parts. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

If you have or are thinking about a business in the video space you’ll enjoy hearing from Gregg but even more broadly this is a great conversation for entrepreneurs, investors or industry analysts. This video discusses issues like: 1. In the video he talks about how he chose them and why he likes them.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

In 2005, Kiva launched a micro-finance platform that allows people to lend small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in developing areas. More recently, companies like Kickstarter have emerged to enable the public to fund creative projects ranging from independent films, video games, and food projects.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. billion (plus an earn out that could have totalled $4 billion but didn’t in the end) in 2005 before selling 65% of the company in 2009 for $1.9 So Skype was ubiquitous.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Venture capital Rounds. million in its third financing round led by Pitango Venture Capital. Japan’s Softbank and current investors General Catalyst, Spark Capital, and Union Square Ventures also participated. Full article and Video. Israeli venture capital news. Footbo raises $2.5

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