Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

Magazine calls it a “hybrid venture capital fund and business school”. Watsi - the first non-profit to receive venture backing from Y Combinator. BRB is representative of exactly what Paul Graham refers to in the quote above: an idea for the sake of. BRB isn’t actually the focus of the show either. Ask people.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

I refer to this moment as when you find that you have life changing money in your bank account, which I like to call “f**k you money.” As exits have been flowing nicely again the past few years, many of the entrepreneurs I work with have experienced their first big exit.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The Index reference point starts on January 1st 2008 at 19,187.81 Venture Capital. (3). ► 2006. (7). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Explore Venture Capital. pts and is dynamically updated via GoogleDocs. Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6). McKinsey highlights. (1). software.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Education plays a major role in venture capital. In this article on stock photos , I described a study illustrating that power: “ Bateson, Nettle, & Roberts (2006) provided customers with an unsupervised ‘honesty box’ to pay for their lunch. Reference an Inexpensive Hedonic Product. How can you reveal your reputation?

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

By sales board plan, are you referring to Gary's actual business planning forecasts? Venture Capital. (3). ► 2006. (7). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Explore Venture Capital. Good afternoon, had a rather elementary question. Thank you!! Zaki Usman. Very Informative.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

It quickly became impossible to raise venture capital. When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. It isn’t even a story about raising venture capital or M&A. If they want reference calls be ballsy. Any deal. Things change.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I then went to Pepperdine University School of Law and graduated in 2006 with a Certificate from the Geoffrey H. A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model. Today, there is still seed capital to be found, but you have to show the investors (especially very early stage investors) that you have a viable business.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

– Need venture capital. The valuation method described herein was also detailed in my book, the Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels (2006, available on Gust). Others have referred to this and similar methods as the Benchmark Method. Positive other factors. – Negative other factors.

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Tim Keane

MAY 8, 2006

» May 08, 2006. Getting Over The Capital Hurdle. "My question is how you get over the capital hurdle when you have a product that straddles the fence between the need for Angel Investors and VC money and your friends and family cannot get you over the hump? Getting Over The Capital Hurdle.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

In a casino, the term “rake” refers to the commission that the house earns for operating a poker game. In 2006, Benchmark started spending time with Gary Swart and the team at oDesk. Apple Internet iphone IPO marketplaces social networking Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Commission Marketplace online marketplaces pricing'

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

« How do you present your venture to an investor? » June 13, 2006. By the time we were done, we proved the model and gained enough new business that we didn’t need venture capital for almost a decade. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference A budget discussion with an entrepreneur : Comments.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Billion by Sandisk in 2006, etc. In the pipeline, there’s no shortage of future unicorns, fondly referred to as ‘charging ponies’ by our friend Yaron Samid at TechAviv. There were many Israeli startup transactions north of $1 billion in the early 2000s. Lucent acquired Chromatis for $4.8b So far, crisis was averted.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 24, 2006

The Equality Conundrum: Where 50-50 equals Zero » April 24, 2006. Last night, Bob Zieserl, Venture Capitalist, and general partner at Stratus Ventures, was the keynote speaker at the Marquette University Business Plan Competition. "Over the last twenty years, 11,000 companies have had Venture Capital investments.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

Everyone in the Graphics Lab, including the professors (Ren worked with Pat Hanrahan , Mark Horowitz and Marc Levoy for his research), always referred to it as “Ren’s Camera.” It was the defining moment when I started thinking about doing my own venture fund.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

In 2006 when I was a budding entrepreneur building my second startup I ran into a young (ish) enthusiastic founder of an electronic signature company called EchoSign. I know it will be hard for you to believe in 2015 but in 2006 Palo Alto (where I lived) was kind of dead. Some background. Jason decided to take a position. Question not.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

In 2006, Steven Dietz, a partner at my firm, GRP Partners, had given me $500,000 in a seed in convertible debt when I started my second company, Koral. In 2006, Steven Dietz, a partner at my firm, GRP Partners, had given me $500,000 in a seed in convertible debt when I started my second company, Koral. Not so venture capital.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

We also took advantage of this event to unveil the long awaited "10 Bessemer laws of SaaS" - these laws are based on what we have observed at Bessemer by investing in 25+ SaaS companies in the past years and we hope it will be an interesting reference for SaaS executives getting ready for 2008: 1. Venture Capital. (3).

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things). So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Here’s why.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). The title is CEO Friday and you referred to David as a recruiter? Saturday edit : Wow, this post has hit quite a nerve. If I were at a startup… no wait.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The tech community has been having a long-overdue conversation about mental health and work/life balance and it’s something I’ve been talking up as far back as 2006 , 2009 , and 2014 on my blog and in public. It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely. I continue to emphasize that as an investor today.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

This, by the way, isn’t very different from how the term social commerce became muddled after Bazaarvoice first started promoting it in 2006 to describe what we do?—?unfortunately, For some of the other ingredients we look for when startups pitch, refer to The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #3. I’ve also heard BDAs called SaaS 3.0

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2021

There were conferences and meetups—and some big venture capital dollars followed into platform companies. Six Apart, the makers of Typepad and Vox (a different Vox), which were meant for indie and small bloggers, raised $12mm from August Capital in 2006. One company seemed to be a bet on everyone blogging.

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