Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

However, using portfolio theory, your losers are going to far outnumber your winners, so taking half or more of the gains out of the winners will have a big impact on the overall returns. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

San Jose 36

San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Valuation 36

Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

I personally enjoy the earliest stages and building a portfolio of start-ups and entrepreneurial teams. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. The cheerleader role isnt all bad. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital Balance Sheet 28

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

Actually keeping the company in business, having it have a sustainable business model, having it pull in the funds that it needs to keep going, that's actually not a greedy thing to do. So anyone in your portfolio, or anyone that you've been talking to have an example of something like that, or impressed you with something?

Dallas 68

Dallas Employee Government Social Media 68

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Bessemer Venture Partners lists an anti-portfolio of investments they passed on that includes Apple, Ebay, Intel, and Google. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. Now, back to that house in Mountain View, California.

San Jose 31

San Jose Technical Review Venture Capital Angel Investor 31

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

This is not far from the Y Combinator model , except they put a lot of time and energy into working with the entrepreneurs. With 2 or 4 new investments per week that Right Side is projecting, it will be challenging enough to remember the names of the entrepreneurs in their portfolio, let along help build companies. ► October. (1).

San Jose 28

San Jose Silicon Valley Venture Capital Angel Investor 28

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most are sitting on large portfolios of private companies that are raising money now or will need to do so in the future and they know that they’re up against some headwinds. Huge funding increases lead to massive wage inflation, rent inflation and thus higher burn rates. There is reason for despondency.

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Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

However, as we soon discovered, many of these firms were forced to hoard capital for existing portfolio companies and focus most of their time and energy on deciding which ones deserved these reserves. Some were also dealing with issues of limited partners struggles with capital calls and asset allocations. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28