www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing. Raising the firm’s initial $165 million was a three-year overnight success,” Coats says.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

You can listen to the podcast here, or search for Greymatter Podcast in your podcatcher. This is one of the reasons why the best practice for a startup is to raise investment rounds from different lead investors rather than simply doing internal rounds, even if an internal round requires less work.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The funding search began the day after Labor Day and continued throughout the fall as the environment continued to worsen, and resulted in a term sheet the day before Thanksgiving. Mid-way through the process, we took another cut at our business plan and built a model where $5 million would be sufficient to get us beyond breakeven.

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