Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. The more they know your strategic objectives the more laterally they can act on your behalf in key situations. What Rob wrote in his post is right. Have topics.
Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2014
Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 28, 2010
This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. Investors: Summit Partners (lead), Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Gary Vaynerchuk. 15mm in Series A.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 15, 2010
– I spoke about GRP’s recent exit of Ulta in which we returned $320 million to our limited partners. I spoke about the need of the CEO, CTO and head of Products to be in the same location. Yes, that was the value that we actually returned as opposed to the value of Ulta. Great exit. -
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). Partner up?
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