Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
I thought I’d try to look at it from a different lens, that of the entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur you should assume that. So what is an entrepreneur to do? I sometimes ask entrepreneurs. We discuss deal structures. But I do the same thing with entrepreneurs and I do it publicly on This Week in VC.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Place your bets on an entrepreneur who has the guts to pivot, restructure, bounce back, and the stamina to re-orientate his business when profitability starts to seem bleak. Emmanuel de Watteville, General Partner and Co-founder of Blue Ocean Ventures, has been part of the startup ecosystem since 2003.
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View from Seed
OCTOBER 21, 2014
In short, more and more entrepreneurs are signaling their price expectations earlier in their seed fundraise process. In theory, there are three levels of pricing for an entrepreneur to potentially signal to a prospective investor: 1. And as my partner Rob Go likes to say, “Time kills all deals.”).
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 2, 2012
In the fall of 2010 Mahendra Ramsinghani reached out to me by email about a new book he was working on called The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies. I made a pile of intros and didn’t think much more of it.
Genuine VC
JULY 30, 2012
In theory, there are three levels of pricing for an entrepreneur to potentially signal to a prospective investor: Lower than “market.” This approach is almost never a good idea. By definition, all entrepreneurs should think that their endeavor is truly exceptional. Above market.
David Teten
MAY 20, 2013
As an entrepreneur, you can identify un-monetized or under-monetized domain names, and then approach the owner with your startup idea. I mentioned earlier World Accelerator.com , a unique accelerator program which helps entrepreneurs build value on top of premium domain names. VentureCamp.com is another roughly similar program.
David Teten
MAY 20, 2013
As an entrepreneur, you can identify un-monetized or under-monetized domain names, and then approach the owner with your startup idea. I mentioned earlier World Accelerator.com , a unique accelerator program which helps entrepreneurs build value on top of premium domain names. VentureCamp.com is another roughly similar program.
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