Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. What Has Changed in Financing? Before Twitter he held similar roles at SuccessFactors (SaaS), Akamai (telecoms infrastructure), McAfee (Security Software) and was an investment banker.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

So, you know, I, I have kids that are in their thirties and I'm envisioning a purple dinosaur that I did a a lot of watching with, but I guess there's also Smith Barney, which is certainly in the finance space, but I'm sure you have and Barney. Amanda Dixon (01:29): The store. John Jantsch (01:29): Oh, right, right, right.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. IPOs and M&A have returned – and with them the investment bankers have staged a rebound. Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, At the time all investment bankers secretly wanted to be VCs and many did just that. And I had all the VCs play head games with me. It was 2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, At the time all investment bankers secretly wanted to be VCs and many did just that. And I had all the VCs play head games with me. It was 2007.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. TCP and the other foundational technologies of the web had that same property, that there was something really computationally especially complicated about them, but it was their social value. I'm curious. What was your first reaction when you saw it?

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