abovethecrowd.com
JULY 10, 2014
On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. Uber initially worked well primarily within the San Francisco city limits. It now has high liquidity from South San Jose to Napa. Different Economics.
Professor VC
MARCH 10, 2009
I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.
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VC Cafe
AUGUST 25, 2011
Wanova , the Israeli corporate cloud services provider, has announced the completion of its round B financing totaling $10 million. The round was led entirely by previous backers: the Israeli offices of Greylock Partners and Carmel Ventures , as well as US fund Opus Capital.
genylabs.typepad.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. I wont bother going into details on start-up financing terms ( see this post for an overview of typical VC terms) except to say if you dont know and understand: the firms cap table and valuation. Reports and Resources.
Professor VC
APRIL 7, 2011
My partner in Menlo Incubator , Gary Kremen , and I had a recent debate on which one of us hates convertible debt more. This will also serve as a good pointer for all the entrepreneurs who ask why I am not interested in their company led convertible note financing round. In cases where it is truly a bridge financing (i.e.
Cracking the Code
MAY 15, 2008
I attended yesterday the 10th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends organized by the Churchill Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. This year, the panel included Steve Jurveston from DFJ, Vinod Khosla from Khosla Ventures, Josh Kopelman from First Round Capital, Roger McNamee from Elevation Partners and Joe Schoendorf from Accel.
Professor VC
FEBRUARY 12, 2008
Once the point is reached where you want to move ahead, we put the sales hat on and convince our partners about the incredible opportunity that we are lucky enough to be able to invest on the ground floor. I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class.
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