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. I can tell you first hand than bankers are out making road shows to gin up interest in VCs and institutional investors. Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.).

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

abovethecrowd.com

MAY 20, 2013

As Benchmark is a large institutional investor in Grubhub, we were actively involved in the merger process, and we are quite excited about the potential of the two companies coming together. Most models are also based on forward forecasts, which offers another avenue for inflation.

Merger 53

Merger Institutional Investors Liquidation Preference Preferred Stock 53

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr. It’s a web-based time tracking system. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95