Silicon Valley Social Network Startup Term Sheet 
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.
Version One Ventures
JULY 20, 2017
He stumbled across “Volley,” a startup we had never heard of before, but appeared at the top of the search results (for the query “Toronto”, “no known funding”) and had a high momentum score. Needless to say, Boris and I were super excited when Mike and David received a term sheet from Bessemer. We led the Volley pre-Seed round.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog.
Reid Hoffman
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Meanwhile, no matter how confident you are, you also know, on some level, that the vast majority of startups fail, and that the default outcome is that you and all the people who trusted you are going to end up smashing into the ground. This kind of thing happens at 99% of startups, and can happen even after your company is “successful.”
Eric Friedman
AUGUST 18, 2021
What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops. Most investors, most people in the startup ecosystem, I would describe as eternal optimists, glass-half-full people. On Dan’s Former Startup. On Leaving Silicon Valley Bank. Why is that?
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2012
In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Start in a business domain you know well.
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