abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Bill Clerico, CEO and co-founder of WePay. Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over one million employees. For example, it is now just as easy for an individual or small business to build a website, conduct e-commerce, send invoices, schedule services and manage finances as a large enterprise.

Silicon Valley 208

Silicon Valley API Cofounder Salary 208

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public.

Startup 120

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public.

Startup 100

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 100

Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2016

Between 1996 and 2002 I was co-chairman of Interliant, a company I co-founded with three other people. While I learned a ton of finance lessons from the experience, I also learned a lot a leadership lessons. Founder: “You told me the wall needed to be painted.” Your wall is dingy is one of them.

Cofounder 70

Cofounder Founder Equity Acquisition 70

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). students.

IPO 242

IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2016

Bill Gurley wrote an incredible post yesterday titled On the Road to Recap: Why the unicorn financing market just became dangerous … for all involved. “Many Unicorn founders and CEOs have never experienced a difficult fundraising environment — they have only known success. It’s long but worth reading every word slowly.

Marketing 70

Marketing Down Round Startup IRR 70

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. He is currently Co-Founder of CapitalMarkets.com and Editor Of SaaSInsights. Next page: The transition from a founder who does all the sales to a scalable sales team is really, really hard.

Software 127

Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127