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How’s Venture Capital Changing in 2023

VC Cafe

Maybe surprisingly, but emerging managers in particular, outperformed ‘blue chip’ funds from 2004 to 2020. They are more reluctant to deploy capital or, at least, not without extensive and reinforced due diligence.

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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

approx 2004-09. Top performers conduct 40 hours or more of due diligence per investment and stick with companies as active advisors.[3]. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2009: Holding Steady but Changes in Seed and Startup Investments”. DeGennaro & Dwyer: “Expected Returns to Angel Investors” 603.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). We ultimately had a good outcome with our Series A but I assure you it required some hard work and we faced plenty of skepticism. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996.

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Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs - from Guy Kawasaki

Startup Lessons Learned

Several investors are already in due diligence." Copyright © Guy Kawasaki, 2004, 2015.' When investors contact these key employees who are supposedly set to join a company, the response is often, "I vaguely remember meeting the CEO at a cocktail party." Excerpted from The Art Of The Start 2.0:

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Attracting a CTO to your startup

www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

That would be my due diligence on you if I was a technical partner--lots of people saying yes. Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Top Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Search Chat Links LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Flickr Last.fm