Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 11, 2014
I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. Less than 100 days into joining FRC after winding down my startup, I offered my friend Rob the first term sheet I ever sent out--to lead the seed round of the company I accidentally inspired with a Tweet. Venture Capital & Technology'
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 We had 6 term sheets in no time. 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology. We were it in Europe: B2B.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
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.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. Many term sheets ensued. I had that against the backdrop of several term sheets. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.
techcrunch.com
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. It consists of a standard term sheet, automatically generated closing documents, and tools to manage the process including electronic signatures, managing wire information, generating PDFs, and more.
mashable.com
JUNE 11, 2013
In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). We spent six months fundraising only to walk away once we had a term sheet in hand because we realized we were making enough money to sustain and grow the business on our own terms.
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