Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. — I would trade a 6-month exclusivity for a large, 3-year guaranteed revenue deal in many instances provided I’m an early-stage company looking for my first big contract win.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. That’s why you also need super early stage investors who can lead rounds, being willing to place bets when there isn’t much there there.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. It can help you be a strong athlete, which makes you an attractive early-stage player.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Robert has been working in software since 2005. Those higher costs make learning to write ads, manage campaigns, A/B test, and design landing pages a very expensive activity for an early stage, bootstrapping startup. (Powered by LaunchBit ). He is a Ph.D. dropout who spent time working for Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. If you’re not getting great deals early – you may never see them.” ” I was trying to encourage him to set up an early-stage practice. Nearly everybody in the DC region had told me, “You must meet Mike.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Blake has long been involved in the Dallas startup scene, having helped organize the first BarCamp Dallas in 2005. Previously, she was with HP Growth Partners, an early stage venture fund in Dallas. Gabriella Draney, Tech Wildcatters.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

In another we decended into a debate about our 5 year forecasts (I built the models so fielded most of these questions), and it became clear they probably weren’t the best fit for our Series A round (this group is no longer in the early-stage VC business). And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e. Congrats! .

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big. In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. That’s what K9 does.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. They built industrial-scale funds dedicated to backing early-stage startups with $500k rather than $5 million.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries. From the middle to 2005 to early 2010 the business was break-even or better every quarter.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. Early stage startups are <5 yrs old. 5-10 years is typically the rampup stage. We’ve moved >$1b in resources from the corporate sector to nonprofits. 3 specific issues: 1. How we embrace technology for good. We view Startup America as a 3.5-year

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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The Next Web

MARCH 8, 2014

Jason Lemkin is the Managing Director at Storm Ventures , a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage enterprise and IT companies, including MobileIron , Marketo and GuideSpark. Storm Ventures’ 2005 vintage fund is on a tear, and should return perhaps 400 percent to its investors.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

A few years before all this scandalous VC behavior occurred, in 2005 Paul Graham ) started Y Combinator. Along with the trend towards hiring VC partners with more operational experience, we are also seeing substantial growth and investment in non-investment staff at several funds, particularly those that focus on early-stage companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. There has been a preponderance of early-stage deals that have seen quick exits. And the best early-stage investors know this. So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2016

We when started Techstars in 2006, our goal was to change the way early stage company creation and innovation worked. This is not a new issue to me as I’ve been working with various organizations, such as National Center for Women & Information Technology , since 2005.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

Paul Krugman, a Noble Prize winning economist, predicted that by 2005 it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy will be no greater than the Fax machine… Source: (you can check the authenticity on Snopes). For example, in 1998, Prof.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2016

So, the lens of 2005 (history) and 2025 (future) is the one I’m currently enjoying. The Big Short is picking up major steam in 2005. Early stage and seed capital was extremely difficult to find. Instead, I generally like a ten year moving window to process things. Techstars didn’t exist.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

About a year ago David Cohen and I were having a beer together talking about ways to capture all the different things we’d learned about early stage entrepreneurship from running the TechStars program. Our goal was to write a unique book full of useful information for any early stage entrepreneur.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

In 2007, when we set out to raise our first Foundry Group fund, early stage tech VC was in the shitter. No one believed that you could make any money as an early stage VC and when we went out to raise our first fund, we heard over and over again that we were on a fools errand. But is wasn’t always this way.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. There has been a preponderance of early-stage deals that have seen quick exits. And the best early-stage investors know this. In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.)

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

No, the heart of the “find the next Facebook” challenge is that the vast majority of investors are either too poor or - more interestingly - too rich to even consider an investment like Peter Thiel’s $250,000 into Facebook in 2005. Now, if it is any consolation, so too are the very rich mostly closed off from early-stage private investing.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

If we fund an early stage startup company today and it’s hugely successful, it’ll be coming into its own in 2025. ” The years 1995 through 2005, shown almost entirely in red ink, were “The Part Before That. That’s a good marker for many of the early stage companies I’m involved in.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

There are three tiers to the global mining industry, and it is the third tier – known as the “junior” space – that is familiar to many entrepreneurs involved in early-stage projects. In 2005, Warke founded the Augusta Group of Companies, a conglomerate of public and private business. Warke’s sale of Arizona Mining Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Early stage VCs are often expected to play at least pro-rata in following rounds. When companies are successful, the early investors often (but not always) back off their pro-rata. But, once you start participating in later rounds, the expectation of your financial participation changes.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0

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VC Adventure

JUNE 15, 2011

But what’s going on right now with early stage company valuations suggests that VCs may be poor judges of at least some of these patterns. In reality, since Facebook’s first venture round in 2005 over 10,000 different businesses have received venture funding. Or so the logic goes.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

I have been working with a number of early stage teams going through various stages of fundraising and using this diagram to help explain my thoughts on some of the questions they will come up against. Well, for starters I don’t believe there was the ubiquity of broadband that existed in 2004-2005.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

it's up to the Board or CEO) One or more financial metrics Balanced scorecard For very early stage startups (e.g. " Well, there are basically three ways you can link pay to performance (in startups): Discretionary (i.e.  It is just too hard to see out 12+ months with any certainty to be able to pick meaningful metrics.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses…it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding. 2: We Focus on Early Stage SaaS. We’re a SaaS accelerator, and accelerators focus on early-stage companies.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The acquisition is a bitter-sweet end to the story of Veoh, which has raised $70 million since getting funded in 2005 from institutional investors (Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, Shelter Capital and Spark Capital among others) and big media companies such as ABC, CBS and Warner Brothers.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In 2005, David Choe was invited to paint a number of murals at Facebook’s HQ in Palo Alto. Consider your other options, and tread carefully in the early stages of business! Choe may have lost out and made nothing if the company had gone under, but because it was a monumental success, he is now worth approximately $200 million.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Member since 01/2005. Before you agree to take equity in lieu of cash, you need to understand that any individual early stage start-up company equity is most likely going to be worthless. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. December 2010. Blog powered by TypePad. Assistant Edge.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

in 2005 to 6.9% Entrepreneurial ventures of all types suffered during the deepest phase of the crisis in 2008-9: Early-stage fell from 8.7% The Midwest bears greatest hardship, with its early-stage entrepreneurship dropping from 7.4% Their early-stage activity fell considerably from 17.9%

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

As the number of startups has exploded over the last 30-40 years best practices have been developed that can be shared from one early stage company to the next. This trend accelerated through the emergence of VC and operator blogging in the early 2000s. . Entrepreneurship is becoming more science and less art.

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