Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. Until we weren’t.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 27, 2017
Your body language will reinforce your non-confrontational message that you want to work together to solve some of the sticking points left in the negotiation. Your body language will reinforce your non-confrontational message that you want to work together to solve some of the sticking points left in the negotiation.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. 2007 was the watershed year. The value capture in the private markets has also led some hedge funds and other major non-private-market investors to become late-stage VCs.
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
You can find more ideas here: Product Pricing Strategies and Techniques Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From Should I Lower My Prices To Compete? Hyundai’s Assurance program, which debuted during the 2007–08 financial crisis, is a great example. What does a thoughtful campaign look like?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 18, 2010
What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.
Gust
OCTOBER 8, 2014
Cautionary note: No competent VC is actually fooled when you show up after raising $6M in seed financing and say you’re now raising an A! There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.).
K9 Ventures
JUNE 5, 2015
Almost like boiling a frog the micro-VCs who started out as “super angels” (See my post from 2011 on Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral ) writing $25K – $100K checks with personal money, are now managing funds which are $40M – $140M in size, some with multiple partners and are writing checks which are $750K – $1.5M.
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