Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. portfolios.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2020

Bill is an accomplished author, speaker, radio personality and movie celebrity, With a very successful background in finance and marketing, he has spent two decades working with start-ups to major global brands increasing sales, productivity and overall success. In 90 days, as we have just witnessed, the entire market can shift dramatically.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

Marketing – if you have t-shirts / watches / swag, parties – all of this fits under this budget. And then later, when the fund needs money, the fund does a capital call. Typically, capital calls are done over the course of 3 years. But most funds try as best as they can to do regular capital calls.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

Marketing – if you have t-shirts / watches / swag, parties – all of this fits under this budget. And then later, when the fund needs money, the fund does a capital call. Typically, capital calls are done over the course of 3 years. But most funds try as best as they can do do regular capital calls.

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Salary Capital Call Bootstrapping Cofounder 48

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Doing better than average requires what Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital called ‘different and better’ thinking in a recent memo to his investors. Being an average investor in startups is therefore a waste of time. It’s actually a surefire recipe for losing money.

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Andrew Payne

MARCH 25, 2009

For too long, venture’s been over-funded and over-staffed with homogeneity: the same kinds of partners, operating with the same fund model, looking at the same investments, in the same markets. LPs missing capital calls (a very big deal).

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