Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Yesterday I had lunch with a really interesting and capable serial entrepreneur who is raising his A round. The topic of &# strategic&# investors came up. And I had 2 “strategic&# investors in my first company. Many serial entrepreneurs who have been burned would use something less kind than quotes.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors.

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The Next Web

APRIL 22, 2013

It’s almost impossible not to be impressed with Javier Agüera , a 20-year-old technology entrepreneur and engineering student from Madrid. The company is currently raising funding from a number of strategic investors and is looking to secure 1 million euros or more to accelerate growth. And then some.

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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). Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. Real-time search engine.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Entrepreneurs with businesses in Asia know that fundraising here can be a daunting task. With this in mind, I would like to use my experience as an entrepreneur, having closed several sizable rounds of investment around Asia over the last six years, to help explain the landscape as it currently stands.

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www.mattbartus.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

They had a strategic investor in the wings that wanted to invest, but the company thought they could get a higher valuation from the strategic. So they sold all the shares at a $10 million pre-money, but gave the investors enough warrants to drive down their effective pre-money valuation (as closely as possible) to $7 million.

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