Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

But, in the alleys, most of the improvised cafés and galleries that used to enliven the city have been cleared away, in the name of order; overhead, the race to build new skyscrapers, which attracted designers from around the world, has stalled. And how mismatched (or unspoken) ones in venture capital can cause stress.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Investors will ask management what their “AI strategy” is before investing and will be wary of companies that don’t have one (Fred Wilson, USV). Some examples: AI will be the new mobile.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

He previously founded N&N Investments LLC, a real estate investment holding company; and is a program leader and fellow of the Startup Leadership Program. . He stressed that your product and company vision needs to match your appetite for funding: One thing that we learned very early on was, have a plan for fund-raising. …

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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

Maintaining an accurate and organized cap table—complete with models for a variety of hypothetical exit scenarios—helps prepare a company and its shareholders for whatever the future might hold. Companies may use equity as an incentive when recruiting executives and board members. Shareholders: Name & Role.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Below are excerpts from some of my comments with some additional explanation that time constraints didn’t allow me to include in my remarks: Our moderator, David Weir (CEO of SharesPost) , opened the panel by framing the liquidity problem for VC-backed companies as follows: Framing the Issue. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6

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