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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. The reason is that no VC wants to see the venture debt provider get burned if you become bankrupt.

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MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. They are, in fact, great news for traditional venture capitalists. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists against the VC industry. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. But VC is also a very important part of the technology ecosystem – like it or not.

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OCTOBER 14, 2015

I spoke at Michael Kim’s excellent annual Cendana VC/LP conference today. One of the points I tried to make is that as venture capital investors as an industry we seem to have a healthy disdain for public market investors. This will be seen as a watershed moment in the wake-up call and rationalization of our industry.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists agains the industry. Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. This is cheaper for them than waiting for big competitors and buying companies at big prices.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. And I certainly didn’t want him having to trapse up-and-down Sand Hill Road informing every VC of his next idea. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad. BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

Todd has a unique view, having worked both on the venture and high technology investing side at Anthem, as well as the architecture and construction industry now. The prefab building area has seen some recent venture capital interest, most recently with Blu Homes in Boston, which just scored some new venture capital.

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MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Market Size.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

Jerry Fitch: The business management team at Golden Gate Capital bought Teridian in 2005. There was legislation moving through in 2004, which ultimately came out in 2005, which was a starting point for the smart meter discussion. For our readers who might not be familiar with Teridian, can you describe what your business is?

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MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I’d link to it but it’s behind a paywall.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3 One way to avoid the valuation dilemma for start-ups is to structure the equity portion of the fee as if it is a bridge loan that can be priced at a discount to a formal round that can be made at a future date.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3 One way to avoid the valuation dilemma for start-ups is to structure the equity portion of the fee as if it is a bridge loan that can be priced at a discount to a formal round that can be made at a future date.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. Neither can any VC. Executive Summary.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As many of you know I run a weekly webcast called This Week in VC that’s getting between 25-35,000 weekly views across ThisWeekIn.com, YouTube & mostly iTunes. How did you determine the right price points for your product? Like many companies they experimented with many pricing models. to $12 conversion went up!

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MAY 5, 2011

I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital.

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JULY 6, 2015

You might look at higher quality / higher price solutions like BMW or Mercedes or you try to see if you can find a bargain with the similar features like a Kia. Let me give you another simple example from my experience as a VC at Upfront Ventures. I think that’s where many startups and even VC funds go wrong.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Ryan Born is the Founder of AudioMicro , which provides a collection of royalty free music and sound effects at affordable prices. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks. Ryan Born – Founder of AudioMicro.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

My partnership was pretty bearish and scratched our heads a bit at price tags. I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. tl;dr summary. We did not.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Think for example if the people with whom you’re trading currency with can use huge piles of cash to drive up the value of your currency in a short period of time and then use coordinated groups to then drive down prices through trading and misinformation to destabilize people. It’s certainly food for thought.

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