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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 6, 2014
When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you work at a company that has raised $20 million in capital or more this is the likely situation unless you had overnight and meteoric growth that gave you the power to hold on to a board majority.
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
It is far more detrimental to one’s returns to make investments in companies which fail to return capital. A VC has done their job when their funds include enough great companies to generate an industry-leading outcome. Thus, while it is painful for a great investment to pass you by, the pain is wistful, not acute.
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InfoChachkie
MARCH 10, 2014
Great love and great achievements involve great risk - nothing ventured, nothing gained. It will tell you a lot about them - consider using this as an interviewing technique, you might be surprised by your candidates'' responses. Many of Mr. My brief annotations follow each quote. Never give up when you truly believe.
InfoChachkie
APRIL 14, 2014
Our fantastically inefficient Federal Government could learn a great deal from the folks at ABC. In many ways, you act as a venture capital firm, with returns measured in impact, rather than profits. Yes, our approach is similar to what you’d see from a venture capital firm. ABC''s Founder And CEO Speaks Out.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. What gives? Am I a hypocrite?
InfoChachkie
DECEMBER 2, 2009
Some channels will be expensive but highly scalable, such as direct response radio, while others will be less expensive, but more difficult to scale, such as search and affiliates. In addition, you must consider your customers’ lifetime value by channel , as there can be a great deal of variance between various clusters of customers.
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