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NOVEMBER 3, 2009
I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo! and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, portfolios. Here’s why.
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APRIL 5, 2010
I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.
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InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class.
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APRIL 3, 2010
In one of the posts I spoke about how the size and vintage of funds might affect you when you’re raising money. This led Roy Rodenstein (whose company Going.com was sold to AOL ) and others to discuss , what happens when VC’s need to invest across multiple funds. Specifically Roy commented. Why does the cross-over matter?
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AUGUST 17, 2009
2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital. This was pre Venture Hacks so not a lot of help on terms on the Net. But it was my second company so I had already learned all o f the lessons the hard way. I talk about this in detail here. I’m putting millions of dollars in your company.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal.
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 7, 2013
Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are striving to be the super-mega technology company that owns every layer of the value chain. The first half of the value chain is far more capital-intensive, so they weren’t able to move into those layers until the company grew and matured. This post will focus on the former.
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