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Praying to the God of Valuation

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Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out.

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

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I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. years ago. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. ” Yup.

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Ixia Reports Record Revenues, But Sees Loss

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Calabasas-based Ixia , a developer of network testing tools, reported its fourth quarter and 2009 year end results Thursday, saying that it lost $31.3M in Q4 of 2009, on record revenues of $56.1M income tax charge to write-down the value of U.S. The loss came due to a $27.6M deferred tax assets. the firm reported in Q3.

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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011

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I began publishing my blog in 2008. was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. For the first couple years, I wrote under the pseudonym Uncle Saul. Of these entries, four of them are also in my “all time” Top Ten. 2011 Rank.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010. Many may simply hit the wall.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

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years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea. I started by writing 3-4 times / week. So which is it?

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