Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2014
So my simple advice is to start PR as early as possible (and certainly earlier than most of your investors will advise) when you have your head around your product plans and are well into execution (or ready to launch) precisely because your recruiting, seed funding and initial user base may depend on it. I raised a small seed round.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 24, 2012
I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. I told David, “Look at the changes we’ve seen in the VC / funding market. It was very widely read. It should be: Local; Right-sized; and.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 12, 2014
These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. But with the massive growth of seed funds being raised and the huge value increase of prorata rights many more LPs have stepped in to take their VC (industry term is GP) position.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 18, 2015
There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. For investors life is no different. “Yeah, we think about going every year.
Xconomy
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Its campuses, often featuring dramatic lobbies, community organic gardens, conference and event centers, restaurants, and collaboration spaces, have in many cases become centerpieces of the local innovation ecosystem. Our campuses also provide great world-class conference facilities, and we also do a lot of hands-on mentoring.
Xconomy
JUNE 3, 2016
This weekend, much of academia and industry involved in cancer will gather in Chicago for the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology conference. million in seed funding from RA Capital Management and others to help sell a liquid formula for infants to help prevent the onset of peanut allergies.
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