Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. That used to be called A-round investing. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. of the fund.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

” For the company’s customers, MetaCX provides a dashboard that includes outcomes, the collaboration, metrics tracked as part of the relationship and all the metrics around that are part of that engagement layer,” says McCorkle. . “It is API embeddable and we have a full user experience layer.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. But not many others. The amount of money we save for follow-ons is called “reserves.”

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

One day, after they made their first investment, a six-figure sum, we figured out we needed to take this money seriously and not be in school. Some of th epilots have made it far enough to have some metrics, to the point we're having conversations about integration.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

But we do it anyway, because we believe that the short-term metrics probably aren’t indicative of the long term.”. Because of his grounding as an investment banker, Jeff appreciated the value of hard data. Don’t Chase The Quick Buck. Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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