InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 7, 2015

I recently came across an interesting Quora response from a friend and one of my favorite co-investors, Jason Lemkin. I was very appreciative of this windfall, as the company was essentially a lifestyle business that my co-founder and I never expected to sell. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

However, the greater degree you can sequentially follow these steps and maintain your discussions with each venture capitalist (VC) at relatively the same stage, the sooner you can spend less time in the company of investors and get back to running your business. Follow them on Twitter, Quora and become familiar with their Facebook presence.

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MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). There is one source that was always problematic for me – intros from investment bankers. They are venture bankers not investment bankers.

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APRIL 8, 2010

My answer: “no.&# I believe that the team is high potential but the valuation seems stratospheric to me for the stage of the company. Quora ( funding led by Benchmark at a crazy valuation: $86 million ). Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. now (or ever).

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MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). There is one source I never liked and no early-stage VC should – investment bankers. They are venture bankers not investment bankers.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Eventually a successful startup will grow into a big company. Growth will slow, partly due to internal limits and partly because the company is starting to bump up against the limits of the markets it serves.” The company hasn’t really reached ‘ escape velocity ‘ which means it must not be working.”

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AUGUST 1, 2010

There is a structural reason that VCs are investing at early stages, 2. Many (Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, GRP Partners, Mike Hirshland at Polaris Ventures) do it the right way – we treat it as a normal investment and we don’t have a “options&# strategy with our investment.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.&#. Convertible debt is an investment that “converts&# into equity in the future usually at a discount to your next funding round price and sometimes has a “cap&# (maximum price). “Convertible notes have won.

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MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. Let’s look at some great companies. billion in returns.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t run one of the world’s largest companies but I can tell you for free that even I get some crazy physical mails because knowing one’s corporate address is quite easy. Are you interested in looking at this investment where I’m on the board?” Do you think that the CEO of Google should answer every written letter he receives?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2013

As Talieh states on Quora , he is focused on changing the nature of consumer-to-business communications, and his platform accomplishes this bold undertaking. Imagine this: You need to call your car insurance company and get urgent assistance.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I’m an investor at [Big Name, Large Fund VC] and recently came across [Your Company]. It looks as though you’ve built a very interesting business, and I’d love to spend some time getting a better understanding of your future plans for the company and if there is an opportunity to partner with [My Firm].

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 27, 2011

My response was brief and straightforward, which is common of popular Quora answers (as discussed in How To Write An Effective Quora Answer ). Stone Soup will also instruct your child that one of the most effective techniques for acquiring an investment is to not ask for money.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 18, 2013

Ideally, such early-stage investors should have the experiences and motivation to help their ventures establish a sustainable business model, rather than simply writing a check before moving on to their next investment. Implicitly represented in the above matrix is a fifth Angel type that abides by the "Sounds Good" school of investing.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

Phil Hui-Bon-Hoa , the CEO of El Segundo-based Kaleo (www.kaleo.com), is a serial entrepreneur who has previously built and sold four companies, including one acquired by IFILM, and another by Sun Microsystems. We're trying to save companies money, and increase the productivity of employees. How did the company start?

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MARCH 30, 2011

It’s the whole basis of my investment philosophy, which I call “ The Entrepreneur Thesis.&#. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. Great product ideas (and even potentially great companies) are being thrust at us in an attempt to go more quickly. It takes options off of the table.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Feeling lost on LinkedIn or Quora or can’t qualify to join ResearchGate ? The idea for exploreB2B resulted from my own experience in business development for a young consulting company and my brother’s enthusiasm for tech and social media. ExploreB2B might be the place for you. What inspired them to find it? Any funding yet?

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JANUARY 31, 2011

I was asked by somebody recently in a private message on Quora about whether the individual should leave his comfortable job to become an entrepreneur. There is no shame in being an exec at a company or whatever.&#. Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party. able to sign up online and rent the car, with only $50,000 invested in the company, which went towards the website, database and beta car. She left us with 3 main points in building a company: Start with a mission.

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JANUARY 22, 2011

I was asked by somebody recently in a private message on Quora about whether the individual should leave his comfortable job to become an entrepreneur. There is no shame in being an exec at a company or whatever.&#. Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with.

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

I’ve thought a lot about team construction of early stage companies. I was once asked on Quora what my idea startup team would be. I wrote the following : “I like to invest at the seed or A round. You know the old adage (I first heard from Guy Kawasaki) – how much is an Internet company worth?

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NOVEMBER 22, 2014

I didn’t invest in any of their fine competitors either like Lyft, Sidecar, Hailo, etc. As somebody who has to rub shoulders with big tech companies often I can tell you that there is much blood spilled in the competitive trenches of Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Google and so on. I’m not so sure. I wish I were.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Partners make investment decisions. Already invested in one of my key competitors?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. Over the last few weeks, the Real Ventures team has met with easily 50 companies. Here they are: DO.

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JUNE 13, 2011

This version has some additional details on a portfolio company I’ve invested in, which are disclosed below. No private head nods are given to small startup companies to help them prepare. Any company who develops products reliant on iOS spends weeks crapping their pants before WWDC. It’s madness. And on and on.

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JUNE 6, 2012

This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet. ” That is why Hulu has invested so much in building its Hulu Plus subscription service. The company started out in South Korea by making South Korean drama available on the Internet. A bit easier of a leap for bloggers, Tweeters, Quora contributors.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. companies versus the Web 1.0

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MAY 22, 2010

One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. With Huddle, you can manage people, projects and information inside and outside your company, securely.&#. I always worry about companies that spread themselves too broadly. And then eBay bought them for $2.6

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I applied to hundreds of jobs: low-level VC roles, startups jobs, even to big tech companies. Big companies rejected me outright or gave me a courtesy interview before rejecting me. And And after 30 years of Venture investing we still have a hard time articulating why. knew he would bring immense value to me and the company.

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OCTOBER 6, 2012

I had been trading emails & Tweets with venture capitalist John Frankel and we were to meet in person in March 2011 at SxSW to talk about Klout and other investments he had made. I had been hanging around Klout for a year and many of my friends had angel funded the company and were champions. 39:15 Why did you invest in Klout?

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