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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 I have seen really great product people espouse the death of the business plan. This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2010
For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. A bank can help you balance fund raising with running your company. They have relationships that are hard for entrepreneurs to build.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 5, 2010
The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person.
InfoChachkie
MAY 16, 2011
As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”. Fallacy: Such abstract extrapolations are meaningless.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 13, 2011
I funded them 8 weeks later. I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. I wrote the summary notes in this blog post.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Running up big losses or trying to grow extraordinarily fast through paid marketing initiatives that have long payback periods will be the kiss of death for you.
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