thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

The best VCs are the ones that balance their optimism, vision and enthusiasm for startups with realism based on very real constraints (the primary one being his/her own time, but also includes market development and exit timing). As an entrepreneur at heart, I often innately grasp the potential of entrepreneurs and ideas that I meet with.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

It’s no coincidence we designed 500 Startups with these evolutions in mind, altho none of the required strategies have been easy to execute and we are still refining our approach. In short, we were a lot more geeky than the previous generation of fund managers , and we started blogging a lot about tech startups and best practices.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2011

He recently founded The Startup Centre , an India-based accelerator for early stage start-ups, and also a hub for initiatives related to tech, design and entrepreneurship. I came back to India , in 2004. It’s a dramatic shift from how things were in 2004. Penn-Olson is a Young Upstarts content partner.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. Reid Hoffman. Reid Hoffman.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Now, 150 days after October 7th, the Israeli startup ecosystem is once again in a tough spot. Creating companies, raising funding, completing multi million M&A deals.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

For example, digital startups are more likely to secure funding if someone on their founding team holds a doctoral degree. When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). Yet they incentive people to donate, even in the early stages of a campaign.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 15, 2013

At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. March 8, 2012.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

It’s been about a year since I started working on Hustle Fund with my business partner Eric Bahn. 1) It is absolutely the best job in the world for me. I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

It’s been about a year since I started working on Hustle Fund with my business partner Eric Bahn. 1) It is absolutely the best job in the world for me. I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

According to a 2003-2004 U.S. We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). My partner John Frankel has a strong interest in architectural design, which the office also incorporates. Our portfolio company Hashable has a popular pullup bar.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

In the first of a three part series on early stage business investment, we asked serial entrepreneur and investor Josh Comrie what three key things New Zealand entrepreneurs must get better at when it comes to seeking angel investment. So, I went deep (currently sitting at 26 different early-stage ventures). The Rolodex.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2009

  In typical startup fashion, they launched a product, got a number of users, and then iterated several times to improve the service.    Take a look at this post from April 2004 titled What Aisle, What Shelf.   The post Positioning and pitch decks for startups appeared first on BeyondVC. . 

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to the 2019 Annual European Venture Report by PitchBook , European startups raised €32.4 The definition of “startup” varies as Snap and Slack for example are publicly traded companies. For the purposes of this post, startups are companies started post financial crisis (since 2008), either private or public.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Although these types of notes are relatively easy and cheap to form, many have argued that these types of vehicles are not startup-friendly for a variety of reasons, which we’ll explain below.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make. Are you working on a startup? In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Some startups are destined for failure. Whats This? By Lauren Drell 2013-06-10 14:46:07 UTC.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in early 2017, I worked with ABANA (network of financial professionals with ties to the Middle East/North Africa); Harvard Arab Alumni Association ; and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY (which I founded) to launch an annual Tech Summit in New York focused on the Middle East/North Africa region (“MENA”). Apply here.

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