David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

My strength was not in finance, so one of the first things I did was hire someone to handle the books and keep me on a solid financial path, so I could focus on running my business. I started Patch Homes last year as I saw many homeowners who had valuable homes, but had little to no savings or money for their day to day finances.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

In general, these investments were rarely competitive at the time of their first financing. When Union Square Ventures’ 2004 fund was on fire, Fred and Brad raised their next fund at the same size. If you look at the Founder Collective portfolio , you’ll see many well-recognized companies that they invested in at the very first round.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. In fact, Wilson Sonsini will close financings for startups using Docs for their seed rounds but you must become a client of the firms. Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). The more support you have from everyone to experimentation – IT, legal, finance, C-level people – the faster you can experiment. These are four cases when data-driven approach kicked traditional thinking in the butt, hard. So this is the past.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. So, you know, Brian did not need someone to run finance in it cuz he liked finance in it. Whereas I have members of the COO Alliance that two of their core areas that they run are finance in it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. And FWIW, the final of my first four investments, all from this same fund, was, GumGum who recently announced it closed $75 million in financing led by Goldman Sachs. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software. The virtue of going long.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. Many of these now-trendy Micro-VC funds began as individual angel investors who gradually grew up and started small funds (myself included).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. But the most interesting is that all of his stories involved entrepreneurship. It’s part of what makes him so likable. Total raised: $22mm.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2010

This includes matters of personnel, matters of financing, matters of product strategy, matters of goal sizing, matters of marketing. Listen to how Robin owned delivering results: In 2004, we raised our last round of VC money led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson…and Google, one of our great colleagues. Does the CEO know what to do?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash, a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital. TripAdvisor And Expedia: From $4 million invested to $4 billion in value . Scaling Lesson 2: Maintain a Sense of Urgency.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. In finance there’s a concept called an embedded option… in short, beyond the baseline value of a bond or other security you also ascribe an additional bucket of value to something triggered by future events.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We led a $7m financing in the leader in digital dog boarding that connects dog owners with approved, reviewed, and insured sitters. Seth and I worked together on ServiceMagic in the 1999 – 2004 time frame (IAC acquired it in 2004 for $180m) so we had a deep understanding of how a heavily metric-based buy/sell marketplace worked.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Venture Financings we Discussed. When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 18, 2019

By LAURA LOREK, publisher of Silicon Hills News In 2004, at the University of Texas at Austin, Denis Ignatovich and Grant Passmore met and became roommates soon after. Passmore received a bachelor’s in mathematics and Ignatovich received his degree in computer science and finance. “We We spent a […].

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise. It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

This also comes off its success in selling off previous SOHO developments – Central, Singapore’s first SOHO development in 2004, as well as The Tennery in Upper Bukit Timah and The Cape located at Amber Road. Far East SOHO intends to attract creative individuals to its new developments and build similar communities.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 24, 2014

When Google went public in August of 2004 one of the first things I did with my employee grants was sell enough to pay off my student loans. It’s for reasons like these that I support getting startup founders some liquidity during their company’s first few years, perhaps as early as Series A financing when appropriate.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 21, 2014

When I started blogging in 2004, it was all about transparency. And if you want to really understand transparency, look at Rand Fishkin’s epic post on Moz’s $18 Million Venture Financing in 2012. Authenticity has once again become a trendy word. Fred Wilson led the way and I happily followed. Now that’s transparency.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2013

by Dean Zerbe, alliantgroup National Managing Director, and former Senior Counsel to the Senate Finance Committee. Senate Committee on Finance. When it comes to U.S. Good News for Startups. economic growth and job creation, by allowing them to take advantage of the successful Research and Development (R&D) tax credit.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. Finance Jobs |. Personal Finance. FINS: Finance, IT jobs, Sales jobs. » More.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

I remember when, in a period of about six months, the ceiling on seed financings vanished. Suddenly every company was raising a seed financing of at least $5m, regardless of the experience of the team. By 2002 investments at the seed level had evaporated (there were almost no seed financings happening).

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Genuine VC

MARCH 8, 2012

When I first started in the VC business in 2004, I usually shared some reactions with entrepreneurs whenever we passed on pursuing an investment, but I admittedly erred towards communicating generic thoughts that were fairly non-specific but perhaps mildly helpful.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 30, 2019

In 2004, Bevan bought 10 acres property in Napa Valley’s Sonoma County. But, 2004 was not his break, not until in 2013 when he got his first 100-point Robert Parker score for his Cabernet Sauvignon in 2011. Live Oak Banks is one of the banks which offers financing solutions for wineries and help them to grow.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009. or would he have been convinced to take a financing round? Companies going for the long ball aren't discovered--they're juiced up to go for the homerun, with financing. Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

That blog post – which turned into one of my most read posts ever – grew out of a study done by Correlation Ventures showing the distribution of outcomes across over 21,000 financings during the years 2004-2013 as well as some of my own observations. And only about 4% produce a return of greater than 10x. Pretty humbling.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some real-life examples of this include: Martha Stewart, whose company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, suffered and never fully recovered after she was found guilty in 2004 of charges related to insider trading. Your finances and brand reputation may soar one year, struggle the next, and then make strides again after that.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the rise of pre-seed rounds, but the strongest have been the frothy late-stage financing market, coupled with both the scaling-up of some of the early winners in the institutional seed ecosystem and the scaling-down of some larger funds that retrenched after the financial crisis.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Coninsurance plans require the patient to pay a percentage (usually 10-30%) of the healthcare costs up to the deductible limit. Also like high deductibles, coinsurance usage in on the rise.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2009

The financing round – lay out the dollars you are asking for, how it will be used, and how long the cash will last (1 slide).   Take a look at this post from April 2004 titled What Aisle, What Shelf.   One other point that I want to highlight is that how you position your business is key. 

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 25, 2003

If you assume a 2004 IPO for Google and Salesforce.com, both would have taken 5 years from their first round of venture capital. If you look at the historical data, subtracting out the bubble period, it traditionally took 4-6 years of development from the first round of venture financing for a company to go public.

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Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. In finance there’s a concept called an embedded option… in short, beyond the baseline value of a bond or other security you also ascribe an additional bucket of value to something triggered by future events.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2011

As a Brooklyn native who has never lived outside the five boroughs—and someone who left Big Finance—I feel a special kind of pride over what’s gone on here in the last six+ years. There isn’t a single person in the NYC that is more excited than I am about how far we’ve come.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their financing decks. 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. MYTH : The startup financing process is about one thing — money.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2019

TorFX was founded in 2004. World First began in 2004 with its founders’ desire to give customers an alternative to big banks when it comes to money transfers. There are no transfer fees for sending 10,000 AUD to the UK. Also, the transfer time is just one to two days. GBP on their end.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

Even after the worst period for VC in history—VC funds were back to market in 2004, no more than four years after the crash, right in line with the historical pace to get back at the game of investing. It was super hard to get any kind of financing before, and it will remain so. The incentive is too strong. You should be all good.

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