Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

As I reflect upon the journey’s I’ve taken as a VC since 2007 I realize that the ones I was best at – and that I enjoyed the most – are ones that began by falling in love. I write this because I know how difficult it can be to find a potential investor and to decide with whom you’d like to try to work.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. The deal was done in late 2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. As an early stage investor you’re often planning around 10x your investment at the time your write your first check so in this case you’d be going into your investment expecting an exit of $800 – $1.2

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds. 2007 was the watershed year. Why is this?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators. I’d love to get your thoughts at some point about writing for these publications vs. on your own blog.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Of the 80 companies that have completed the program since its 2007 inception, 49 have received funding, 8 have been acquired and 8 have ceased operations. Writing a book is very different from writing a blog. One, I wanted to know what it was like to write a book. There were a couple motivations.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. It's fun, I guess.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. They worry too much about missing out on a deal. I don’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this series because if you better understand how VC firms work you can better target which firms make sense for you to speak with. I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Journal or Blog – Writing about your experiences will force you to be contemplative and thoughtful. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Journal or Blog – Writing about your experiences will force you to be contemplative and thoughtful. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School. Meredith Publishing. All rights reserved.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2016

Not since the initial popularity of Twitter in 2007 has a product so befuddled people. I LOVE writing. But writing takes more time and some days I don’t have that. Today I’ve made all of them available on Snapstorms.com. I remember the same disdain from people when I started blogging or using Twitter. Why would a VC do that?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 25, 2011

He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. Mark is a UCSD graduate and writes one of the best startup blogs on the Internet. Thursday, March 31, 2011 -- startupSD: Mark Suster from Both Sides of the Table. Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Formed in 2007 by UPenn students, Nat Turner, Scott Becker, Michael Provenzano, and Zach Weinberg, in Philadelphia.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

In 2007, Sarah joined Current TV. in 2007 (and) 2008 (and I realized) there is all this online video being consumed and it''s not being consumed on Current. these guys, even in 2007, had tens of millions of views. Also, when you become super, super successful and you want to write your book, it''s helpful!".

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

Unlike an unregistered copyright, which you gain automatically by expressing an idea in written form, you cannot gain intellectual property protection by simply being the first person to describe an idea in writing. As noted in Roping In The Legal Eagles , you have the responsibility to write the layman’s description of your patent claims.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page? In 2008 I started VC blogging.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2010

To further enhance your state of denial, you write a new book entitled How the Mighty Fall and blame the previously vaunted companies for subsequently faltering. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Do you admit that you may have mistakenly analyzed the data? If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. from the Wharton School.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2010

To further enhance your state of denial, you write a new book entitled How the Mighty Fall and blame the previously vaunted companies for subsequently faltering. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Do you admit that you may have mistakenly analyzed the data? If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. Meredith Publishing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 If you invest early and then pull back in the next 3 rounds your multiples on cash invested are much higher than if you keep writing checks. VCs have different views and strategies on this.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

But when I’m looking to write my check I need to look in the eyes of the captain — the maestro who brings the whole orchestra together. I joined GRP Partners in 2007 before they raised their current fund (we closed a $200 million fund in March 2009). Great companies are comprised of great individual point people or functional leaders.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. Their first company was called Traffic.com, which they sold in March 2007 to Navteq for $180 million (not too shabby). It will be controversial – I know.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works? Another unabashed proponent of fan fiction is N.K.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack. We rode that wave through 2007, until the housing market crashed, and we had to adapt. We became friends, and found we were both very like minded, goal oriented, and had the same core values.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We had agreed to sell the company to Salesforce.com and between the offer in December 2006 and the closing March 27th, 2007 I focused exclusively on the sale to Salesforce.com. I’m normally too cool to write posts like this. I prefer to write the December 2010 post about what a great year I had.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. We make that available to our clients, including sales training, how to compete against Groupon and LivingSocial, affiliate training, copyright training, how to write up good deals, marketing, and promotions. It's similar to a franchise.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I saw VCs doing crazy things in 2007-08 when I first entered the VC market – crazy prices, limited due diligence, large funding rounds. I will write about some of these topics soon. The professor showed that there is a big increase in volume of buyers as a market peaks and a big increase in selling as the market is falling.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

We started the company in the fall of 2006, launched in 2007, and have been offering our services to all kinds of mission critical websites since then. Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time. We've grown really fast.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Today, I received this email from the BBB: We’re writing to let you know that during the past month the Reliability Report that we publish on Make It Work was accessed 6 times. 2007 Closed Complaints – 2. Great I said, but why use the BBB email address and pose as a BBB staff member if that’s the case?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es They controlled distribution to the masses.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so. So in the past we needed VC to really get a startup going. That’s awesome. We picked up activity aggressively in 2009.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

By 2007, when we started GOGII, we really wanted to break out of the mobile ecosystem, and we were one of the first five companies funded by the Kleiner Perkins iFund. Even though write once and run anywhere has been the holy grail, I think it's the false prophet. If you think that it is easy, however, you'll be disappointed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 I am not suggesting these are bad sources of capital – they are not.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. In January 2007 I had a resolution to lose weight and I didn’t want to do it through some crash diet like Atkins that I felt wasn’t sustainable for me. We’ll see. Enter Withings.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. If you get a moment, as a favor to John for having produced such wonderful notes I’d be grateful if you would check out his most excellent startup blog The X Factor. Thank you, John.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 They see how hard she does her job. They know her personally and know she cares about her constituencies even if she has to make tough trade-offs from time-to-time. Ergo I suck.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Steve Jillings: We have really big stuff coming in 2012. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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