Tag: Entrepreneur
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Venture capital investment in the middle of the country tripled in the last decade, according to a new report from Heartland Forward. Investment reached $55 billion by the end of 2021. We’re used to thinking of startupland as reaching a few dozen miles from San Francisco to San Jose. Maybe…
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Every now and then when I ask a founder for a demo, he can’t give me one. That’s because the product doesn’t exist. Let’s take the example of a restaurant reservation platform. Rather than building out the tech, some founders just start advertising to restaurants and diners and taking reservations.…
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I sat down to coffee and dessert with one of my founders recently. At the end, he tried to pay the tab. I had to explain to him what might be the most important rule of investing… Never Let a Founder Pay If you’re taking a founder out to coffee,…
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WeWork filed for bankruptcy on Monday. Allbirds is a penny stock. Companies like these are why I invest in pure software — only. The Penny Stock Parade WeWork peaked at a valuation of $47 billion. It was once the most valuable startup in America. Now, it’s a penny stock. The…
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Uber made its early investors billions. But some had a chance to invest early — and missed an incredible opportunity. The book Super Pumped details how some investors won the Uber deal, and how others missed out. This fascinating tale of one of the decade’s best startups taught me a…
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“Bill Gurley needed to get in on this deal. Over his decade-plus of venture investing, Gurley had watched enough startups succeed and fail to know that this one — Uber, ‘everyone’s private driver’ — was special.” Super Pumped Winning the Deal In 2010, Bill Gurley was already a one of…
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Travis Kalanick’s first company got him sued for $250 billion. Most people would’ve given up after that. But Kalanick didn’t. Super Pumped by Mike Isaac recounts Kalanick’s amazing story, all the way from his first company, Scour, to Uber. A Born Salesman Kalanick was a born salesman. Even as a…
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“One of the things with outliers is the ideas often seem completely nuts up front.” Marc Andreessen thought this couchsurfing app was crazy. Someone’s going to get murdered! A Startup Not Even a Mother Could Love Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, the Airbnb co-founders, pitched just about every investor in…
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I didn’t need the money when I started this job. So why do I invest in startups? For the last 2.5 years, I’ve spent my days meeting founders and investing in early stage tech startups. Any payday is ten years away — but the fun of angel investing goes way…
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If you’re starting a venture fund, you want to raise as much as you can, right? Not according to Founders Fund’s Brian Singerman. “Raise as small of a fund as you can in order to just crush it, because then you can write your ticket for a number of funds.…
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