Tag: Entrepreneur
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
It may be tough times in startupland, but one area is bucking the trend: seed stage. Median pre-money valuations are up 33% year over year, according to a report released yesterday by Pitchbook: Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Seed is my playground. And seed investors are wise to continue…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Money, Silicon Valley, Startups, Stock Market, Stocks, Tech, Venture Capital+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
Over $500 billion in venture capital is sitting on the sidelines, according to a report that broke this morning in The Wall Street Journal: Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Across the market, fewer deals are getting done. Deals were down 24% in the second quarter, per Pitchbook. That likely…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
I had wandered into a foreign land. The people spoke a strange tongue…CAC, LTV, SMB. How could I join their tribe and learn their ways? I consulted the oracle: Google. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! The world of startups has a language all its own. When I started angel…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Money, Silicon Valley, Small Business, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
Exciting news out this week as legendary venture firm Sequoia Capital comes to NYC. Its new offices near Union Square are the firm’s first American branch outside the Bay Area. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From The Information: Sequoia Capital, the Menlo Park, Calif.–based venture capital firm known for…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Manhattan, New York, New York City, NJ, NYC, Startups, VC, Venture Capital+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
You have an amazing idea. But can you make it a reality? That’s the question facing a lot of non-technical startup founders. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! I often meet with entrepreneurs with amazing ideas. They want to raise capital to build their product. But this isn’t how venture…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
Every morning for the last couple of months, I see the same thing: fewer deals in my inbox. So it’s no surprise that new data from Pitchbook show a drop in seed funding for the second quarter: Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From an analysis of the data that…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Bay Area, Entrepreneur, Finance, Founders, Investing, Money, NYC, Small Business, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
Some day, I want to look up at a big billboard in Times Square and say, “I knew that company when it was three people. And I saw what it could be.” But how do I get there? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! I’ve been investing in early stage…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Angel Investing, Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Silicon Valley, Small Business, Software, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
You did it! You closed a big funding round! Time to pop the champagne! But you still have one little problem: what are these pesky investor updates? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! If there’s one thing that really confuses founders I meet, it’s investor updates. Many big investors require…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Entrepreneur, Finance, Founders, Investing, Investors, Money, Paul Graham, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
+
+
+
+
+
+
A nice young man contacted me recently with an investment opportunity: a nude resort in Mexico. I declined. But not for the reason you might think. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Are You a Venture Scale Business? My decision wasn’t a moral one. I passed because this is not…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Money, SaaS, Small Business, Startups, Stock Market, Stocks, Tech, Venture Capital+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
-
They were the best and brightest young engineers American could produce. But they had one problem: their boss was a tyrant. Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory founder William Shockley shouted at his talented engineers, recorded all phone calls, and even demanded they take lie detector tests. All refused. Instead, they did something…
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Electronics, Entrepreneur, Finance, History, Investing, Money, Semiconductors, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Tremendous 