Angel & VC Financing
Hey all,
I’m at Startonomics today, put on by Dealmaker Media. I’ll be posting updates to this over the course of the day.
Live stream is here:
My notes and editorial comments are in [square brackets.]
These are DRAFT NOTES. Better versions coming after the conference, complete with images.
MORNING SESSION:
Dave McClure, 500 hats
Metrics
ultimately, lead through to sale [...]
Javier, thank you for recognizing businesses like Mr. Gianforte’s that are “return leaders“. It is too easy these days to continue to buy the “traffic first, monetization second” crap that continues to be perpetuated (and which is really only applicable to about 0.0001% of the businesses out there.)
Greg, I’m glad to see that you [...]
Here are two interesting articles: one from Glenn Kelman, and a follow on from Guy Kawasaki on why serial entrepreneurs might not in fact be the best bet for funders. Interesting perspectives and I recognize some of Guy’s cautions from my own experience.
Worth reading both articles.
This post at VC Confidential contains some fantastic quotes. I have excerpted a few of my favourites.
“The trouble with the first time entrepreneur is that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. After a failure he does know what he doesn’t know and can beat the hell out of people who [...]
I have to duplicate this entire post here. It’s brilliant. Thanks Seth for the post. I filed this under Business AND Life Lessons.
The best time to start is when you’ve got enough money in the bank to support all contingencies.
The best time to start is when the competition is far behind in technology, sophistication and [...]
Many of you know that I was on the selection committee for “Why Office 2.0 Matters” - a one day conference being organized by the Dealmaker Media team in SF. The one day session will look at 32 of the most promising companies emerging in the Office-productivity-on-the-web category.
As part of the run-up to the conference, [...]
On Monday, March 26th, 2007, Bob Chaworth-Musters and his team will once again be offering their Investor Ready 101 course, a fantastic day of coaching for young companies to learn how to prepare their investor pitches. This is a lead-in to the Angel Forum that will be held on April 24th, 2007.
At the Angel forum, [...]
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Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco:
[My notes and analysis are in these square brackets.]
Disruption Opportunity: Venture Capital: Roger McNamee (private equity) and Ram Shiram (seed investing)
Shiram: I DO believe that it’s cheap to start a company; it is hard to find talent though.
Content companies are very hard [...]
This is without a doubt the best business movie of the year for its content. And it is probably one of my favourite movies of the year for its film quality as well. This movie is BRILLIANT.
It is the true story of a men’s brogue shoe factory in Northamptonshire, England that in order to [...]
