Sentences with phrase «about venture capitalists»

There was interesting talk about venture capitalists and their role in Internet startups last week.
(As an aside, I could barely type with a straight face that part about venture capitalists waiting for the dividends.
Huffington isn't blaming the startup culture for this, though, referring to the debate that has raged over the past few years about venture capitalists and angel investors being biased against women entrepreneurs.
But the statistics about venture capitalists themselves are hard to characterize as anything but dismal.
He was careful to say he was speaking generally, and not specifically about venture capitalist Peter Thiel's funding of Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker — though the Gawker suit was the subject of the original question from Mossberg.
Now that we have defined a founder as someone who has or is starting a scalable company around solving a problem — let's talk about the venture capitalist.
You can find information about venture capitalist interest, the presence of other investors and additional information by going online.

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Investors are getting a bit wary about valuations, following a selloff in tech stocks, venture capitalist David Golden says.
And Trump's performance dismayed some prominent venture capitalists, such as Marc Andreessen, who tweeted about it:
CNN analyst Van Jones, who gained a high profile for his strong and pointed commentary during election season, will speak about the current state of affairs, as will venture capitalist and guest Shark Tank investor Chris Sacca, who has been a vocal critic of Trump since long before he came president.
What do most traditional venture capitalists say about what you do?
In the new issue of Inc., I talked to the billionaire venture capitalist about why he's been putting so much of his time and money into biotech startups, particularly those focused on health and human biology.
Brunner, who left Lunar in 1989 to become Apple's chief designer, recalls having conversations with Smith about how they spent a fair amount of their time giving counsel and strategic advice to start - up clients, almost as if they were venture capitalists.
Lunar has become a de facto venture capitalists and is about to start developing its own products to entice others.
Like Nitin Julka, Fortune talked to three dozen experts in the new startup economy — venture capitalists, recruiting specialists, and successful jungle - gym - climbing workers for tips about how to get yourself launched.
Venture capitalist Tim Draper was the sole winner of about 30,000 bitcoins in a 2014 sale.
I remember interviewing Randy Komisar, the venture capitalist, about his experiences as the CEO of a couple of gaming companies, including Lucasarts.
He introduced us to about 20 angel investors and a couple of venture capitalists.
Venture capitalist Bill Gurley is more worried about Elon Musk being «too risky» than he is about Mark Zuckerberg.
Valuations are coming down, and venture capitalists are getting more careful about where they put their money.
While venture capitalists, mutual funds and other private investors can only see upside in a zero - interest environment where growth is hard to find, public investors would be skeptical of a public Uber, Smith explains, just as they've asked tough questions about companies like Twitter and Yelp.
This is where the venture capitalists we'd invited came in: Since it's their job to bet on and invest in the future, we felt it was important to solicit these experts» perspectives about what's happening now — and what's next — in business.
Since December, venture capitalists have invested more than $ 90 million in start - ups that mix marketing and social media, writes the Wall Street Journal, but questions remain about how much social media marketing is really worth.
Not too long ago, the business world knew next to nothing about cryptocurrencies; the only way to invest in a startup in this segment was through venture capitalists and angel investors, potentially leading to your very own IPO.
Venture capitalist Josh Elman knows a thing or two about successful startups.
In addition to the nuts and bolts, instructor Chris Haroun aims to teach his students about the importance of personal connections and professional presentation — how to identify and pitch venture capitalists and communicate your ideas clearly and concisely.
Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper, meanwhile, made what might be the investment of the decade when he snapped up 30,000 of the Silk Road coins for about $ 600 each.
Everyone and their neighbor has seen The Social Network or knows of a horror story about a startup idea being co-opted by a venture capitalist or a big somebody with deeper pockets.
A venture capitalist thinks about the biggest risks for their business first.
Featuring bestselling author, venture capitalist, and serial entrepreneur Chris Haroun, this course teaches everything you need to know about how to start a business, make it profitable, and launch an...
Stone heard about the demand dividend financing structure, developed by John Kohler a former venture capitalist now with Santa Clara University, and the two agreed MMC could be a suitable test case.
Doriot died in 1987, but his ideas about venture funding can be seen to this day; Intel, Apple, and Cisco (to name a few) are some of the first companies to be funded by venture capitalists.
The success of Alkhatib's two - year - old, invite - only Middle East - centric shopping portal — which initially launched in Jordan before spreading to Saudi Arabia and elsewhere — can be attributed, in part, to his knowledge about what venture capitalists look for.
The venture capitalists I interviewed for my book Hungry Start - up Strategy: Creating New Ventures With Limited Resources and Unlimited Vision (Berrett - Koehler, 2012) made it clear that they talk to about 1,000 ventures a year and invest in one or two.
DreamIt, a start - up incubator founded in Philadelphia hosted a demo day in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday for about 250 attendees, many of them venture capitalists and angel investors looking for the next Dropbox or Scvngr.
Either way, Holmes's comment, and the conversations I've had with female venture capitalists and entrepreneurs since then, reminded me that there are a slew of terribly accomplished female entrepreneurs out there, but we don't hear much about them.
Internet entrepreneurs, Nobel laureates, Ivy League schools, textbook publishers, venture capitalists, corporate raiders, and junk - bond kings — just about everyone, it seems, is betting that the Internet plus education equals a very big sum.
Yet for those who regularly deal with young entrepreneurs, including greying venture capitalists (like Lilly, who works at Greylock) and journalists (like me), it sounds about right.
Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems who is today a prominent venture capitalist, has publically spoken about his preference for funding young entrepreneurs on multiple occasions, the post points out.
The Slavets had been downcast by the glazed stares they'd received from the venture capitalists they'd approached about their San Francisco - based company, which offered job - matching and other Web - based services to independent contractors and soloists.
Guy Kawasaki, venture capitalist and bestselling author, encouraged visitors to the site for his book about self - publishing, Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur — How to Publish a Book, to share a link to the site on Twitter or Facebook in exchange for a bundle of free materials, including a book design template.
What's most remarkable about this scene is that seven months ago, when Guru.com was a fledgling idea just out of Harvard Business School's hatchery, venture capitalists were ambivalent about it.
I thought about the trader's call when I read the news that Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who supported Donald Trump's candidacy and advised him during the post-election transition, has secretly been a citizen of New Zealand since 2011 and owns a large rural estate there.
In his book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, entrepreneur and venture capitalist Ben Horowitz writes about Bill Campbell's influence as an advisor and meAbout Hard Things, entrepreneur and venture capitalist Ben Horowitz writes about Bill Campbell's influence as an advisor and meabout Bill Campbell's influence as an advisor and mentor.
Phil Libin, venture capitalist and co-founder of Evernote, recently told «Closing Bell» that «the world is about to be re-written, and bots are going to be a big part of the future... we are going to be making products over the next few years that fit much more naturally.»
After the bubble burst in 2000, I was talking about the ideas in Good to Great with some portfolio companies of venture capitalists.
Then one of Cline's board members — a venture capitalist who also ran a SPAC — told him about CEA Acquisition, a public shell company based in Tampa that was trading on the OTC Bulletin Board.
Though the start - up has declined to offer information about its financing, its team of scientists, venture capitalists, and politicians is impressive.
The entertainer made an unusual appearance in front of venture capitalists Wednesday to talk about taking risks, thinking big, and investing in Jennifer Lopez, the brand.
Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley and his CEO coach, former venture capitalist Jerry Colonna, had a frank conversation about the challenges of running a start - up at Friday's Northside Festival.
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