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Straight from the opening remarks at the NVCA AGM today, Mike Moritz and John Doerr interviewed one another on stage and discussed everything from how they snagged their wives to the dismal return outlook for VCs in Silicon Valley - if you are not one...
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In case you missed the VC panel at Software2008, here's the second part of my debrief. When asked: "How do you evaluate SaaS companies?" Sanjay from Storm Ventures responded: "robust, reliability, scalability". While Glenn from...
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In case you missed the enterprise software VC panel at Software2008, here's the debrief - part one. When asked "What's a hot?" from an investing perspective: Navin Chaddha of Mayfield immediately responded: "enterprise software...
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The quality of the companies, the quality of the attendees, the quality of the execution, it just keeps getting better. I just got back from the 2008 Venture Capital in the Rockies Conference which was held at the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek. This was the...
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Today I spent the afternoon and evening at the Second Chance Tuesday event in London. In the afternoon there was an "Early Stage Funding Workshop" for an audience of about 100 companies, which consisted of a panel discussion with entrepreneurs...
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After John Shinal and I talked in late November, we followed up with another short talk about “lessons learned” and advice for startups. This is short but contains three ideas I think are important for startups. I have run startups and I’ve worked with...
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Last week I attended the European Venture Capital Forum in Stockholm, which Microsoft co-sponsored as part of our cooperation with the worldwide VC industry. Some 300 VC's and financial advisors, mainly from Europe gathered for two days to discuss...
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About one week ago, I had the outrageous opportunity to meet Chris Liddell, Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft Corporation. Chris happened to be in Paris for a day so it was absolutely compulsory to do something about it. As a result, Julien brought...
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This morning we had nearly 180 people turning up for an event at Microsoft's London office in Cardinal Place near Victoria Station. The title of the event was "The Online Opportunity" and the intention was to bring together some of the UK's...
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Angel investing has changed for the better – for angels, VCs and entrepreneurs − claim the panelists at Churchill Club’s Angel investing forum Sept. 7 in Palo Alto. Casey McGlynn, Founder & Secretary, Life Science Angels; Chairman, Life Sciences Group...
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Pitching to investors is different than pitching to customers . Investors care about some of the same things, but not to the same depth as a customer. Investors care about management teams, competitive advantages, competition, market size, cash flow,...
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Large corporations have been investing hundreds of million dollars in data warehouses that size up to hundreds of terabytes. However, very few companies really exploit such massive sets of data to ease their decision making process. Roger Haddad, founder...
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My day-to-day work involves enhancing the most promising software startups innovating on the Microsoft stack to realize their potential. Our most precious resource to ensure we achieve this vision is the interaction with the people and infrastructure...
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Paul Graham is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Paul and Robert Morris founded Viaweb in 1995, the first online web store builder, and sold it to Yahoo in 1998. In 2005 they started Y Combinator, a seed stage investment company. I got to know...
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The success of Google has spawned over 1,000 search related startups. Search market share is dominated ( 94% ) by the big five; Google 53%, Yahoo 20%, Microsoft Live 14%, AOL 5%, and Ask 2%. That leaves 6% for everyone else. However, remember that "...