KMR - 25.07.12 22:03 weitverbreitete Meinung bei sehr jungen Unternehmern ist, dass sie selbst dann noch die Kontrolle über ihr Unternehmen haben, wenn sie durch Venture Capitalists finanziert worden sind. Bei älteren Unternehmern herrscht die umgekehrte Sichtweise vor: als Geldgeber sitze der VC immer am längeren Hebel und damit kontrolliere er das Start-up, heisst... mehr bei idee.vc

KMR - 03.05.12 13:41 Joshua Kushner was in Mexico in April for a family Passover trip, up late in his hotel room reading The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s biography of New York City’s master builder, Robert Moses, when the text message arrived from an insider. Mark Zuckerberg had just scooped up the mobile photo app Instagram for $1 billion in cash and Facebook stock. mehr bei forbes.com

KMR - 10.04.12 13:27 Immer wieder erzählen mir Gründer, dass sie “so richtig loslegen” wollen, wenn sie sich eine Finanzierung besorgt haben. Diese Einstellung kenne ich gut, denn so habe ich früher auch gedacht. Das Ganze hat nur einen Haken: ein Investor will nicht VOR sondern IN ein(em) laufenden Business einsteigen. mehr bei idee.vc

KMR - 11.03.12 18:59 In discussing how he advises companies around the lean model, McClure was candid on the panel: "Hate is closer to love than indifference—you can't iterate around indifference, but you can around hate." If customers care enough to hate your product, you can change it, and McClure and Ries agreed that a lack of feedback was a sure sign a company is... mehr bei inc.com

worldspy - 30.11.11 12:51 Some of Europe's leading investors gathered in Italy last week to discuss the problems and opportunities faced by startups across the continent. But what did they actually think? And what does it mean? mehr bei gigaom.com

KMR - 28.11.11 13:41 If you generally watch the market in the venture capital space as I do, there's one thing you'll inevitably run across again and again. It's the need for speed! I was reminded of this again when reading about how Mike Cassidy does things. Everything is focused on speed. Get shit done fast. If it can't get done fast, skip it. mehr bei babblingvc.typepad.com

KMR - 09.11.11 09:33 I co-founded a company, Plumtree, that raised seed capital from Sequoia. Kirill, Joe and I closed the round, walked out to an ATM to check our balance, and began laughing hysterically.

Things went downhill from there. A co-founder left. Nobody bought the product. And we ran out of money. mehr bei blog.redfin.com

worldspy - 23.10.11 18:13 Steve Anderson's Baseline Ventures has a portfolio that includes Instagram, Heroku, and Weebly. Earlier this month, Baseline was part of a $1-million seed round in Crashlytics. In this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon, Anderson discusses investing in Instagram and what led him to become Baseline's founder in 2006. mehr bei techcrunch.com

KMR - 03.10.11 11:17 After backing out of a new funding round for Airbnb, a former Facebook employee and current venture capitalist says he's back in, following an embarrassing leaked e-mail involving the deal.
On Saturday, an e-mail from former Facebooker Chamath Palihapitiya to Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky appeared on All Things D after being leaked to... mehr bei news.cnet.com

KMR - 20.08.11 21:01 Whenever I’m about to make a new investment, I always think about the 2×2 matrix I learned from Andy Rachleff, a former partner at Benchmark Capital.

The idea is that if you make a new venture investment (or start a company), you can either be “right” or “wrong” and you can either be “consensus” (following the crowd) or “non-consensus. mehr bei techcrunch.com