Late last year we invested in a start-up called Everlater, which is located in Boulder, Colorado. Everlater has developed an innovative online travel journal that gives users a simple to use, rich media platform for capturing and sharing their travel experiences using text, maps, photos and video with easy sharing across social networking sites. Nate Abbott [...]
Archive for the ‘Start-Up’ Category
Mar
22
Mar
04
Five Reasons To Support Startup Visa
The Startup Visa movement showed a lot of momentum yesterday, actually trending into the top 5 on Twitter. As an entrepreneur who is working on my own startup, I’ve had the chance to meet a lot of other entrepreneurs, and I am happy with the vast support in the entrepreneur community for the Startup Visa. [...]
Feb
22
So What Is Your Start-Up Worth?
As venture capitalists, one question we get asked all the time is “How do you value a seed or early-stage company?” The truth is that there really aren’t many tools. Later-stage companies are often valued based upon metrics such as discounted cash flows and revenue or earnings multiples. The challenge is that many of the [...]
Feb
10
5 Minutes With Jerry Ropelato & Stan Bassett
Two years ago the folks at the Utah Fund of Funds introduced us to Jerry and Stan (CEO & President respectively) from TopTenReviews in Salt Lake City and were completely impressed with the amazing business they had built without raising any capital. They were looking to take the company to the next level and having [...]
Dec
07
Our Newest Investment: SendGrid
Early this summer, my partner George and I walked into the bunker at TechStars in Boulder and met with Isaac Saldana, a young entrepreneur who, along with his small team of three, has been working feverishly on creating a solution to help companies get their important emails delivered. We were instantly impressed with Isaac and [...]
Aug
18
Why I took the job instead of doing a startup
This is a guest post by Tac Anderson I have a pretty good track record for predicting what trends will take off. I also have a pretty good record for predicting which cool new digital technologies will do well on the Web. I am horrible at predicting my own future. A year ago if you [...]
Jun
30
Treat Your CEOs Like Children (Your Own)
You might get the feeling from the title of this post that you’re about to read a glib post about how VCs should treat their CEOs like kids. Just the opposite in fact. Recently, I received a phone call from one my CEOs. He had a particularly difficult problem that he was trying to sort [...]
Jun
03
TechStars: Everything That’s Great About Startups
(And Why I Love Being An Early-Stage Venture Capitalist) Yesterday, my partner George Mulhern and I spent a very long and exhilarating day at Techstars in Boulder, CO meeting with ten raw start-up teams who have been selected to participate in this year’s rigorous TechStars bootcamp. For the next three months, this very lucky group [...]
May
21
Draft The Best Available Athlete
I grew up in New York and have always loved my NY sports teams. In the NFL, it was all about the NY Giants for me. Unfortunately, during my most impressionable sports years (the 70′s), the Giants simply sucked and the Dallas Cowboys utterly dominated the NFC. As a matter of fact, I barely remember [...]
May
19
Startups: Finding Opportunity in the Economic Downturn
A little while back I wrote a post called M&A Opportunities in the Economic Downturn. It was based on information that I read in a paper published by McKinsey & Co. The paper reviewed research that McKinsey had done regarding what actions/steps companies took during the downturn, that either enabled them to accelerate their growth [...]