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Venture Diaries: Part Three

Posted:  December 22nd, 2007
Tags:  Entrepreneurship, Splunk, Venture Capital

I’ve written previously about our experience this year raising a $25M Series C round of venture financing. Venture Diaries: Part One discusses why you want to think before you act and investigate who to target as potential investor partners. Venture Diaries: Part Two looks at how to perform your investigation. In this third […]

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Venture Diaries: Part Two

Posted:  November 26th, 2007
Tags:  Entrepreneurship, Investing, Splunk, Venture Capital

According the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), there are 798 venture capital firms managing more than $235B in the United States. These are long-term, professional investors who specialize in funding and building new, innovative companies.
So how do you figure out who to approach for funding? This is the area where I find […]

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Blowing Things Up

Posted:  October 6th, 2007
Tags:  Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Splunk, Technology Business

I’m not sure if it’s the start of a new quarter, the full moon or my two seven year old boys that have me thinking about this, but we seem to be blowing a lot of things up lately. A few examples…
1. We blew up our product development process
2. We blew up lots of our […]

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Venture Diaries: Part One

Posted:  September 3rd, 2007
Tags:  Entrepreneurship, Investing, Splunk, Technology Business, Venture Capital

A few months ago I started working on a next round of funding for our company, Splunk. As an exercise I decided to keep notes on the progress of the fund raising in hopes of looking back and perhaps sharing a thing or two with other entrepreneurs. I’ve raised a lot of venture […]

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