Up and Running

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Firstly, let me introduce myself — Libby James, Co-founder of Merchant Advice Service , we specialize in helping business owners when they have been terminated or declined card processing both of which can be common when starting up a company. Think of a rolling reserve as your safety net.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital doesn’t publish frequently, but his essays on market trends and Benchmark portfolio companies are a window into how VCs view the world and the kinds of business models that they find most interesting.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Metrics like Return on Net Assets, Return on Capital and Internal Rate of Return are the guiding stars of the board and CEO. Unfortunately as we’ve learned from recent experience, using Return on Net Assets and IRR as proxies for efficiency and execution won’t save a company when their industry encounters creative disruption.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 8, 2021

Pictured left to right: three Sputnik-backed female founders?—?Jennifer Jennifer McEwen (founder of Datum), April Dominguez and Nikki Dominguez (co-founders of Handsome) As a female-led and majority female-run VC, today and every day we celebrate women.

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Eric Friedman

MARCH 26, 2019

However it is usually met with “thanks” I have found that more times than not founders do not have an answer to this question. Founders usually have a laundry list of things they need to get done, and I say apply that to the investor to see if they can actually be helpful. It also is a net benefit to the company.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We’re a crossover fund.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” Creativity is also a must for product managers.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

After putting our family’s net worth into a spreadsheet one day, I was shocked to find out that my net worth was – $250,000. Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios. #5 – Teaching. Image Credit: Jason Bond. Thanks to Jason Bond, Jason Bond Picks ! #6

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David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most founders who are raising capital look first to traditional equity VCs. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. Attractive to founders in controversial sectors.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If you’re interested in sports betting (or adding a fresh element to your investment portfolio), Betmarkets thinks it knows how you can boost your profits. André Flórido , Betmarkets’ Co-Founder & COO, answered questions about his company, shared some book recommendations, and explained why he thinks obedience is overrated.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If you’re interested in sports betting (or adding a fresh element to your investment portfolio), Betmarkets thinks it knows how you can boost your profits. André Flórido , Betmarkets’ Co-Founder & COO of Betmarkets, answered questions about his company, shared some book recommendations and explained why he thinks obedience is overrated.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Some companies and founders refuse to serve existing customers, and are always lurching from one great idea to the next. Talking to potential customers and competitors customers.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

When I meet with other VCs, family offices, and other institutional investors, the most common question I get is: “What are the highest-potential companies in your portfolio which are raising now?” If I can reduce a portfolio company’s time burden, I create value for them. They are comfortable with others taking the lead. .

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. How do you get to that point if you have that kind of a view of the world, of founders, and of this space? On Sushi and VC. Everything we do.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . Conduct an honest self-evaluation: can you realistically raise money from institutional investors, or should you focus on high net worths/family offices? Lastly, gather feedback.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Institute includes a co-working space and accelerator (the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas), an incubator, a training group, a seed fund, and much more — all working together under the unifying, umbrella theme of entrepreneurship. I’m also executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

Many of these investors mean “series A” or “post seed” when they say “early stage” even though they will do a handful of pre-seed deals in founders they already know / successful serial entrepreneurs we’ve all heard of. The best way to assess what VCs actually like is to look at their portfolio.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 16, 2018

Many of these investors mean “series A” or “post seed” when they say “early stage” even though they will do a handful of pre-seed deals in founders they already know / successful serial entrepreneurs we’ve all heard of. The best way to assess what VCs actually like is to look at their portfolio.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

While the initial fund is $120M we will have access to ru-Net’s (the Russian LP) $700M of capital to support growth of portfolio companies and opportunistically invest at later stages where we can add value beyond capital. With RTP, I plan to help portfolio companies across the US access the fast growing emerging markets.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Why Register?

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Parekh started his career at Goldman Sachs, developing the firm’s equities business in the Middle East, with high net worth family offices and sovereign wealth funds.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

An angel investor is a high net worth individual who invests their own money into startup companies in the hopes of gaining a return on their money. I have pitched to hundreds of angel investors over the years as a result of co-founding two tech companies and raising just shy of $1M in angel capital. Tweet This Tip.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

He was president of the startup accelerator YCombinator from 2014-2019, and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which he co-founded. ER : Do you mind talking a little bit about your conversations with startups in your portfolio, people who have reached out to you for advice about how to handle a crisis like this?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research, says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. Co-founders Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge leased their startup system from a family running a German restaurant out of a former brewpub. Click To Tweet. “No

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Underaddressed market.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Mentor programs, co-working spaces and meetup events over the past few years have increased at an exciting rate. There was no Brad Pitt, broken ribs or bars of soap but The Founder’s Fight Club was just as entertaining as the Hollywood film. John Girard, Advisor, Founder, Mentor. Rodney Rumford, Co-Founder RapidEngage.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

A good example of this is Peter Boyce at General Catalyst, who seemed to be everywhere and seemed to know everyone when he was a senior at Harvard (in addition to having been a cofounder of Rough Draft Ventures, HackHarvard, and working at a USV funded startup, among other things).

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research , says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. Co-founders Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge leased their startup system from a family running a German restaurant out of a former brewpub.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

At Risk – Usually starts with a firm beginning to see challenges in large portions of its portfolio, or in keeping the partnership together, or in the viability of the firm’s core strategy as broader markets start to shift (e.g. A16Z today or Founders Fund or General Catalyst a few years ago).

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 19, 2016

7/ Net/Net: VC is a hard f **g business but simplification in press makes it seem glamorous & easy – almost swashbuckling. Fortunately Steve Schlenker, co-founder of DN Capital has captured most of them in his Quora answer to the question: How hard is it to be a venture capitalist. NotGlamorous.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

.” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. I must admit that I do also have some exceptions to this rule – LucidChart is based in Provo, UT, and Occipital is presently in Boulder, CO. I suspect this is also the case for most VCs.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

.” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. I must admit that I do also have some exceptions to this rule – LucidChart is based in Provo, UT, and Occipital is presently in Boulder, CO. I suspect this is also the case for most VCs.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

I had dinner with my good friend and Bazaarvoice co-founder, Brant Barton, on Tuesday at the new Sway in West Lake Hills (yummy) and we talked about lessons learned in angel investing. I’ve limited our net worth in startup investing to around 5% of our wealth. 5 from 4–5pm CT (you can sign up here ).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses.

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