Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands.

IPO 236

IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. 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. 1) Manage the firm .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2013

I know I''m paid to take risk and to make a commensurate return for taking that risk, but every moment of struggle from any one of my portfolio companies is like death by 1000 cuts multiplied by all of the individual investors in my fund. Fred Wilson took about the same amount of time before he became a partner.

Venture Capital 167

Venture Capital Early Stage Portfolio Private Equity 167

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The distribution of investors should mirrorthe distribution of startups, which has the usual power law dropoff.So If we assumethe average startup runs for 6 years and a partner can bear to beon 12 boards at once, then a VC fund can do 2 series A deals perpartner per year. The stickingpoint is board seats.

Startup 93

Startup Valuation Non-Compete Deal Flow 93

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. I think there are some real virtues to that, however, when I talk to my business partner, Ishan [Sachdev], about it, I use a slightly different metaphor: I talk about Jiro [Ono], Nobu [Matsuhisa], and Benihana. On Sushi and VC.

Silicon Valley 88

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

For about the past year my partners have been pushing me to write up some thoughts on AdTech investing. “We’re not AdTech investors,&# I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.&# And for a while that worked pretty well. They are: Scale.

Disintermediation 82

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 82

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

And those exits would be roughly 10% of the portfolio--about 3 out of every 30ish deals. Distributions can actually be drawn out over an extended period of time, but for the purposes of this exercise, I just kept the fund to 11 years. So, whether you're doing Seed, Series A, or Series B, each round would get its net 25% to LPs, no?

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation IRR Valuation 60

David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

To quote my Partner John Frankel , traditional money managers are great at managing your money until there is none left. Teten : I’m not sure I agree, as inevitably some people will look like geniuses in a random distribution of outcomes. Chernick : However, net alpha is negative for asset allocators. Chernick: Exactly.

Software Review 114

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Portfolio 114

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

For about the past year my partners have been pushing me to write up some thoughts on AdTech investing. “We’re not AdTech investors,” I’d push back, “we just have a bunch of companies in the portfolio that are working in and around online advertising.” ” And for a while that worked pretty well.

Disintermediation 48

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 48

Jason Ball

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Delticom – online tire sales (yes, tires) €200M Revenues, €53M gross profit, €15M Ebitda, €10M net profit. games, community based 1000 distribution partners TV partnerships with rev. Zed- entertainment ( [link] ). Started off as mobile content player, expanded into everything – including tv.

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital Europe .Net Revenue 28

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar? Relationships.

Oregon 60

Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Initial plans are to produce three main lines of beer. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

Oregon 24

Oregon Jordan Software Review Distribution 24

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. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Why Register? Personalize your own news page.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” . How do we reconcile these two sets of data?

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Founder Technical Cofounder Technical Review 78

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Brazil is Israel’s largest trade partner in Latin America. Gordonsville, Virginia-based PBM manufactures and distributes over-the-counter store-brand infant formula and baby foods sold by retailers in the mass, club, grocery and drug channels in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

OTC 68

OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

I’m your host, Marcus, and today we’re talking to Josh Breinlinger, who currently works as a senior associate at Sigma Partners, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park. Shortly after that, I was approached by Sigma Partners to join the team and help them find other great startups. . Josh: Thanks for having me. Marcus: Okay.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco Boston 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. Most law firms simply use the last names of the originating partners as the name of the company. Image Credit: Andrew Greer.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. LIMITED PARTNERS (LPS). Achieving profitability is the most liberating action a startup can accomplish.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

It is known that for any portfolio of startups, the returns follow a power law. For most people the utility of going from a net worth of 100k to a few millions is huge. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is 3x cash on cash.

Silicon Valley 73

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Stock Options Vesting 73

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Unlike traditional FLASH we can put 4 bits of information in a single cell, and we produce memory product in sizes optimized for content distribution, creating the LOWERS cost content mobile Content distribution medium available today. TriPlay operates through its TriPlay.com service and partners with leading operators.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. TodaCell is a Managed Premium Mobile Ad Network established in 2007.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103