Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Family Offices (of high-net-worth individuals or families). We raised $280 million.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Instead the business press dumped on the founders for “selling out.” Many founders mentioned this as a reason not to incorporate or grow their companies in Finland. While the government says they love startups, the first thing they did this year is raise the capital gains tax.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Although some founders take venture capital in exchange for equity, that’s not the only way to do it. To learn more about the pros and cons of venture capital — and founders’ funding alternatives — I caught up with Mark McKee. Mark McKee : Most first-time founders I’ve met don’t, frankly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). billion collected in 2012. All startups always need more money. They will need more money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

Yet, I find that startup founders often fixate on one or two sources, often to the detriment of their business. If you don't know any “high net worth” individuals, use your advisors to find them. Venture capital. An investment from a venture capital firm is usually expensive, in equity and control.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Techventure 2011 – one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs organized by Asiasons WFG and presented by National Research Foundation (NRF) and Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) – will celebrate its 15th year on October 13 and 14.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

At this level, as a founder you feel SO CLOSE to profitability that many say, “I’m going to keep my costs really low this year to try and hit profitability. Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). They raised $5 million in venture capital to fund growth. Operating Costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Yet, I find that startup founders often fixate on one or two sources, often to the detriment of their business. If you don't know any “high net worth” individuals, use your advisors to find them. Venture capital. An investment from a venture capital firm is usually expensive, in equity and control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. Seed-round investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). billion collected in 2014. All startups always need more money. They will need more money.

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Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

Yet, I find that startup founders often fixate on one or two sources, often to the detriment of their business. If you don’t know any “high net worth” individuals, use your advisors to find them. Venture capital. An investment from a venture capital firm is usually expensive, in equity and control.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds. Julia Rhee , Advisor to Typhon Capital Management, observes, “You need to reverse-engineer institutions’ checkboxes.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. TSM: What is the most important thing you tell other startup founders?

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Yet, I find that startup founders often fixate on one or two sources, often to the detriment of their business. If you don't know any “high net worth” individuals, use your advisors to find them. Venture capital. An investment from a venture capital firm is usually expensive, in equity and control.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Dave Kerpen, founder and CEO of Likeable Local , just published an interview with me on Linkedin, which I’ve included below. That’s a sizeable amount, especially in comparison to the US venture capital industry, which similarly invests over $20 billion annually. It’s also a fast way to lose all your money. 1961- 1996.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The culture is driven by the 20-something irreverent founder with huge technical chops who in a “David vs. Goliath” mythology take on the titans of industry and wins. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Together, we mapped 89 companies, that collectively raised over £2 billion in venture capital across consumer experiences, enabling technologies and infrastructure. The pandemic was generally viewed to have been a net positive for the industry. Access to capital and talent remains the big barrier for growth.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number of investor classes into one. For those of you who fit that description, nice work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2017

As a VC, burn rate is one of the most discussed topics I have with teams who are pitching me for raising capital and it is one of the most common discussions points I have with founders in companies that I’ve backed. So let me walk you through the discussion points I have with founders.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. Instead of measuring success in dollars of profit, …firms focus on measuring capital efficiency. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Almost every successful company is a mixture of very hard work by the founders mixed with a pinch of luck, good fortune and perseverance. You need shots on goal as not every one will go in the back of the net. Early-stage venture capital is about extreme winners. The right number of deals will depend on your strategy.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 22, 2019

The question of venture capitalist versus angel investor often arises. Venture capital and angel investments offer excellent options to startup businesses. Most venture capital firms focus on targeted sectors of the business world, such as software, or on a specific geographical area when entertaining possible investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Net Income (Loss). Net MRR Churn %. Even if you don’t have a formal board of directors, I’d strongly recommend that founders create an informal board of advisors and run it like a formal board of directors. ff Venture Capital portfolio company. So how do you do it? Identify the metrics that matter. Gross Profit.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Instead, we are being intentional about how to support an increasing number of Black board members, founders, CEOs, teams, suppliers, and anti-racist products. Tickets are affordable and all net proceeds from the DEIS Practicum will support OHUB Foundation. It is not an opportunity for whiteness as a victim. No hashtags here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

Three important factors that founders have to consider (no matter their location) are networks, funding, and talent. Find them wherever you choose to locate – track them down, sign them up, and put them to work! Many of the challenges startups face are common no matter where the company chooses to locate.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

“It is deeply telling that the vocabulary of venture capital begins with ‘the friends and family round’,” she writes. But inequitable access to seed-stage capital is a pervasive structural issue. . In this vision, more expansive government policies and programs aren’t safety nets.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

. Techventure , one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs, is back. which celebrates the vibrant developments taking place in Asia that have helped Asian corporations take the lead and capitalize successfully in many areas of technology. Innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2019

You will face challenges and one of those could be raising capital. Options for raising that capital include: Venture capital. Venture capitalists might be inclined to invest in your startup in exchange for an equity stake if they think there’s a chance they can score a big return. But they will need convincing.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

They netted more on that deal than Fordham has in it's whole endowment (but still, go Rams!). Give them that and they'll decide on their own to be a founder. University research is a big business for many schools. On top of that, most of a school's major donors are likely to be entrepreneurs in some way.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

The net effect is powerful: it empowers all of us (no matter who we are or where we are) to learn more quickly, make better decisions, and operate more efficiently. Thus, it should come as no surprise that we are now seeing Venture Capital being disrupted by these forces as well. Today, the boom of information (i.e.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. These will inevitably have tighter ties with the university than the private, for-profit similar initiatives, e.g., those backed by Alumni Ventures Group. Founder community.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 22, 2014

AngelList makes it easier for founders to reach angels and there are hundreds of accelerators and incubators to choose from. First, there will be a consolidation in the accelerator space, with the net effect of reducing the number of available spaces for start-ups. Additionally, we need to watch out for two developments on the horizon.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

We’ve all heard the anecdotes—the famous founder who pitched 1000 investors before any of them said yes. Most founders I know who are in this mode simply haven’t done enough homework and planning on the idea. 7) Does such a model get you to a long term size that makes sense for venture capital investors (north of $100mm in revenues)?

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