Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture. I run the recruiting process for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I introduced him to my partners who liked him.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

portfolios. I’m not even talking about your 12-page Powerpoint presentation that you need to raise venture capital or to talk with potential biz dev partners. ’ Our Net Income will be $40 million.&#. 66% Net Operating Margins? and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!,

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. Welcome to our annual boldstart recap and enterprise predictions letter. First check to Series B?—?congrats

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. The following information is based on companies funded by us and/or our capital partners: The average most recent monthly revenue is $331,229.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2012

Usually it’s on behalf of a portfolio company. After all, if your VCs won’t help you get access to potential buyers or business development partners – what will they do? They think they’re doing the startup a favor by casting a wide net to VCs. Helping with a Sales Lead. I do this often.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. In fact, if you add the capital flows of the past ten years, there have been just shy of $50 billion in net cash outlays.

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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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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. They may decide to acquire the startup in order to hire the team for another project in their portfolio. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. Could your startup be the next one?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The value proposition is a short statement that clearly communicates the target customer, the customer’s problem and the pain that it causes, the unique solution that addresses this problem, and the net benefit of this solution (value derived versus relative cost) from the customer's perspective. Participation.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

See below for a good description of what we like to see in deals at Forward Partners and what makes us different from other VCs. An interview with Nic Brisbourne, Forward Partners. The industry classic is NPS – the Net Promoter Score; and we encourage all our companies to track that as soon as they can. What are your benchmarks?

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

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. Hunter is a partner at Homebrew and previously led consumer product management at YouTube. Hunter Walk.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

While general impact investing is becoming more mainstream for high net worth individuals and institutions, gender lens investing has not benefitted from the same level of traction in the private equity and venture capital space. There is also much progress to be made in the standardization of gender lens investment criteria.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. Disclosure: Graphite Financial is a spinoff of ff Venture Capital , where I was formerly a Partner. Guest contributed to Techcrunch.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Earlier this year, my partners and I at NextView invested in Boston-based Marlo to help address this work meeting suckiness. Starting with the notion that you can’t fix what you don’t measure, Marlo captures anonymous micro-feedback after each meeting to calculate a Net Meeting Score. Meetings take people away from doing real work.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

The majority had dedicated more time to guiding the portfolio companies through the pandemic. . Kent Bennett from Bessemer Venture Partners spoke to this initial slow down: “ We couldn’t do anything until we understood the new normal. VCs have sourced from known founders and trusted networks to curb risk.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

One of the earliest things we did at NextView when my partners and I started working together was go away as a team to the New Hampshire mountains. It’s commonly said that the biggest risk facing a new VC firm is disharmony among the partners. OUR PORTFOLIO. I’ve done little portfolio overviews from time to time.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

million households in the US with a net worth of $1 million or more. To succeed in the space, angels must have a high risk tolerance, a large bank account to weather losses, and most important, a diverse enough portfolio to handle losing money on most of your investments. Angel Investment Activity, 2002-2013.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 17, 2019

This will help you to build your portfolio of work while actually making a bit of passive income. When your portfolio is bigger, branch from online platforms and launch your own writing agency website. You can net anywhere from $40 to $500 per article, depending on word count and data needed to meet your new clients’ needs.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 22, 2019

Investment firms are staffed with analysts, partners, and others to ensure deals are soundly vetted. Venture capitalists act as limited partners, providing help to build successful companies in a market they have deemed has potential. Understanding the differences is vital to making the right choice. Venture Capitalist Firms.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2016

Building on his success, Chande went on to co-found Clearbell Capital in 2013, which has now grown to a small but perfectly formed team of around 25 employees, as well as five partners – including the senior partner Manish Chande himself. 40% of their portfolio is office properties, with 19% industrial buildings.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2014

Rob Go partner at Boston early stage VC NextView Ventures wrote earlier this week about seed investing in the US: The challenge for those in the market of seed investing is that the barriers to entry in seed are relatively low. Work with your portfolio to improve outcomes. Have the courage to invest early. Startup general interest'

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

PROs of taking his angel money are the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. CONS of an investment from a Super Angel include potential lack of “value add” because his time is spread so thin amongst many portfolio companies.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 29, 2022

We were fortunate to include him as an advisor to our portfolio during early Homebrew investments, and he eventually crossed over to venture himself, before stepping back to focus on his own health. It’s that effort I wanted to focus on in this Five Questions interview. What prompted you to start talking more publicly?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2011

Founded less than two years ago by Internet entrepreneur and former model/actor Keith Britton and his partner actress Zoe Saldana , MyFDB allows users to freely browse credited magazine covers, editorials, and ad campaigns, as well as search credited people and company profiles. Who says technology isn’t fashionable?

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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 .

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 23, 2015

Well here’s a safety net: if you work hard and do right by any company we’ve funded we’ll ALWAYS have your back. If for some reason the gig wasn’t a great fit for you, we’ll work our butts off finding you another opportunity in our portfolio – or beyond.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to be a Partner at two different VC firms over the past 9 years, and we’ve grown AUM 10X both times. Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. . The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. Lastly, gather feedback.

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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.

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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?” We see our potential coinvestors in four primary buckets: 1) HOF Capital ’s own limited partners. Fundraising is burdensome.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

While it may make sense to offer very slight adjustments for favorable payment terms and one time revenue, net additions to MRR should dominate the sales rep’s thoughts. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Portfolio. (3). The reps’ top 3 priorities should be (i) MRR, (ii) MRR, and (iii) MRR.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

My partners and I at NextView talk a lot about how fundraising is about finding the true believers rather than convincing the skeptics. The energy that it takes persuading someone who starts with a bias not to invest is much better suited searching for additional prospects who want to believe in what you’re building.

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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. You’re abandoned by partners you once relied upon. #5 – Teaching.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 20, 2017

I’ve seen and heard of enough cases of when founders didn’t do their homework and ended up committing themselves to an investor relationship that was in some cases either a drag on the company or the board dynamics, or best case a net neutral. Every partner/firm will have at least a few good references they can offer up.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 4, 2014

Part of our presentation will be portfolio financials, which, because we’re relatively new, aren’t exceptionally volatile (LP speak: most of our investments are still carried at original value since no additional fundraising has occurred). high net worth individuals. family offices. other venture/private equity shops.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

PROs of taking his angel money are the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. CONS of an investment from a Super Angel include potential lack of “value add” because his time is spread so thin amongst many portfolio companies.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 13, 2012

My favourite story about Chris is that in the early days of Lyst he hustled his way into a relationship with Net-a-Porter by becoming a menswear model. Lyst’s roster of partners reads like a who’s who of the fashion world including big names for design and retail like Gucci, McQueen, Net-a-Porter, Neiman Marcus and Barneys.

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