YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Fundraising is arguably the most important issue for any entrepreneur. Unless you’re a serial entrepreneur who has started and sold companies in the past. Asif Khan founded Caremerge in 2012 and recently received multi-million dollars in funding, Asif Khan has over 20 years of experience in technology.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Also portfolio management strategy has shifted a bit in recent years, and many large investors now evaluate at all risky assets together (US tech IPOs, Brazilian bonds, Chinese private equity, etc) rather than making discrete allocations to each bucket. . Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Read More ».

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. In that context, I offer you my latest collection of popular investor-to-entrepreneur terms and concepts. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. 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”). Here again, the entrepreneur will be the one hurt most, by having fewer funding sources to access.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 30, 2019

We raised our first fund in summer 2012. It was a $15m early-stage fund that we invested in 20 portfolio companies over the course of two and a half years. We’re now seven years in and the portfolio is maturing. I plotted the return multiples (as of June 30, 2019) for all 20 portfolio companies in the chart below.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Typically it’s when Cambridge Associates releases their benchmark data on the VC asset class ( here’s a 2010 example article from TechCrunch ) or an organization like the Kauffman Foundation publishes a white paper ( a 2012 example article from Business Insider here ). Even if you’re top decile for your vintage year (e.g.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

However, there is actually much more to Gust than is apparent on the surface, or even from the viewpoint of a current user (either entrepreneur or investor). This is a completely insane and complex vision (but what the heck, we’re entrepreneurs!)

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do? If you are an entrepreneur looking for an open problem to solve, look no further. Social Contacts.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

I hate indulging in wanton portfolio self-promotion, but my partners & I are incredibly excited about these companies and will undoubtedly continue to make more investments in this vein. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? Read More ».

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Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

We raised our first fund in summer 2012. No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company. To us, these are entrepreneurs who will stop at nothing to solve a deep pain point that they know well.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. As entrepreneurs, Tushar and I immediately knew that when product-market fit hits you in the head, you jump on it. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly. Our Story The two of us met at NYU almost 10 years ago. Factom, Inc.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although Sharktank has been running reruns on Fridays the last few weeks, the show ran a Sharktank 2012 Holiday special on Tuesday night. Astonishingly, the entrepreneurs took the deal. This was a crazy deal for the entrepreneurs to take. The entrepreneurs did say that they wanted the business expertise of one of the sharks.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. Each of Feenix’s portfolio companies receives an investment in debt or equity and utilizes a subsidiary of Feenix as its credit card payment processor (“Feenix Payment Systems”). 10% of Feenix’s portfolio companies have received VC equity prior to their financing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner – [link]. 4 Pieces Of Practical Advice for Women Entrepreneurs – [link]. 4 Pieces Of Practical Advice for Women Entrepreneurs – [link]. Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner – [link]. – [link]. Staffing your startup?

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 31, 2024

Since then, I’ve received 200+ inbound leads (and counting). Have backed close to 20 emerging GP's over the past 5 yrs & looking to add 3-4 more to the portfolio this year. Investing felt very easy during that time; investment pacing, portfolio construction and follow-on decisions didn’t seem to matter.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

In all four countries we met passionate entrepreneurs who were eager to discuss their exciting startups, as well as angel investors looking to support them. The following day, I delivered a four hour workshop on capital sources and pitch strategies for fifteen entrepreneurs in the Propel program.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 31, 2018

Since 2012, we have made over 40 investments and have been busy building our fund, expanding and deepening our network, and most gratifyingly, working with our portfolio companies in their pursuit to transform their industries and the world. Executing projects of your own direction that help Version One and/or our portfolio companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. Also, since most funds are 10-year funds there will be pressure in 2012 for this fund to start exiting its investments and return money to its shareholders.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Thursday, August 9th, 2012. The fund views its portfolio startups as fulfilling one of the three layers of the “Big Data stack”: 1. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. Founder Stories) Aereos Chet Kanojia Urges Entrepreneurs To "Go For The Difficult Problems" [TCTV]. © 2012 AOL Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Ask other portfolio companies how your VC acted when / if they got in a cash pinch. Better that you know early.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). Steve Silbulkin, CEO Agronomic Technology Group ]: “An entrepreneur must understand if there is a market opportunity. Cayuga Venture Fund recently closed an investment in a company called Agronomic Technology Corp (ATC).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Knowing how to negotiate is the very essence of being a successful entrepreneur. Asif Khan founded Caremerge in 2012 and recently received multi-million dollars in funding, Asif Khan has over 20 years of experience in technology. by Asif Khan, CEO of Caremerge.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Monday, January 16, 2012. Portfolio. (3). ▼ 2012. (1). Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. BlablaCar - Travel Revolution. Europe Consumer. (1). Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6).

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

April 27, 2012. We love meeting entrepreneurs who take this blank canvas approach when thinking about disrupting markets. My partner David recently wrote about how investors tend to bring their own inherent biases (both good and bad) into pitch meetings with entrepreneurs. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. Author howerl.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? In the mean time, best wishes for a safe, happy and healthy 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

So I started introducing him to portfolio companies. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. Much more of our fee income poured back into our community, our offices, our staff, our portfolio company – where it belongs. Watch this space.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

February 21, 2012. Our portfolio has grown to 15 companies today, the bulk of which is on the US East Coast and roughly half the companies have already progressed from the seed stage to completing Series A rounds. Just under half our portfolio is B2B in nature, slightly more than half is consumer-facing in some way. Read More ».

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This was back in January 2012, a simpler time… when there was only one kind of seed round, when Series A firms invested pre-revenue, etc. Some Series A are very active at the seed stage, with a lot of Series A rounds they lead coming from their seed portfolio (True Ventures and Accomplice are good examples of this).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Users are given virtual credits – a starting sum of $100,000 – with which they can use to build their own virtual portfolios. to simulate trades in game form. It’s not directly linked to any trading platform so trades are purely fictional, but one can use the knowledge one builds learning from the game in real life.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. Our founder, Yves Sisteron, himself was an entrepreneur earlier in his career and has been a mentor to us all at VC having backed too many billion dollar exits to name. I stayed close.

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Thursday, 8 March 2012. The greatest obstacle to starting a tech company in 2012 will be the shortage of entrepreneurial tech talent, says Andy Young, who explains why there appears such a shortage of qualified people around to help you get your idea off the ground – and what to do about it. New technology for enquiring minds.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. Coats says they each had spent more than a decade in venture investing at that time, and agreed that the process of funding new companies had become “way too time-consuming” for entrepreneurs and most VCs. Biologist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

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Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1). Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. Europe Consumer. (1). Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6). McKinsey highlights. (1). Online Gaming. (1). sales and marketing. (10). Small and medium businesses. (2). software. (10). Venture Capital. (3). Blog Archive. ► 01/15 - 01/22. (1). Raj Kapoor.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

But a couple of people replied with responses of such lack of comprehension that I thought it was worth expanding on for first-time entrepreneurs. Successful entrepreneurs achieve much through their personal leadership traits that inspire others to do great things with them – sure. Not possible. ” Or there was this one.

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99u.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Many entrepreneurs assemble a board of Advisors and then have no idea what to do with them. Some entrepreneurs explicitly state the frequency of meetings, phone calls, and possibly the number of hours expected from a committed advisor. Most entrepreneurs I know say that their "advisors" have less than a 50% success rate.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1). Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. Europe Consumer. (1). Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6). McKinsey highlights. (1). Online Gaming. (1). sales and marketing. (10). Small and medium businesses. (2). software. (10). Venture Capital. (3). Blog Archive. ► 01/15 - 01/22. (1). Raj Kapoor.

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