Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. But we never lost the finance bug. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly. We were infatuated with tech. Factom, Inc.

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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? Fred Ehrsam , his co-founder, is also incredible.

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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. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future. Nic Perkin is the President and Co-Founder of The Receivables Exchange. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 24, 2020

Today, one of our newest portfolio companies, Cape Privacy , announced their seed fundraise in conjunction with the public launch of their privacy platform. AI has the power to solve really important problems and transform industries like healthcare and finance. You can read more details about the launch here.

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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. The two founders, Lucinda Lent and Juliet Bodystun wanted to raise $150,000 in return for 15% of the company in order to franchise their concept nationwide. Fat Ass Fudge.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. Mr. Fralic earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from St. Dave Tisch is Founder and Managing Director of TechStars in NYC and is an angel investor through the BoxGroup. Thursday, January 12, 2012. Mike Yavonditte, CEO, Hashable.

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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. There are some excellent comments, especially observations made by Vikrant Mathur, founder of iFood.tv. Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Chang Xu for her tireless effort in helping me prepare and analyze the data) If you met with LPs to raise a fund in 2009–2012 the most common refrain was, “We have too many managers and too many dollars in venture. Note that all of these names were not started in Silicon Valley. We’re trying to limit our exposure.”

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. View More in Detroit ›.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

The first was at Denver Startup Week, where we did a panel discussion with Ben Huh and Bart Lorang where we discussed the pact between CEO and Board, the pact between Founder and Investor, and how to be transparent and direct. The next day, Rand led a full day offsite for a number of CEOs in our portfolio. ” Whatever.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. We have a portfolio of more than 500 brands and 4000 products and people invite us into their lives more 1.8 to create exponential growth. Innovation sounds easy. It never is.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In this two-part guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues. In part two, we’ll discuss finances, insurance, and regulations for breweries.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

This meant: Less capital to start a company thus the rise of “micro VCs” Younger, more technical founders (not as big of a leap to take a risk on a 24-year-old when it’s $250k and not $5 million. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. Welcome to the future.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

6, 2012, 1:09 AM. |. Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, the influential advisor to dozens of startups like Dropbox and Airbnb , sent his entrepreneurs an email Wednesday afternoon cautioning them against taking "lowball offers"—in particular, he said, from Google Ventures. Our portfolio speaks for itself.". Clusterstock.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

These results were obtained after the following rounds of financing of more than 1000 technology companies in the United States. Only 46% of these companies were able to raise enough for the second round of financing. Where you can turn when you need financing quickly. Why do so many companies fail?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. See a sample reprint in PDF format. SMALL BUSINESS. Legal Services.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Tools for Hackathons – added Dec 2012. easy business finance software. Wireframes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Investors sat with the founder & CEO, Jason Spievak, and asked him what he wanted to do about the future. They either had a portfolio company in market and weren’t getting offers as quickly as expected or they knew a friend in the biz who was recounting this to them in a session VCs strangely call “comparing notes.”.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

was a great outcome for the company (kudos to Josh James, their visionary founder & CEO!) Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1). Yahoo Finance. The acquisition of Omniture by Adobe for $1.8B and the second SaaS public transaction in history behind the acquisition of Webex by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2B. Europe Consumer. (1).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

AUGUST 22, 2012

A case in point is Nutanix , a company worth paying attention to and one where we recently led an oversubscribed growth round of financing. We’ve had the privilege of working with them from the earliest days of the company when Lightspeed originally lead the Series A financing more than two and half years ago.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

RCSMs premise is that they can reach an investment decision (and valuation) based on an application completed by the founders and take gut feel out of the decision process. Can't wait until you have some actual portfolio results to analyze and compare against Cambridge returns. ► 2012. (1). September 27, 2011 5:51 PM.

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ithacaVC

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Here is a post from October 2012. And here is a post from November 2012. If you are advising startup founders, I strongly suggest having them read all 4 of the posts to get the lay of the startup valuation land. A founder is about to raise their first round and asking me how to value their company. [1]. Market size.

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VC Cafe

JULY 13, 2011

Other TAMID Fellows spend their summers at high-level Israeli venture capital firms like Giza Venture Capital and Arba Finance. TAMID’s story begins three years ago at Michigan, where founders Sasha Gribov and Eitan Ingall sought a way to connect their business-minded classmates with Israel’s exciting economy.

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K9 Ventures

JANUARY 14, 2016

Today K9 Ventures’ portfolio company Everlaw announced that it has raised $8.1M In 2009 I agreed to lead the seed round financing for Modista, but that investment didn’t happen (long story). K9 invested in the initial financing round (today I would call this a Pre-Seed round) for EasyESI, as the company was then called.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Geoffrey Arone , the founder of FLock, who is now an Entrepreneur-In-Residence in our Menlo Park office, mentioned this company to me and I thought it was worth writting a post about it. Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1). Yahoo Finance. Friday, March 23, 2007. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Europe Consumer. (1).

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). This invite-only event for our portfolio companies and close friends of the firm was designed to be fairly intimate and interactive. Labels: Portfolio , SaaS , software.

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

Not to worry, I was busy working on closing the Series B financing for iControl Networks. I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. I personally enjoy the earliest stages and building a portfolio of start-ups and entrepreneurial teams. Newer Post.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Bessemer was also heavily represented with David Cowan , managing partner and co-founder of VeriSign ( see his post about the event ), Rob Stavis , BVP’s New York-based managing partner who led our investment in Skype, Byron Deeter , partner and founder of Trigo and our COO/managing partner Ed Colloton. Portfolio. (3).

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Recent guests: Heidi Roizen (Mobius), Philip Rosedale (Linden Labs) and the founders of Meebo. Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1). Yahoo Finance. I innovate : a 20mn podcast on innovation and entrepreneurship. The bi-weekly podcasts feature interviews of entrepreneurs and silicon Valley leaders. Europe Consumer. (1).

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

We learned from Periscope’s founder, Kayvon Beykpour, about Scott’s role as a trusted advisor and confidant in the company’s earliest stages, culminating in Periscope’s acquisition by Twitter and subsequent integration. His work with the Periscope team exemplifies his character as an investor.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Hats off to Jon Benhamou and Clement Buyse, the two founders, and to the wider Peopledoc team for this achievement! It’s only the perseverance, grit and vision of the founders that makes it possible. Sometimes companies get to the point of acquisition in a straight line; most of the time, however, they don’t.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

Capital Factory is fortunate to have many co-founders and some that even joined a few years in. In 2012, when we opened up the coworking space Bill Boebel and Gordon became co-founders and helped establish the model that we have in place today. You lead the Operations, Finance, Sales and Marketing teams.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

In this guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been-there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues. Watch your finances. The ColdFire Brewing team meets to plan marketing.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. I liked the founders and considered making a personal investment, but ended up passing. However, I was glad to see they were able to raise financing and launch the service. ► 2012. (1). Anonymous said.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 26, 2012

As December and 2012 draws to a close, I've decided to weigh in with my thoughts on the impending (or not depending on which blogs you read) Series A Crunch. Jason Calacanis responded and argues in There is No Series A Crunch that this is a non-issue and up to the seed financed start-ups to prove they are worthy. Is this Armageddon?

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Here’s my take on the state of things as they stand at the end of 2012. Given this definition, we continue to see dedicated seed funds providing strong benefits for founders, including: Minimal signaling risk at the next round of financing. In some ways, many of the forces that drove the rise of MicroVC’s are as strong as ever.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The formula will be based on the founders experience, schools they attended and other background information to gauge the likelihood of success. With 2 or 4 new investments per week that Right Side is projecting, it will be challenging enough to remember the names of the entrepreneurs in their portfolio, let along help build companies.

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