Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as well as the Jobs Act of 2012 , are expected by many to ramp up regular people’s ability to fund new opportunities and kill the need for angel groups. billion collected in 2012. I just don’t see it happening any time soon.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

January 4, 2012. Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. HBS Angels will likely execute this in 2012. Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation.

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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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? And Why 20%?

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 30, 2013

While my portfolio is primarily centered around consumer internet as well as enterprise SaaS startups, I typically talk to two to three hardware startups each week. Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and my portfolio company Indiegogo are helping fill the financing void for hardware projects. Look at crowdfunding options.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and considerations for investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 9/21/2012. But these requirements go away with the new Crowdfunding JOBS Act just passed into law.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

.” So I had a great apprenticeship period between 2007-2009 followed by a set of concentrated investments in 2009-2012 of which some already didn’t succeed and others have really blossomed into market leaders now reaping the benefits of product-market fit. These days I find myself doing less. Not less work but fewer “things.”

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 8, 2020

An opportunity fund is basically a separate pool of capital that allows a VC to continue to invest in its most promising portfolio companies once the core funds have exhausted their follow-on reserves. The mandate of the fund is to invest in the most successful companies from Fund I (2012 vintage) and Fund II (2014 vintage).

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Most of our portfolio companies are hiring too, so I won’t single any particular one out: 30 To Follow (Being edited on the fly, so not exactly 30 anymore). Dataxu - Demand Side Platform for Real Time Ad Buying. Led by serial entrepreneur Mike Baker. Nanigans – Facebook Advertising Platform.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Asif Khan founded Caremerge in 2012 and recently received multi-million dollars in funding, Asif Khan has over 20 years of experience in technology. This is a particularly effective method for consumer products as the chances are higher that some people out there may want a certain product. .

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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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David Teten

MAY 10, 2012

I hope you can join me in Washington, DC, on Thursday, May 24, 2012, 5:30 PM To 8:30 PM for a talk and event sponsored by the HBS Club of Washington, DC. As I’ve previously blogged , I will soon publish the first formal study of best practices of VCs in improving portfolio company value.

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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 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. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? 9 July 2012, 1:10 pm Directr – Tell Your Story 30 June 2012, 1:55 am.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2015

Google’s gross and operating margins improved sequentially in 4Q14, and even as they continue to be lower than when desktop search advertising was at its peak in 2011 and early 2012, TBR believes margin growth is of lesser importance to Google than consistently growing total revenue and gross profit between 10% and 15% year-to-year each quarter.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2014

billion in fresh capital raised by 578 funds in the 1st quarter, up 36% from 2012. Now, funds do work to charge some of these costs back to their portfolio companies, but usually these offsets flow to the fund’s General and not its Limited Partners. To Your Success, P.S. Like to learn how to apply these principles to your portfolio?

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The email looked like this: I’ve been thinking a lot about feedback loops recently and thought it would be helpful to touch base on how we worked together in 2011 and think a bit about anything that we need to change about our interactions in 2012 (talk more; talk less; more concentrated time together; etc.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

But recent changes in the law, associated with the JOBS Act of 2012 , have made it possible to sell small chunks of ownership or equity to non-accredited investors -- regular people on the Internet. They may decide to acquire the startup in order to hire the team for another project in their portfolio. Ramen-profitable.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Twilio became a popular perk for Techstars companies globally over the years and many other Techstars portfolio companies use the product extensively. “ #8: Digital Ocean (2012). DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider that was funded by the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2012, after a referral from IA Ventures.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As such, creating a functional clone of Gust (including all the features under the hood, and ones that have not yet been released), using world-class engineers and state-of-the-art, 2012 project management in Ruby on Rails, would take roughly 20 person-years from soup to nuts (figure about 1/3 of that in product/UX/UI and 2/3 in actual coding.)

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Stepping back, it’s interesting to see this cultural shift among larger companies who are comfortable with these co-branding scenarios, which actually may provide better PR and future opportunities to add to their portfolios. vehicle listed on January 2012 in Crunchbase. Many tried and couldn’t get in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as well as the Jobs Act of 2012 , are expected by many to ramp up regular people’s ability to fund new opportunities and kill the need for angel groups. I just don’t see it happening any time soon. Neither does David S. What ends up, usually went down first.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2015

Asif Khan founded Caremerge in 2012 and recently received multi-million dollars in funding, Asif Khan has over 20 years of experience in technology. The right candidate is out there and you’ll find them.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

We raised our first fund in summer 2012. Amazing, mission-driven founders are found throughout our portfolio. And here’s the official unveiling, with a quick synopsis of our new messaging and the thinking behind it. . Backing the next generation of mission-driven founders”.

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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. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly. We’d also like to highlight two notable investors who participated in our first close: David Johnston began investing in Bitcoin in 2012. We were infatuated with tech.

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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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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. This is largely a relationship driven business, with the relationship between the venture investor and the lender being crucial to debt being made available to a portfolio company.

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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. © 2012 AOL Inc. Disrupt SF. Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 18, 2018

Our initial journey goes way back as we were investors in Guy Podjarny’s previous company, Blaze.io, which sold to Akamai in 2012. We are purpose built to double and triple-down in our portfolio as they hit milestones and scale their GTM team.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly. Enter into personal competitions. Photo source: [link].

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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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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The email looked like this: I’ve been thinking a lot about feedback loops recently and thought it would be helpful to touch base on how we worked together in 2011 and think a bit about anything that we need to change about our interactions in 2012 (talk more; talk less; more concentrated time together; etc.).

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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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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. In 2012, finally, we will see the first major crop of Indian entrepreneurs playing on the global stage. Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 31, 2012

75 Professional Free Fonts from 2012 to Spice up Your Typography – [link]. 75 Professional Free Fonts from 2012 to Spice up Your Typography – [link]. 20 Fresh and New Portfolio Sites Design – [link]. Interview with a crowdSPRING designer … 12 Questions: Meet Connie Carlson (USA) – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent in 2012 to 54 percent by 2022. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America. with demands for new products and services.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012. Buyers aren’t oblivious to the fact that funds need to sell older portfolio companies and an oversupply relative to demand means that prices should still be challenged going forward.

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