Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. 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.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 30, 2013

Despite the recent media buzz surrounding the hardware revolution and emerging maker space, the overwhelming majority of hardware startups have a hard time attracting financing today. De-risk your startup as much as possible. In the meantime, hardware startups should look for innovative ways to get their product to market.

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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”). Thus investing in startups should always be approached as a low odds game.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2015

Successful startups most always don’t happen overnight. It is important, however, to minimize mistakes early on so that you can continue to shape and grow your startup into a successful business. Having taken stock of my own hard-earned lessons, here are 5 tips on how to minimize typical startup missteps: 1. Culture Fit.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I often tell these entrepreneurs that I genuinely hope they prove us wrong, and are wildly successful with their startup. I looked at this founder’s prior startup, which ultimately had a successful exit, and then was happy to connect with him again as he launches a new project.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. January 4, 2012. Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. 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. And Why 20%?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Things like winning startup competitions, getting selected to a startup incubator, partnering with a large company, are all good ways to show traction and some proof that you’re creating value. Good examples include: Ycombinator, Techstars, Startup health and Rock health. Enter Competitions and Incubators.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. And even this can’t stop their employees from fleeing after two years of vesting to move on to the next hot startup. Easier said than done.

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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. On Wednesday, April 18th, I gave a keynote speech on US Startup Valuation Trends for the 1st Irish Angel Meetup. We had a lovely time in Northern Ireland.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Thursday, August 9th, 2012. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. © 2012 AOL Inc. Enterprise. Smartphones.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

There are literally hundreds of platforms currently operating that connect investors and startups, and there have been at least a hundred others that have come and gone. Gust News David Rose Gust investors replicate startups' .” With that in mind… No: It’s a similar situation in the entrepreneurial funding space.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. 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? How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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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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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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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. It is also worth noting that the rate of attrition of startup companies once they’ve reached the three year mark is an astonishingly low 1.4% The take-away is that the supply of companies out there keeps growing.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

The startup market evolves, and so do we as VCs. We raised our first fund in summer 2012. Amazing, mission-driven founders are found throughout our portfolio. Technology changes. Over the past few months, we’ve reflected on our journey over the past decade, who we are and what we invest in.

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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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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. In the venture-backed startup world, there are a couple of types of firm that will lend to a startup, even a startup that is still losing money. Fat Ass Fudge.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

It’s never easy to leave a stable job to launch a startup. “I realized that nonprofits were struggling with fund raising due to the economic downturn, and they needed a more diversified portfolio for their fundraising. Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders. ” And that’s how WeDidIt was born.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2012

And that person has almost certainly chosen specifically to be a startup lawyer over serving other types of customers because he or she enjoys working with entrepreneurs. She was lamenting that some startups simply see their PR company as merely somebody who corrals the press when you want to get some inches.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Convertible Notes Are Sometimes Terrible For Startups – [link]. Staffing your startup? Incubator 1871 Nurtures Chicago’s Growing Startup Scene – [link].

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann: I’ve been lucky to have been a part of 5 startups going back to the late-90s, including two that were VC-backed (DataHero and Aster Data). 500 Startups was looking to add someone with an enterprise background to their investing team, so I made the leap into venture at the start of 2017. As to “why Canada?”,

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

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. So look at the latest portfolio of your VC (not prior funds) and see whether they’ve had exits and how many of their non-exited companies are likely to exit in the near future.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Michael Yavonditte is CEO of Hashable, a New York startup backed by ff Venture Capital and a number of other leading VCs. Thursday, January 12, 2012. Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. You can reach Mr. Kalghatgi at nikhil@softbank.com and @nikhilkal. Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. So I started introducing him to portfolio companies. When I think about what defines us as a VC I think: Operationally knowledgeable / strong startup competence. The guy has knowledge. So why Greg and why now?

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. April 27, 2012. Apple’s not a startup but thanks in large part to the spirit Steve Jobs infused in the company, they do an incredible job of imagining a product from scratch as it should be. On the startup side, Square’s done a particularly good job of this in payments.

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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. The number of seed investors has increased in the last 5 years and the median startup now raises multiple chunks of seed stage capital before raising a “Series A” round.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The FT1000 is a list of companies which have made the highest percentage of growth between the years of 2012 and 2015. The post Startup Success: The Fastest Growing Gaming Company in Europe appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. Oblong, led by Kwin Kramer, which houses more MIT grads per startup than probably any other in LA.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. February 21, 2012. We’re thrilled to have among our limited partners a select group of individuals from the startup ecosystem as well as several large institutional investors (including a university endowment, a corporate pension fund, and a multi-family office).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

TradeHero , developed by Singapore-based tech startup MyManisku, is essentially a stock market simulation app for mobile devices that draws real-time data from 14 stock exchanges, 45,000 global securities and 1,300 currency pairs and allows users (gamers?) to simulate trades in game form.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. Was this a lost decade for venture capital?

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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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