Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

So that we’re speaking the same language I would define “exclusive” as a period in which your company is prohibited from doing business with certain customers or business partners, which is why many incorrectly assume this is necessarily bad. PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. So we think about scaling a lot.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 3, 2011

Once a quarter my partners ( Seth , Ryan , Jason ) and I spend 48 hours together. At dinner we zoned in on all of the current activity in early stage tech. Our conversation shifted to 2015. Last night, over an amazing meal, we ended up talking about what we’ve been investing in over the past four years.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 9, 2016

In 2015, Canada ranked second in the world in terms of entrepreneurial activity, surpassing most G7 countries and a majority of the developed world. The research also found that 13 percent of Canada’s working-age population is engaged or involved in various early-stage entrepreneurial activities.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

From Series A and onwards, fundraising takes longer and valuations are typically below the expectations and benchmarks of 2015. This can set up a perfect storm if early-stage companies don’t manage their expectations and reality properly. 2016 for Version One companies.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program. Get Involved The 2015 conference will be held from November 16th-19th at historic Fort Mason in San Francisco.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

Success in early stage investing is about spotting unique talent and collaborating with entrepreneurs to help grow their businesses, not a prescribed method of pattern recognition. Limited partners are pension funds, university endowments, funds of funds (who get their money from pension funds), family offices and foundations.

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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. We’ve also become very adept at partnering with seed funds.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

As I look at the data, I am proud of what we’ve built and by all accounts we had a great 2015. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. The post FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap appeared first on The Barefoot VC. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

I still wanted K9 to be the first institutional money in a company and work with “frighteningly early-stage” companies. Fast-forward to June 2015, two years later, and now I feel that the change that I started to notice back in 2013, is here, and it’s here to stay. The change in thinking is a natural and logical thing.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As I look at the data, I am proud of what we’ve built and by all accounts we had a great 2015. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. The post FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap appeared first on The Barefoot VC.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. We collect more data on an individual business than, to our knowledge, any other RBI investor, through our application process, data partners, and various public sources online. Bigfoot Capital.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Most impressively, there seems to be a thriving startup of every flavor, with many more joining the list of Pillar Startups on the Guide in 2016 compared to 2015. This is true when it comes to early-stage funding, but also as it relates to support platforms being built by local firms to help Boston-based startups.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In October, we held our annual Limited Partners meeting at NextView. This is happening because many series A investors are not really investing in early stage companies any more. In fact, many of these investors are not just looking for early product/market fit, but for meaningful scale and growth.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

My boss, Jen Grant , was an incredible manager, and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO, was a fantastic partner on all things communications. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. Every milestone was an opportunity to tell the biggest possible story.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

TalentMoxie blends strength based career coaching, human resources, and partners with companies that want to hire talented people. I started my side hustle back around late 2014, early 2015. TalentMoxie.com is a online platform for all people who are looking to make meaningful career moves. Photo Credit: Cynthia Brown.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. In this context, there are at least six stages often included in the scope of R&D to narrow your focus: Search for new technologies. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 4/3/2015.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It continues to be highly dependent on company, stage, and location. At the early stages, raising the first $2m tends to be straightforward in most geographies that have meaningful startup communities. Any current trends that stand out to you that are changes from the 2015 environment? Will this continue through the year?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2015

As an advisor to many early-stage entrepreneurs, I caution them to always be prepared for that chance meeting with a famous investor, a potential partner or an industry guru. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 5/29/2015. It’s not smart to believe that your passion and gift of gab will impress anyone.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

Since 2015, Michael Patryn’s expertise in finance, compliance and strategic growth initiatives has helped a range of companies successfully position themselves to go public on the CSE and TSX-V. Entrepreneurs with VC funding gain more than funding, they gain a team of partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Early stage research and development won’t excite angels. Look to grants and strategic partners for seed funding. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 2/06/2015. Every angel looks to scale the business after you have funded product design, perhaps with friends and family.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience. This got him more power and with that power he executed on his belief system and had a lousy 2015 season. That’s healthy.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 6, 2016

We love working on behalf of these partners because they represent charitable foundations, pension funds, university endowments and other groups who rely upon our returns to grow. Late last year I traveled back east to visit the campus of one of our endowment partners to celebrate a milestone anniversary for their management company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We’ve also worked with our Partner, Dana Kibler who is also our CFO for nearly 20 years. Obviously the funding environment has changed considerably in 2022 but as early-stage investors our daily jobs stay largely unchanged. That was a question I had been asked by LPs in 2015 when we began our Early Growth program.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. As part of the Lightspeed Venture Partner Summer Fellowship program, I ask guest speakers to come in each week and talk to the Fellows about key topics related to building a successful startup. Be willing to help partners accelerate testing new markets.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2014

Being in a one-vote fund where you don''t need to huddle up in a partners meeting to do a deal--totally overrated. Why bother making any new investments at that point? These days, I usually tell companies whether I''m in or out in the first or second meeting--and I won''t even take a meeting if I know it''s not a deal I can get excited about.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2016

Amy and I watched The Big Short on Tuesday with my partner Jason and his wife Jenn. My partners and I hadn’t yet created Foundry Group. Early stage and seed capital was extremely difficult to find. We were electrified as we walked out of the theater – all four of us loved it. Techstars didn’t exist.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

You thought media twitter was bad… You thought tech twitter was bad… — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 24, 2015. I made my calls around to a few firms today to hear how their partner meetings went. So why invest in that period of uncertainty unless it’s early-stage and thus valuation matters less.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. is one of the early and most well-known Flexible VCs, based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Early Growth Financial Services

MAY 19, 2015

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) May 19, 2015 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS) is pleased to announce its first-ever panel event focused on cannabis-based businesses. Originally published on PRWeb. Founder and CEO … Continue reading →

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades,” Bill exclaimed in a 2015 TED Talk , “it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus, rather than a war.”. With the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and 2015, people got so sick so fast that they were typically bedridden by the time they were contagious.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 5, 2017

One aspect of early stage venture that feels great is the opportunity to assist founders in building their teams. Beth joined us mid-2015 after 12+ years in Recruiting/PeopleOps leadership roles at Google and Salesforce. That’s what I hope for each talented non-founder I meet.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Early stage sales and product-market fit are topics that I love talking about,” said Schwartzfarb. I’ve spent my entire career helping to build early stage companies and I feel very fortunate to share my experience with founders everywhere.” Find Amos Schwartzfarb on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). Savary, Goldsmith, and Dhar (2015) were collecting donations in a field experiment. Yet they incentive people to donate, even in the early stages of a campaign. So proceed with caution.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

But whether you are trying to build daily, habitual products for business users like Slack or InVision or trying to reach truly mass market consumers like Wayfair, Jet, or Chewy, there is someone in the Guild who has faced this challenge at the early stages of a business and at scale. Back to Top).

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