David Teten

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Finance is a new, early-stage, New York-based VC focused on East Coast companies. s founder is David Teten , previously a Partner with HOF Capital and ff Venture Capital and a serial fintech entrepreneur with 2 exits. The firm particularly has interest in fintech, edtech, and salestech.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

These things are right up my alley because it’s what I love doing and align with my goal to be the best advisor to early-stage founders. Company is a great fit: they host, advise, mentor, lend a shoulder, and provide a place to founders and teams. Company is the most equipped organization to deliver on this mission.

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David Teten

JUNE 10, 2020

SOP Capital is a new, early-stage, New York-based VC focused on East Coast companies. SOP’s founder is David Teten , previously a Partner with HOF Capital and ff Venture Capital and a serial fintech entrepreneur with 2 exits. The firm particularly has interest in fintech, edtech, and salestech.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

After hosting three live roundtables and being on stage for six to seven hours a day last month during my trip to Pune , I almost lost my voice. At the final roundtable, we worked with just two entrepreneurs and then spent the rest of the time on Q&A, which in itself was interesting. These resellers buy devices from the U.S.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

As high-conviction, seed stage investors, we are inherently relationship-driven, and we value meeting exceptional founders face-to-face. With the onset of COVID-19, we, along with the broader ecosystem of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, have been pushed to rapidly adapt, forge connections, and do our jobs remotely.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma. At 11 a.m.,

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

End of Year Update After officially announcing Breyer Capital Austin earlier this year after two years of active planning and due diligence, I received a humbling number of gracious emails and messages from Austin-based leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, and investors. Richard was previously the Chief Scientist at Salesforce.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

An entrepreneur should pick this one up ASAP. This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Photo by thesaint.

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View from Seed

JULY 13, 2022

I love LA, mostly because I think of it as a place that gave me a lot of opportunities, and a place that I find very inspiring, you can feel creativity everywhere, so I’ve found it to be a great place to be an entrepreneur. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? And your least? And your least?

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

At the time, no one was investing in early stage consumer companies — it wasn’t a “thing” yet. Ambitious entrepreneurs are setting out to disrupt formidable incumbents across every product, service and experience. So when Kirsten described her vision for Forerunner, I was hooked. EK: It is such an exciting time to be a consumer.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I have written about this before on my Forbes column, but want to raise the question again: Are Business Schools Setting Up Entrepreneurs To Fail? Nonetheless, in the last couple of years, the flow of first-time entrepreneurs who come out with the misconception that Entrepreneurship = Financing has not abated.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 19, 2020

The advice I’m giving most of the companies I work with is to not worry about 2020 growth rate but to focus on preserving cash so we can have the greatest possible optionality when we eventually emerge from this downturn (and we have no real sense right now just how hard things will get). Stress test your operating plan.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Is there an early mover advantage for being early on a technology trend? think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 16, 2022

Early stage investing creates the best outcomes if you’re investing in non-obvious opportunities in markets that are early on their S-curve. When you invest as early as we do, it always comes down to the founders. Early-stage investing is more art than science and hence, hard to scale.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Before I do, however, I want to talk about a thumb rule that I'd like to propose to entrepreneurs about raising money. Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. Then Liana Thompson pitched Trendy Loot , a very early stage deal site for low-end jewelry. We will work on that with her. Trendy Loot.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

clearly states what they do (“build web apps”), their benefits (“without code”), and who it’s for (“entrepreneurs”). Despite targeting its young user base with content that has little to do with insurance, Lemonade has grown to a base of 1 million users and posted $94 million in revenue in 2020 in six years.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2020

After all, especially for companies at the earliest of stages, ostensibly they will be building over the next decade or more, and are playing into megatrends that in the long run will vastly outweigh any temporary setbacks from a temporal crisis. the Great Covid Crisis of 2020 will be well behind us.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 25, 2020

As an early stage investor I look at A LOT of pitch decks. Rather it hopefully leads to an interesting conversation about how the entrepreneur sees the market. Often with another logo or two, but with the startup in an advantaged differentiated position. If it was, I just kinda blew it by publishing this post.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had three niche e-commerce entrepreneurs and two e-commerce infrastructure entrepreneurs. Good news: Indrajit is a solo entrepreneur, so he doesn't have a large overhead to support. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. GrillGrate.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

During this week's roundtable we had a group of entrepreneurs from the Pune Open Coffee Club gather at the offices of Persistent Systems to participate in the roundtable together. Then Suresh Sambandam with OrangeScape came on to discuss a specific issue: where should entrepreneurs try to raise money? Suresh is a 1M/1M premium member.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2020

Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Why it’s so hard to predict where we are going in 2020. Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Why it’s so hard to predict where we are going in 2020. * Like this show? Like this show?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2020

Brent Wistrom edits the daily Austin Inno Beat email newsletter , which has emerged over the last five years as a must-read source of information for the city’s startup, entrepreneurial and investment communities The Forrest Files: August 6, 2020 Brent Wistrom is a senior editor at American Inno , overseeing half of Inno’s 14 markets.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As we enter year three, we are excited to announce that both accelerator programs in Austin and Houston will run simultaneously which gives us the ability to support up to 200 early-stage startups, and help connect them to Texas’ innovation communities. THE TEXAS PROGRAMS 2020 is a hallmark year for the Texas team.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

During this week's roundtable we discussed an area that deserves a serious look from entrepreneurs: Rural BPO. Today, I invited entrepreneurs to come up with ideas, apply the 1M/1M methodology to it, and come discuss with me at these roundtables. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. To diversify its economy and provide more jobs for the youth, in 2014 the country adopted the 2016-2020 Country Strategy Paper. With a population of 11.4

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

What better way to start 2020 than being mentioned in Inc.’s On top of that, we’re fourth in early-stage funding. Cities for Starting a Business in 2020” Inc. s list of best cities to start a business. According to Inc. Tom Foster for Inc.’s s “The 50 Best U.S. You can check out our upcoming events here !

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

As we’ve shared, we intentionally wanted to flip the traditional Accelerator model on its head and offer a unique offering for entrepreneurs at the earliest of stages. So in this blog post, we wanted to expand upon three aspects that aren’t typical to the usual Accelerator model. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

According to current Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity now exceeds 86%, more than 12 percentage points higher than ten years ago at the height of the last recession. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2018

AssuredLeads is expanding rapidly and will continue to do so for the next several years, with several hundred employees forecasted by 2020. Going back to your early career decisions, tell us what factors influenced your decision to be an entrepreneur? . Fail early and often and identify how to learn and improve.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020. Of our early-stage deals we do 33% Seed, 66% A’s) Why recycling is important, but why without exits you might even be forced to stop paying management fees for a while What Will Happen with LPs in this Economic Market?

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2021

It can be tough for entrepreneurs to attract and retain high-quality employees in the early stages. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in December 2020, approximately 70% of private employee compensation was for wages. For example, any entrepreneur can offer a small business 401(k). But that comes at a cost. .

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2021

The challenge will occur on May 21 at Houston Tech Rodeo in partnership with Houston Exponential and will feature five technology startup finalists from greater Houston that will be evaluated by a panel of successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. One will walk away with a $50,000 investment! Application deadline is April 26.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2019

While Silicon Valley has the advantages of a self-sustaining entrepreneurial reputation and proximity to multiple major universities, other countries have natural advantages that make them highly supportive of new tech entrepreneurs. Israeli Startups to Watch in 2020. Communities are powerful for entrepreneurs.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Today, Andrew Rachmell from Boca Raton, Florida, discussed peerbackers , a crowdsourced fund raising platform to help very early stage entrepreneurs raise small denomination funding ($50, $100) from friends, family, and peers to help finance the prototype development phase with about $25,000 in seed financing. peerbackers.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Now the calendar-truthers will tell you that the switchover from 2020 to 2021 is more significant because that’s the *actual* beginning of the new decade, but come on, time is a flat circle and we all know moving from a —9 to —0 is a bigger deal. We’re just a few weeks from the end of the 2010’s.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Intuit 2020 Research Report. The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs. The Connected World of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur Magazine Blog. Before you agree to take equity in lieu of cash, you need to understand that any individual early stage start-up company equity is most likely going to be worthless. innovation.

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