David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? aggregates resources from all the VCs. Once you have assembled the right core team, I recommend prioritizing as follows: First, meet with your portfolio company management. – What are your fundraising goals?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic. Oprah Winfrey at Academy of Achievement , Feb. Rather than fad chasing, take away from his story a lesson in noting more permanent consumer desires and catering to them.

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The “no mess” LP issue relates to investors in later rounds of financing (typically Series C and beyond). So, after the Series B round the company would have $13mm of aggregate liquidation preference ($3mm plus 2*$5mm). Yet, it is able to attract more investment capital. Is the $13mm of aggregate LP a problem?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. 2) Market .

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Startups are lucky that they can’t afford research, so they test in market and land upon on ideas that would never fly based on what we think or what focus groups would respond with. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. And the reason is, there's a bunch of reasons for this, but one of them is that doing a startup is just so difficult. So I see people sometimes tell me, "Why are you doing this startup?"

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