David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

– Network. Social media tools like Linkedin and FullContact increases the value of network currency (reputation and access), because people with currency can spend their currency getting to a wider array of influencers. Our industry is highly noisy, and VCs use their networks to filter for signal amidst the noise.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

Aligned Partners offers our portfolio companies world-class venture capital expertise while enabling founders to start lean and stay lean all the way through their growth. All of us have built great careers and portfolios along with amazing relationships with entrepreneurs and executives.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

She began the CIA’s Lessons Learned program and led the Agency’s first effort to address the challenges posed by social networks, digital ubiquity, and the emerging culture of collaboration. In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It’s an exciting time to be launching a new fund as our focus on network effects and broad geography are driving opportunities in both existing and emerging markets. We invest in companies and platforms that leverage network effects. We invest across North America. About Fund III. Acknowledgements and gratitude.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

He does this all round for the Capital Factory portfolio but this week he’ll be in high gear making hundreds of introductions and arranging hundreds of in-person meetings at Capital Factory. Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. How will crowdfunded investments impact your portfolio?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

Mark has been at the forefront of providing job stability and funding for his own employees and the networks that support them during the pandemic. They're going to look to see what impact you had in your community. 22:13) The way companies treat employees and customers and impact their communities now will them for decades to come.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 30, 2013

The past two days the Colorado Innovation Network held it’s 2nd annual COIN Summit. Powerful startup communities start at the neighborhood level. This is one of the key parts of my theory around Startup Communities. Colorado Boulder cooley denver EFCO entrepreneur rally software startup colorado startup communities'

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. In San Antonio we take great pride in our diverse, artistic, affordable and culturally rich community filled with a young and burgeoning creative class workforce.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Community is one of the driving forces at Foundry Group. We’ve kept ourselves intentionally small as a firm so can keep our close connection with our portfolio founders from due diligence, to investment, and throughout the lifecycle of our investments. We invest in companies and funds across North America.

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David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

In early 2012, my HBS Alumni Angels colleagues and I launched the Venture Capital Access Program (VCAP), an initiative to help women and minority-led businesses to raise capital from the Harvard alumni angel community. the America that is not just white men.). Sheila Marmon, CEO, Mirror Digital. Sheila Marmon, CEO, Mirror Digital.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

He also didn’t believe in supporting the community and supporting local organizations through our skills. More importantly, we continue to help the community through pro-bono projects, supporting non-profits and charitable campaigns, and giving back where and when we can. Six years in business later, we continue to grow.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees. As I outline in my new book, The Innovation Blind Spot , meritocracy in America today is a myth. Yet I’m excited about the intentional ways that Austin is trying to solve for the problem.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Additionally, he led the company expansion to Latin America. Prior to SendGrid, Pedro co-founded two companies, including Recomind.net, which was acquired by Buscapé Company, the largest e-commerce conglomerate in Latin America. Our portfolio companies have gone on to raise >$1.2B

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

He grew up in Colombia, South America. And my specialty was computer networks. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. ” “Well, you get to be involved with our portfolio companies after we invest.” It was all technical.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

I remember writing a blog post in 2008, post-financial crash, on how the recession was going to re-vitalize the city’s tech startup community, which would eventually help diversify the NYC economy. More importantly, building global networks is key in order to optimize exit opportunities for portfolio companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. This one claims to be the world’s largest single angel investor network, with 3000 accredited investor members throughout 52 chapters on 3 continents. USA Angel Investment Network.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 11, 2016

In a study held by the communications and public relations firm of Cohn & Wolfe, consumers consider a brand to be authentic when the company delivers on what it promises, protects consumer data, respects privacy, and interacts with their customers with transparency and integrity. Multi-channel loyalty works in the same way.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Network effects of cities and innovation — and how it ties to inequality Just as there are network effects in online platforms, where a network grows more valuable to users the more users that join and use it, there are also network effects in the physical world. The same applies to cities.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It is important to get involved with different startup networks, conferences, and competitions. Here is a short list of conferences, competitions, and networks to check out for upcoming events. Another option is to go straight to a network designed specifically for angel investors. Startup Funding'

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2020

At Foundry Group, we are hiring a Head of Network. Following is a repost of the overview of the role and why we are adding a Head of Network to our team. We’re looking for a leader to create a more robust, dynamic, and connected network program at Foundry Group. We invest in companies and funds across North America.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Mr. Lindzon has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

It attracted a very high quality crowd of senior executives from major investment banks and members of the innovation community — two groups that don’t normally mingle. My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Outbound Squad, hosted by Jason Bay and brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. And I remember talking to Dr. Bronwyn King, who runs an organization called Tobacco Free Portfolio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. This one claims to be the world’s largest single angel investor network, with 3000 accredited investor members throughout 53 chapters on 3 continents. USA Angel Investment Network.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I had the opportunity to speak with Melinda Emerson, the “SmallBizLady” and America’s #1 small business expert, who took the opportunity to share with us her proven, step-by-step method to transition from employee to entrepreneur. You also may need to reconnect and expand your network.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 14, 2014

Someone pointed out that corporate VC is less gender biased, perhaps because corporate America has rules that they live by. Although there is still plenty of sexism in corporate America, there are systems and processes in place to support diversity, recruiting and mentoring. Small VC partnerships do not live by similar rules.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 8, 2012

First, following the tragedy of September 11, 2001, Jim became an activist for a better America and produced a series of compelling documentary films to further his cause. Nobody knew this better than Jim because he had to coordinate everything from email to social networking to blogging to rally people to his own cause.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. The founders are committed to the global distributed computing community and engage fully by offering and sustaining a free community versio n for life. BlazingDB is the third in this series, after RackN and Appbase.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map. Co-Working Space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum. Angel Capital Association (ACA). Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. This one claims to be the world’s largest single angel investor network, with 2500 accredited investor members throughout 52 chapters on 3 continents. USA Angel Investment Network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

Although relatively new, they announced early last year that their community had already grown to more than 500 startups, and 2,500 investors. The format is more social networking in nature, and they also will soon provide a recruiting portal for crowdfunding with unaccredited investors, now that the US JOBS Act has been passed.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It was time to take their claim, their rightful place in the international community. I think the real long pole in the tent is in developing new operational concepts, in light of a clear-eyed assessment of what we’re going to face from either China or for example Russia’s A2/AD network in Europe. We like to be the one to beat.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America? Their VC firm, In-Q-Tel , has been in business for 10 years, and like most VC firms they have an annual event where they show off their new portfolio companies to their limited partners and other VC partners. They were all from somewhere in the intelligence community.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Journal Community. Journal Community. Journal Community. Journal Community. Answers allows you to tap the knowledge of Community members.

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