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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

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. This way of building the business we call ‘Value SaaS’ and the funding itself as optionality funding. One third of them are growing over 50% y-o-y.

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The reality of Profitably raising money from angels and VCs in New York

David Teten

for Profitably , a provider of small business analytics. Adam was one of our star students from the first class in New York, when Profitably was just Adam, a Powerpoint, and a really amazing domain name. The NY Angels website says this clearly. By the nature of angel networks, that will be challenging.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

One of the impact initiatives I’m proudest of is founding Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York , a nonprofit and now the East Coast’s largest angel group. When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

645 Ventures , a New York City based VC firm, is one of the pioneers of a data-driven investment model to the seed stage. While the historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship, some GPs actively participate in LP/GP communities to find and build relationships with potential LPs.

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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

There are so many unknowns at this stage and the only known is that the business model is going to change at least once, or in the current most overused term in the Silicon Valley, there will be a "pivot". Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? work at home. May 1, 2011 10:32 PM.

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ProfessorVC: What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

Professor VC

However, that is not always the case as there is no qualification to set out your shingle as an angel investor or form an angel group. I often wonder if saying you are an angel investor is the 21st century version of being a consultant in the early 1990s after the corporate layoffs, a euphemism for someone without a real job.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. See you next time.