Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active. In fact, nine of the ten most active investment firms are located there (with one in Boston). For the 1st quarter, Healthcare remained the largest single sector for venture money. Tags: startups venture capital business.

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Venture Capital Elevator Pitch Silicon Valley Massachusetts 123

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

During the summer of 2010, I developed a workshop, A New ACEF Valuation Workshop for Angels and Entrepreneurs. To provide some reference points, I surveyed thirteen angels groups in North American to determine their recent experience in negotiating the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies. 2011 Angel Group Valuation Survey.

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Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation St. Louis 125

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

New Capital Earmarked for Global High-Growth Investments LARCHMONT, N.Y., 26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. 2009 Bessemer Venture Partners.

Software Review 48

Software Review Partner United States Venture Capital 48

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything!

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Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

Rob Go

JUNE 16, 2014

Now it’s table stakes”; Jo Tango’s blog post on the VC Bottleneck in Boston; and Mike Volpe’s comments on a post from my blog on raising seed rounds vs. Series A’s. On top of that, there are fewer series A investors now than there have been in the past (at least in Boston). Wow, that sounds really bad.

Early Stage 67

Early Stage Boston Portfolio Venture Capital 67

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

However, in this moment, I think one''s career in venture capital depends on changing your perspective. If you are a venture capital investor and you''re not preparing yourself to succeed in a more diverse ecosystem of entrepreneurs, you''re just going to get left behind. Venture Capital & Technology'

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Venture Capital Cofounder IRR Dilution 152

BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

In addition, over 750 investors came in from all over including London, California, Boston, and DC to network and participate. Add VCs from Boston and CA and elsewhere and you have quite an experienced plethora of investors to work with.

New York 129

New York Sweat Equity Marketing Startup 129

BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

In addition, over 750 investors came in from all over including London, California, Boston, and DC to network and participate. Add VCs from Boston and CA and elsewhere and you have quite an experienced plethora of investors to work with.

New York 129

New York Sweat Equity Marketing Startup 129

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. From the perspective of best practices, we will address questions such as: How to assess opportunities (idea, team, valuation). 8:30 Networking. Karen Bantuveris, CEO of VolunteerSpot ( ff VC and angel-backed startup with 2.5m

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

When we started NextView, there were relatively few seed focused venture capital funds in the country, even fewer on the east coast, and almost none in the Boston area. In a frothy market, rounds can get done in this way at pretty high prices (or valuation caps for notes) albeit with less value-added investors involved.

Cram Down 66

Cram Down Institutional Investors Dilution Seed Stage 66

Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

The 2012 fellowship recipients, along with their university affiliations and the titles of their dissertations, are: Mabel Botelho Abraham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Gendered Networks or Gendered Networking? Gilje, Boston College “Does Local Access to Finance Matter?: Evidence from U.S.

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North Carolina Maryland Michigan Los Angeles 43

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Israeli startups are struggling to scale.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Some have made the model work. It’s great advice.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

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North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2008

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