www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. Our Events ▾ 6/14/12 · Boston. XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. Boston Events ›. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. venture investments since 1987.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Brad on blogging. was starting.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Kayak is great Boston-area success story. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea.

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

The SBIC was instrumental in the creation of the venture capital business. If you want to see a fun quote on it, read A History of Silicon Valley which quotes: “ …many venture capital pioneers think the SBIC program did little to advance the art and practice of venture investing.

SBIC 142

SBIC Venture Capital Colorado SBA 142

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more.

Portfolio 122

Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

After the acquisition of SneakerLabs, he served as the Vice-President of Interactive Technologies for E.piphany. There are three forms in which a company can have something new and unique: 1) New technology (the most common form, examples are Twilio, Coin, Occipital). New Technology or New Market, meaning no “me too” ideas.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Rob Go

MAY 2, 2013

Last night I attended a really fun event called the NEVY’s put on by the New England Venture Capital Association. It was a wonderful showcase of all the great companies, people, and investors that have helped the Boston technology market come roaring back in recent months and years. Boston founders want to finish.

Boston 52

Boston Silicon Valley Acquisition Portfolio 52

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

Genuine VC

JANUARY 22, 2014

We are looking for a passionate, outgoing, and talented individual embedded within the local Boston entrepreneurial community to facilitate information sharing between NextView portfolio companies, spearhead community-building & outreach efforts, and help promote our firm. Compensation will be competitive based on experience.

Community 113

Community Boston Seed Stage Venture Capital 113

VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Why get into the venture capital side of the business? I first got into venture capital about 10 years ago and I love my job. Unlike many venture capital firms that invest in certain geographic regions or specific technologies and sectors, Foundry Group’s investing activity is largely driven by a thematic approach.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital IPO 60

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

Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). But it seemed like it wasn’t enough. We could be doing more.

Portfolio 100

Portfolio Startup Boston Seed Stage 100

David Teten

MARCH 8, 2013

Introductions: Dan Rosen (Partner, Commerce Ventures; Learning Officer- HBS Alumni Angels). Speaker: David Teten (Partner, ff Venture Capital, and Chair, HBS Alumni Angels NY). How to add value to portfolio companies after you invest. INTRO BY: Dan Rosen, Partner at Commerce Ventures & Learning Officer at HBS Angels.

San Francisco 114

San Francisco Venture Capital Angel Groups LLC 114

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. 16:35-19:35). 37:00-40:30).

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. Stitch Fix’s personalization technology creates a very similar dynamic within women’s fashion. Lastly, I asked a few women that were not customers to try the service.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. When we say an emerging technology represents a “paradigm shift,” it’s often hyperbole. March 12, 2018 11:00AM?—?12:00PM

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

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'

Venture Capital 152

Venture Capital Cofounder IRR Dilution 152

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. An edited version of this piece originally appeared in the Boston Sunday Globe.

Massachusetts 33

Massachusetts Silicon Valley Washington Boston 33

Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

Rendering of the amphitheater at the new Waterloo Park opening soon in downtown Austin, at the convergence of our technology, medical school and arts districts. After an exhaustive search, they narrowed it down to three finalist cities: Austin, Boston and Raleigh. What about Austin is drawing people in and keeping them here?

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Austin Texas Raleigh 100

David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

In my research on how private equity and VC funds source investments , one of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the Bay Area. Onsi Sawiris, HOF Capital Co-Founder & Managing Partner, says, “The current growth of MENA markets is strong.

New York 60

New York Africa Cofounder Egypt 60

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

This is why I’ve made a habit of profiling our portfolio quantitatively and why we write summaries announcing pretty much all of our new investments. So, here is our annual quantitative summary of our portfolio. A Stroll Through Our Portfolio. Geography: 20 / 25 investments are based in the Boston and New York areas.

Portfolio 49

Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. How to build a portfolio of startup investments. How to add value to a portfolio company. What to do when your portfolio startup pivots. 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

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

A similar pattern exists for venture capital funding: In 2020, just three regions — the Bay Area, New York, and Massachusetts — accounted for 70%+ of total venture funding in the U.S. Technology transfer office. Venture capital. Furthermore, as of 2016, the U.S.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Well, that time has finally come. Migration, Diasporas, and Rejuvenation.

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. What is venture capital, really? And what does a venture capital firm do?

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Silicon Valley, Boston). In the second stage, it moves into Investing, Inventing, Incubating and Acquiring technologies and companies, and in the third stage building product(s ). Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. see the previous post.).

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Incubator Acquisition Business Model 120

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. The founder and CEO of another of our portfolio companies is wrapping up a large round and he showed me his pitch deck. Productivity.

Cofounder 175

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Term Sheet Startup 175

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

We got to know stellar entrepreneurs in the space and backed them early – 50% of our portfolio is comprised of companies who are defining this computing paradigm, and FPV continues to be a go-to fund for entrepreneurs looking for sector expertise. When we launched, few had heard of blockchain, and bitcoin was a dirty word.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

We got to know stellar entrepreneurs in the space and backed them early – 50% of our portfolio is comprised of companies who are defining this computing paradigm, and FPV continues to be a go-to fund for entrepreneurs looking for sector expertise. When we launched, few had heard of blockchain, and bitcoin was a dirty word.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. ff Venture Capital. First Round Capital. Acquirer/ Investor. 2009) [ii].

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. The income these investments generate then help fund the operations of those organizations or capital investment (e.g. LPs typically seek to invest in a portfolio of several VC funds, not just a single firm.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For m­any years, conventional wisdom held that a promising startup needed to be located in a traditional venture capital hub like Silicon Valley, San Francisco or New York to be successful. In fact, many venture capital firms in those areas would routinely require their portfolio companies to relocate.

Nashville 153

Nashville San Francisco Venture Capital Silicon Valley 153

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  At $20-30 billion per year, the venture capital industry as a whole remains a “drop in the bucket” in terms of capital deployed relative to the over trillion dollars sitting in private equity firms.    Yet the impact is enormous, with 18% of GDP provided by venture-backed companies. 

Private Equity 20

Private Equity Boston Massachusetts IPO 20

Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Unfortunately, most individual investors in private equity significantly under-diversify their portfolios -- investing in one or only a handful of companies. Building a Portfolio - Problems With Current Solutions Admittedly, a portfolio approach to private equity is much easier said than done for the individual investor.

Private Equity 63

Private Equity Technical Review Silicon Valley Los Angeles 63

Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Unfortunately, most individual investors in private equity significantly under-diversify their portfolios -- investing in one or only a handful of companies. Building a Portfolio - Problems With Current Solutions Admittedly, a portfolio approach to private equity is much easier said than done for the individual investor.

Private Equity 63

Private Equity Technical Review Silicon Valley Los Angeles 63

VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

In terms of access to venture capital, Israel was rated 2nd in the world. Taiyo has one of the most comprehensive generic product portfolios in the Japanese market and has a strong presence in all major distribution channels in Japan. ISRAELI UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS TO 5.8%. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Limelight Networks Inc.

Switzerland 79

Switzerland Japan Technical Review 79

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. The income these investments generate then help fund the operations of those organizations or capital investment (e.g. LPs typically seek to invest in a portfolio of several VC funds, not just a single firm.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335