David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Andressen Horowitz,ff Venture Capital,HOF Capital, Sequoia .

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I have been impressed by how these venture capitalists are accomplishing a major social impact goal…without even trying to. of venture capital deals. Don’t hire people you know!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which In the U.S. Most share expertise as well as money.

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Search Accredited Investor Angel Investor Venture Capital 317

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations.

Technical Review 257

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Offshore 257

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Assets need to move in a community of engaged users. Community means more than supply and demand. Often these communities are built around special interest groups, where the members interact through social media, help each other, and trust each other, and the relationships go well beyond the transactions.

Cuba 316

Cuba Venture Capital Community Valuation 316

VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

Live operations refer to the ongoing management and maintenance of a game after its initial launch, and can include things like events, updates, and community management. How did the video game business evolve from its packaged goods roots in the early '90s to the complex, multi-platform, online business of today?

Generative AI 104

Generative AI San Francisco Technical Review Europe 104

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

He uses this opportunity to promote the value of outsourcing because having someone else complete time-consuming administrative tasks frees up time for business owners to grow their organization. Lazarus also feels it is important to spend time with friends and do whatever he can to give back to the community.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Some other ‘birds of a feather’ community you’ve cultivated. All of these areas require real understanding of core underlying technology, not just pattern matching against a business model applied to a vertical. The school you went to. The company you’re currently working at. The cultural group or demographic you’re a part of.

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North Carolina Hiring Angel Investor Technical Review 90

Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We make a majority of our investments in those sectors and prioritize proven business models. 645 Ventures: A New Era of Venture Capital Investing Arena Growth Partners We help great leaders build great businesses.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage 48

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. After three years of evangelizing, I am very pleased to see success cases emerging in Japan by following Customer Development Model. ————-.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Offshore 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. While I didn’t get much time with the academic community, in talking to students, education seems to still be one of China’s bottlenecks – rote lectures, passive learning, follow the process, exam-based performance, etc. business models. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

China 323

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors. They typically look for big opportunities, needing a couple of million dollars or more, with a proven team.

Equity 266

Equity Startup Small Business Administration SBA 266

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Early in your startup’s development, you’ll likely be low on capital. Even if you have an angel investor or a venture capital (VC) firm backing you, you’ll have an abundance of expenses, limited income, and a finite amount of time before the money completely runs out. Accordingly, you’ll need to be frugal. Cut or Keep?

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Startup Software Review Open Source Technical Review 106

David Teten

APRIL 17, 2012

After work on April 18, thirty-five curious developers will visit the ff Venture Capital offices to learn about our fund and listen to technical talks by the founders and technical experts of Parsely and Movable Ink. If you’d like to join them, contact Skillfer ASAP; there may still be some openings.

Venture Capital 141

Venture Capital Developer Startup Hosting 141

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors. They typically look for big opportunities, needing a couple of million dollars or more, with a proven team.

Equity 436

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 436

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Alternative Capital Summit. Inflection Community.

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Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common ways in which the Fortune 500 are working with the startup community at scale is through corporate VC arms, contests, packages of benefits geared to startups, and accelerator programs. I worked with our intern team to look for the Fortune 500 companies making the strongest effort to reach out to the tech startup community.

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Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Assets need to move in a community of engaged users. Community means more than supply and demand. Often these communities are built around special interest groups, where the members interact through social media, help each other, and trust each other, and the relationships go well beyond the transactions.

Cuba 246

Cuba Venture Capital Community Valuation 246

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

business models. While I didn’t get much time with the academic community, in talking to students, education seems to still be one of China’s bottlenecks – rote lectures, passive learning, follow the process, exam-based performance, etc. business models. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

Startup 207

Startup Social Media Venture Capital Audio 207

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Before moving to Bend last year, my career took me from engineering development roles at defense contractors in the 80’s to product management and executive marketing roles in companies like Qualcomm in the 90’s, to the world of venture capital at several firms including Bay Partners, Formative Ventures and Vulcan Ventures.

Silicon Valley 312

Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital 312

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Even if you already know what a SWOT analysis is and what it’s used for, it can be tough to translate that information and examine your own business with a critical eye. Reading an example SWOT analysis for a business that is either in your industry or based on a comparable business model can help get you started.

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Botswana Business Plan Oregon Distribution 148

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

While this signaled that investments in technology companies could be very lucrative, both Shockley and Fairchild could only be funded through corporate partners – there was no venture capital industry. government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. A wave of innovation was about to meet a pile of risk capital.

Engineer 305

Engineer Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital 305

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Earlier this year, I was on a panel with Guy Podjarny, Snyk’s founder, at SaaStock Remote to discuss how the team’s community-driven freemium approach led to the company’s stellar growth. Here’s a short summary of the discussion: Guy, you launched Snyk in 2015, and a large part of your success was driven by your freemium model.

Early Stage 62

Early Stage Open Source Development Team Review Security 62

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2013

It''s embarrassing for us as a tech community. We''re supposed to be startup friendly, but the startups that want to come here and offer life improving services to the community can''t operate freely. The hurdles that companies like Uber and Airbnb have had to go through in NYC are an embarrassment to our startup community.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review New York City New York Startup 110

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Goldman Sachs and CB Insights recently reported that startups have raised over $1 billion in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) this summer — more than the total amount of venture capital raised during the same period. Need for growth capital. A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again.

Early Stage 20

Early Stage Equity Venture Capital Government 20

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Goldman Sachs and CB Insights recently reported that startups have raised over $1 billion in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) this summer — more than the total amount of venture capital raised during the same period. Need for growth capital. A company that can successfully raise money in an ICO may never need venture capital again.

Early Stage 20

Early Stage Equity Venture Capital Government 20

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you.

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Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 297

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Change, acceptance, and trust become more difficult as you get deeper into the fabric of a community. Monetization may require multiple business models. Every business model has to meet local licensing, taxing, and reporting requirements. You need local partners and relationships for credibility.

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New York City Kansas Advertising Cash Position 158

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

On the first official day of SXSW I’m going to be at the convention center all day until I head over to Capital Factory to kick off the SXSW Startup Crawl ! Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston.

Technical Review 89

Technical Review Austin Texas Cofounder 89

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

[12:50] So how does the process work for businesses who want to join Hello Alice? [13:37] 16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to? [18:16] 19:40] Have you seen a maturity of a business through this? [20:44] And so it's how do we kind of layer technology to support the community in meaningful ways?

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Networking Community 80

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Their capital needs are low at the front end.

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Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 258

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

To combat the lack of private venture funding in Canada, growth-stage businesses are leveraging public venture capital. Public venture capital has been vital in establishing Canada’s leadership in the resource space. The capitalization also builds success early on. That figure is compared to US$14.5

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Canada Government Venture Capital Early Stage 127

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors. They typically look for big opportunities, needing a couple of million dollars or more, with a proven team.

Entrepreneur 240

Entrepreneur Equity Small Business Administration SBA 240