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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Tech stack.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Retain 100%.

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999.

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Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund

K9 Ventures

New Technology or New Market : The product must involve some kind of new technology or a new market. Not interested in me-too businesses. No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies. Hyper-local : The entire team should be located in the SF Bay Area.

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Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund

K9 Ventures

New Technology or New Market : The product must involve some kind of new technology or a new market. Not interested in me-too businesses. No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies. Hyper-local : The entire team should be located in the SF Bay Area.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

Technical progress and market traction are much slower and cost a lot more than anticipated. Management has the wrong pedigree, is geographically undesirable, competes in the wrong industry, and/or has a business model that lacks "scalability credibility" with the venture community. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. 2) Market .