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.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

At best I think business plan competitions are a waste of time. Business Plan Versus Business Models. Where did the idea that startups write business plans come from? A simple way to think about it is that in a startup no business plan survives first contact with customers.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. Absolutely not.

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Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights , which shows venture capital is back. billion to work across 738 financing deals with U.S. Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active. So what can you do to get to the head of the venture capital investment queue?

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Venture Capital Revenue Elevator Pitch Silicon Valley 233

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. For these businesses, it is imperative to get funding from the start without which the company cannot be set up. Equity investors. Debt investors.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

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. The Exit Problem.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

” I wrote about this movement in the link to the left and also published this widely read presentation on the topic. He wanted to work in venture capital and I was new to the industry and in no position to hire anybody. He turned to Mike Jones at Science who was newly set up as an accelerator of sorts or a venture studio.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

This article is part of our “ Business Startup Guide ”—a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! People often ask us for a list of steps they can use to start their own business. From business type to business model to physical location, there are so many variables! Pablo Picasso.

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Venture Capital Business Plan Limited Liability Company Finance 166

Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2018

Sometimes you only get 10 minutes to pitch your business opportunity to the investors (or less in some cases). Create a presentation. You can use our free pitch deck template for Powerpoint that can help you get started, and there are lots of other tools that can help you put together a professional-looking presentation.

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Hockey Stick Exit Strategy Technical Review Angel Investor 164

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford's Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. 9-to-5 Venture Capital. Ironically one of the things that's holding back the Finnish cluster is Tekes , the government organization for financing research, development and innovation in Finland.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 158

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. Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Bigfoot Capital. Decathlon Capital. Key elements: . “We

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

And EVEN if you ARE an experienced entrepreneur, all but just a few VCs still want to see customer validation, business model validation and traction, before they will invest. I call it drip-financing. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Picking the right attorney in your startup is as important as picking the right business partner. You can’t underestimate the importance of selecting an attorney who “gets” your business model, your market opportunity, and most importantly, your fundraising and exit strategy. Can they create and advise on a Capitalization Table?

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Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence Dilution 118

Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection.

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Sacramento Framework Customer Development Lean 308

Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

Is this a big enough market to support a venture funded business? It might be a great idea with a solid business model but it still might not be a good fit for venture funding. If it doesn’t require much capital to get started and make money then it might be a better idea to bootstrap it.

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Technical Review Startup Texas Email 69

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. The reason I’ve been able to generate a significant amount of content is that almost everything I write is a sanitized version of a memo or presentation I made for my work, not marketing for the sake of marketing. I host on Hostforweb **.

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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.

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Technical Review Austin Texas Cofounder 89

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

Now with customers and early revenue, it was out raising its first round of venture money. Not only did their sales curve look like a textbook case of a VC-friendly hockey stick, but their Lessons Learned funding presentation was an eye-opener.). Lets take venture capital and grow this thing into a real business.”.

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Hockey Stick Venture Capital Startup Cofounder 284

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or to optimize this search. to optimize this search.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. I should have been suspicious when he said, “I’d like to take a copy of your presentation to show him.”

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Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 232

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react. Now that I’m more often on the other side of the term-sheet, I’ve tried to present term-sheets to entrepreneurs accompanied by a philosophical explanation of what I’m proposing, and why. This is why a bottom up approach is more credible.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Growthink Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

His point was that while those executives were certainly “foxes” - great resumes, hard workers, and excellent communicators - they were lacking as “hedgehogs,” pursuing an inefficient and difficult to scale business model. We passed on the investment.

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Social Media Business Model Leadership Operations 48

Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2022

Close to 30,000 of them will land angel investments , and fewer than 5,000 get venture capital. In more than a decade of angel investment, and having participated in hundreds of pitches—I’ve never seen one business succeed without multiple rejections along the way. They want your business to be able to scale up.

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Venture Capital Intellectual Property Angel Investor Bootstrapping 146

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

To start the discussion, we presented a few data points on how our SaaS 13 Index (13 public SaaS companies) has been affected by the downturn - and unfortunately, the hit has been pretty hard, with the Index losing 60% year to date as illustrated by the chart below: SaaS 13 Index (Jan. Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 4:04 PM. Thank you.

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Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

My fears were met on Day 1 with many presentations being unpolished, several me-too ideas and a general malaise. VoiceBase - Transcription and search of voice communications (presentations, conference calls, etc.) The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Anyway, the presentation went well so I wanted to share a Cliffs Note version here (the actual presentation was 2+ hours including Q&A). Advertising.

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Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Growthink Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

Participant Limitation To preserve the intimacy of the presentation, we are limiting attendees to the first 35 registrants, so Reserve Your Seat today! Business Planning Entrepreneurship Financing Investing Jay Turo Management Venture Capital'

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

We told the story of Credential Cabinet’s past, present, and future in seven minutes. Throughout the accelerator we had been refining our business model and our product. In order to create our pitch, we looked at basic models for a pitch deck. At our pitch night, we were the third of seven companies to present.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I’ve listed below the points I recommend you cover when pitching your business to early-stage investors, including but definitely not limited to ff Venture Capital. First, I suggest you send a 7-10 page presentation deck (or link to a deck) with a one-page introductory email. Business Model.

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Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation Prospectus Early Stage 60

NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Early stage business investors such as angel investors or venture capital companies are generally only interested in companies with great potential for success and a high return on investment. The potential of the business and your unique selling proposition should be clearly described in your business plan.

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Business Plan Forecast Venture Capital Angel Investor 51

Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

They have a standard presentation on bootstrapping, which they present around the country. Kennet has a white paper on that summarizes why bootstrapped businesses are the best. Jon Fisher purposely avoided raising venture capital in his ventures. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Software Review 28

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. I graduated from George Mason University with a self-designed degree in social entrepreneurship, choosing to focus on internships and courses that went beyond scantron tests and final powerpoint presentations.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital 43

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. Because the new CEO had built a team capable of and comfortable with executing an existing business model, the company would fail or get acquired. A 20th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. Board Control.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 252

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

Earlier this month, my co-founders and I raised our sixth round of venture capital funding for Nvoicepay. This is my only experience, and of all the venture capitalists who passed on the early funding rounds, no one ever said, “We’re not going to invest in your company because you’re a woman.”

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

If you’ve never written a business plan before, take a look at these sample medical startup business plans. At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. If you don’t have the right customers, your business simply won’t survive. You will need to demonstrate the results as well.

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