Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2021

That’s the phrase which stuck with me from Erin Griffith’s NYTimes article this spring about the latest set of wealth creating events in the tech community. Those of us who’ve had access to the right hiring manager, or cap table, or referral network have already put ourselves in a position to capitalize, but the pie can be expanded.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I’m saying that 11-20 were hit harder by the downturn where as before they were often evaluated similarly by the venture community and rewarded commensurately. When $20B outcomes occur everyone on the cap table eats well. But think of this as equivalent to average salary of Top 10 picks in the NBA draft vs picks 11-20.

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VC Adventure

MAY 10, 2020

That clearly isn’t the way the SBA is interpreting the Act nor how they’re guiding the business community (but it is likely closer to what Congress intended when they passed the Act). Exactly what this means isn’t clear. Just where the line is between need (and payroll preservation) and greed isn’t very clear.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While at the company — and especially once she departed — Claire became one of the people I always hoped to add to a cap table or startup board. I cannot wait for Claire’s book and predict it’ll become the next Radical Candor, Principles, Build, etc for the tech community. Congrats CHJ!

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

What if it turns out she feels most herself in the LGBTQ+ community? I’m supposed to participate in a tech and startup community under these conditions? Or, if it isn’t about my daughter, knowing that it’s happening to other families in my community—the founders of the companies I back? I have a daughter. Their employees?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky. He has a lovely family – Joy and Zion – who are also active members of the LA community. Relationships. So what gives? Mark, why wouldn’t you fund him? I saw too much of myself in Hamet.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

My experience with early valuations by founders for friends… I’ve arrived at a significant number of companies that were looking for additional growth capital after a “friends and family” round and had to “clean up” the cap table more than a few times over the years. It is most often a win-win for both you and the strategic partner.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 21, 2017

The startup community has taken the ‘go big or go home’ mantra so much to heart that good mid-level outcomes – including exits in the hundreds of millions – aren’t seen as sufficiently ambitious. That’s because there’s no money in solving them (otherwise the market would have been solved already).

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. That way, startups only have one entity in the cap table, which simplifies documentation and structure. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. → Learn More.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

From their website: “We invest via a Shared Earnings Agreement , a new investment model developed transparently with the community, and designed to align us with founders who want to run a profitable business and never be forced to raise follow-on financing or sell their business.” Limited amount of existing debt and a clean cap table”.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. Included in that deck was something that caught some folks by surprise. However, these are important updates for your board to know.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

He’s totally tapped into the startup communities in Silicon Valley and a bit in LA. I’ve met several people from Cooley Godward who have stellar reputations in this category. I know Mike Lincoln in Washington DC does. I worked with Sam Angus at Fenwick & West. So it doesn’t have to be a small firm.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2014

It allows you to truly focus on your product/idea instead of cap tables and keeping investors happy. Plug into a community. Consider working part-time as a transition into entrepreneurship. I’m a big fan of bootstrapping a business instead of beginning with seed rounds. Have an original idea.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is above and beyond whatever events and educational opportunities the fund provides for its community, which could also be very useful. Less than that and you need something else to bring to the table. Access to other investors. b) Reputation for adding value. I’m sure you’re very smart and very experienced. So is everyone else.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. I joined Glossier because of all the things I hoped I would learn: about consumer businesses, the beauty industry, brand and community building, and beyond. Enter Box. They gave me a shot. Working at Box was a revelation.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g., 1) Manage the firm .

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

I’ve arrived at a significant number of companies that were looking for additional growth capital after a “friends and family” round, and had to “clean up” the cap table more than a few times over the years. Taking this kind of money has a number of pitfalls you should be aware of.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

I thought it might be helpful to provide transparency on how we and many of our VC peers think about optimizing the cap table for our companies. . First, a formal definition: According to Capital Dynamics , “Co-investments are direct investments in a company made alongside and on the same terms as a lead [General Partner].

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

I’ve arrived at a significant number of companies that were looking for additional growth capital after a “friends and family” round, and had to “clean up” the cap table more than a few times over the years. Taking this kind of money has a number of pitfalls you should be aware of.

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Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 69

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

While the historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship, some GPs actively participate in LP/GP communities to find and build relationships with potential LPs. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb. Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything. Here's what it actually looks like. Eric Ries : Hey man.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. You can no longer simply look at the cap table and estimate your return.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 23, 2023

I can vouch for his genuine optimism Hunter Walk: You got to work with a number of different VCs on your cap table for Anchor. Our conversations are always enjoyable, spanning tech, parenting and culture, so I decided to ask him Five Questions here. Who was the best one and why was it Homebrew?

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

J-Angels “is a community and a VC fund of top American investors (Jewish-American & Israeli-born) in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.”. “Index the Best” – Only invest in companies that have brand name firms on the cap table and/or as leads. 7) Stage-defined funds.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? I started to go to some community college classes on programming and things like that, and started to build early websites. Do we need more regulation in this area or less? That's an important piece.

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Haystack

JANUARY 13, 2020

Plaid is known within the startup and VC community as a strong company, but it is also a relatively quiet company in terms of its own PR and social media chatter. Earlier today, the news leaked that Visa was to acquire fintech startup Plaid for $5.3B.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

WeWork needed billions in a cap table crushing lifeline and Knotel went bankrupt as well. What compounded The Wing’s pandemic woes wasn’t so much being a terrible employer or community steward as much as it was promising it wouldn’t ever be terrible. Community building isn’t much easier, especially in progressive circles.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2017

What we see is that more and more female founders want women on their cap table: A couple of founders have re-opened rounds for us; one even got a major investor to sell us secondary. Look, fundamental change doesn’t happen fast in a community that’s as homogeneous and closed as venture capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

More women and the BIPOC community will use social networks if they’re not being harassed on them. These people want to make the technology ecosystem the wild west where anyone that doesn’t have privilege and power just gets run over and I fully believe their views are going to make them less desirable to have on cap tables.

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