Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. We knew he had to be an investment partner. We settled on Venture Partner as is now being reported and also picked up here.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. I also learned about this amazing resource in Chicago called BuiltInChicago which I intend to use for my trip there in November.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” I mention all of this because this has been a journey that we at Upfront Ventures have thought a lot about over the years. It was more hedge fund than venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Of partner? It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). And so is venture capital. Picking a VC is hard. You don’t really have much to go on to decide who would make a good fit.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

We are so proud to be a part of the entrepreneurial and technology community in Chicago where we are based. The Thin Skin of the Venture Capital Market - crowdspring.co/1xaoN3x. The @crowdSPRING community partners with US State Dept for Social Impact | Justmeans – crowdspring.co/1ux55RH. 10baTD3.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

You grew up with a guy who went into law and has some Chicago money connections. Unlike a venture capital firm that states its criteria on its website and has forms, e-mail addresses, etc to encourage outreach, your site does a lot better job of saying "Go away!". remember Woody Harrelson on Cheers? For myself, I've been lucky.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Around 2012, escape rooms became extremely in Budapest – and most people still consider Budapest as the escape room capital of the world. It only seemed logical for Akos and his partners to bring this concept to the US. In 5 years, an international takeover after partnering with the right investors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Why I Sold My Startup Instead Of Taking VC Money | Built In Chicago - [link]. The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. Chicago’s Startup Community Grows Outside Of Groupon’s Shadow | Chicagoist - [link].

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Testing hypotheses with doctors, patients, payers, providers, purchasing departments, strategic partners is hard. It looks like someone is actually pulling this together in a life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space in Chicago called MATTER. Schonthal found that others in Chicago saw the vision.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I learned long ago at the University of Chicago where I got my MBA that investors tend to want to invest when markets become over-valued and sell when they become undervalued. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital. So at GRP Partners we’re very active now.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

I found out he had a trip scheduled to Chicago. I sent him a message telling him I’d be in Chicago on such-and-such dates. I technically WOULD be in Chicago. They called the partner in America responsible for the project, Grieg Coppe, put him on the phone and he said, “what the hell are you doing there?” I wasn’t lying?—?I

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” Then everyone just started calling me a serial entrepreneur.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2017

by Mark Hasebroock, Founder and Managing Partner, Dundee Venture Capital. The rising prominence of Omaha’s startup scene feels similar to the excited vibes coming out of Chicago five or ten years ago, when Chicago was on its way to becoming one of the premier destinations for venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I am often reminded of the story of the building of Chicago and the rise of modern skyscrapers of glass & steel with non-load-bearing walls as talked about in The Fountainhead but also chronicled in history books and in the many architectural tours I’ve taken in Chicago. Failure is critical.

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David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

In early 2012, my HBS Alumni Angels colleagues and I launched the Venture Capital Access Program (VCAP), an initiative to help women and minority-led businesses to raise capital from the Harvard alumni angel community. Several key partners include HBSAANY, New York Angels, and others to be announced. .

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.” More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Robert McKenna III , a well-known medical malpractice lawyer , is a partner in the Huntington Beach, California law firm Kjar, McKenna & Stockalper LLP. McKenna had a brief exchange with a contact who worked at a trading and venture capital firm in February 2020, when cases of the pandemic started to be reported across the U.S.,

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

by TX Zhuo , managing partner at Karlin Ventures. As Scott Reeder of the Chicago Sun-Times proclaims that ride-hailing service Uber and the sharing economy are here to stay , leaders from industries across the spectrum are trying to decipher the secret to the company’s success. Uber has been on fire lately.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. You can follow George on Twitter at @georgedeeb and @RedRocketVC. One of the questions I get, more often than not, is what is the appropriate valuation of my business.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 3, 2016

The 21 year old Chicago Bull rookie Michael Jordan, starting his career with no professional resume or accomplishments, or his 40 year Washington Wizards version, possessive of 6 NBA Finals MVPs, over 30,000 points scored, and universally regarded as the greatest player in basketball history?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

Companies can't find the partners and employees they need. That's what I fear when I see places like Berlin, Chicago, and Toronto putting on startup events--not enough anchors to make the whole thing stick and to turn the excitement into real opportunity. Ideas get poorly vetted because the funders aren't current on tech trends.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

George, Chicago, Des Moines, Burlington, Seattle, Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Lexington (KY), and Palm Desert. I’m spending all of my extra time with my three partners at Foundry Group , who I love working with, including a top secret two day retreat, time together at Defrag and Blur , and a few magic meals along the way.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2017, Austin was the topped-ranked city by funding amount outside of the Western, Northeast and Chicago regions. Quake, the venture capital firm I co-founded, is expanding to Austin and will be launching its first cohort in the city this month. Last year, nearly $1.2 billion in funding poured into Austin deals.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

The startup takes off, raising venture capital funds faster than you can say “storybook ending.”. million in venture capital —and they continue to grow, with plans for a mobile app and potential overseas expansion. An unlikely combination: Poker winnings and venture capital. See Also Market Research.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I know it’s not single-handed as he has both fantastic partners at Foundry Group and many other community leaders. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. Venture Capital. Community Leaders + Organizers.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I had to laugh a bit reading it. Many of my best friends have MBAs.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

They quickly went into production at Sylvania Electronic Defense Labs down the street in Mountain View and Hallicrafters in Chicago. The second was when a Southern Californian aircraft company decided to break into the missiles and space field by partnering with Stanford electronics expertise.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2016 was a banner year for boldstart , and we could not have achieved any of this without the amazing support of our boldstart family and the founders who have given us the opportunity to invest in and partner with them. geographically 2 in NYC, 3 Bay Area, 1 Canada, 1 LA, 1 Chicago.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 19, 2018

I hear a lot these days about gender imbalance in male dominated industries, Venture Capital being one of them. While not as imbalanced as physics, there were still more men then women that advanced to the partner track. A few years after, I found myself in Chicago working at Motorola’s marketing department.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

I had MIT, Harvard, Chicago, and other top-tier schools interested in buying it and Wharton actually using the solution (and they kept it for four years). We service 350 retail clients today with 100 employees, 40 partners, and a solution that is rated #1 in our industry by Forrester Research and Jupiter Research.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

These notions of an independent ethos don’t map that well to what we know about venture capital, which is a very staged and formulaic way of building a company. As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. Because venture does provide a lot of good things to a bunch of really great companies.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 7, 2018

Once every few years we’ll combine it with a trip somewhere (New York, Chicago) just to change the atmosphere a little, but even then, other than a fancy dinner somewhere, it’s on the modest side. Whoever is on the board is not allowed to speak – they have to listen as the other partners reviews the portfolio company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). Partners make investment decisions. Also recognize that WITHIN a VC you have partners who focus on different areas. Most VC partners do 2-3 deals per year max (except for the higher volume shops).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. I had come across a guy from the US named Michael Rhattigan who had transfered from the Chicago office to a place called Sophia Antipolis in the south of France (mid way between Nice & Cannes).

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. I like the idea, and recognize the problem.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

News )—Stanford GSB, Harvard Business School, UPenn Wharton, Chicago Booth, MIT Sloan, Kellogg, UC Berkeley Haas, and Columbia Business School—and eight of the top ten global MBA programs , are all on the list of unicorns. As a Stanford alum and current HBS student, I was happy to see the MBA programs of both schools at the top of the list.

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