Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. I’ve seen people succeed as solo founders – but I think not having a co-founder makes an already hard journey that much harder. The rest is history.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So I recently re-shared a 2019 blog post where I’d basically advised founders who’ve raised seed capital to worry less about “how will I raise the next round” and more about “how will I execute my plan?” Do you think I should asterisk these types of posts with a “YMMV, if you’re a non-white male founder all these things will be harder?”

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 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. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies. N etwork – We organize events regularly to build out our community.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Can your lack of interest or skill in “selling” be counter-balanced by a cofounder or team that’s great at it? And a non-CEO cofounder who can sell the heck out of your company is just about the next best thing to being skilled yourself. Are you a founder who trained themselves to become a better salesperson? Yes and No.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

GrabCAD & Professional Communities. Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. Technical founders .

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. .

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Noreen Sablotsky is the founder and CEO of Imalac , a revolutionary company in the breastfeeding world. eld of marketing and sales for Ciba- Geigy Pharmaceuticals before co-founding Noven Pharmaceuticals in 1986. Sablotsky continued her professional career as Vice-President of Portfolio Development for Jacobs Investments, LLC.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, product designers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. Mobile Mondays : Boston chapter of the world’s largest Mobile professional community. WorkBar Boston - Flexible co-working space near South Station.

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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. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. This investment will accelerate our work to build the metaverse and create spaces where players can have fun with friends, brands can build creative and immersive experiences and creators can build a community and thrive.”

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

My partner ( Steve Schlafman ) and I recently launched Tapestry , an exercise for founders to invest in their relationships, and it was met with an incredible reaction. I had done a lot of this work in the past with founding teams and co-founders and never had a great catch all way of explaining it. to launch Tapestry.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. The Grand-daddy.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In that capacity, I co-founded the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Venture Capital Access Program, a joint venture with the National Association of Investment Companies (“NAIC”), which helps women and diverse entrepreneurs raise capital. Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype. Are you politically active?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Old and new friends have reached out to welcome us to their community and share ideas about how we could play an impactful role in this remarkable city and state. Even in 2020, a difficult year by any measure, the Austin community has surpassed all of my expectations. In my last post, I highlighted Swivel and OJO Labs.

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David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

I’ve just launched a new Meetup and online community I’m heading up with David. As one of the lead engineers at ff Venture Capital , I spend most of my day building custom software solutions that enhance our firm’s process–tools that range from portfolio investment management to co-investor and cap table tracking and more.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This is already happening, but there will be an explosion of rolling funds, operator angels, and micro investors who want to co-invest in friends, companies, and cohorts they are a part of. Maybe the founders are the micro VCs we have been waiting for? There is also a network effect of portfolio companies with early GPs.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. Half our portfolio is consumer. On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

When Chad Pytel introduced me to Bryan Helmkamp , CEO/Co-founder of Code Climate , I knew that I had to pay attention. I shared a link to Code Climate with a number of CTOs/VPs of Engineering in my network, both inside and outside the NextView portfolio, just asking for their quick opinion.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Community Resources. Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Our Newsletters Contact Us.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

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. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?—?AYX

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. That’s the first thing anyone trying to raise a fund needs to understand, as well as anyone thinking about investing in one.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup. Technical founder. When you meet with founders, do you just see all across the board, like this guy you mentioned with the mortgage, or who wants a mortgage? [00:32:26] President is kind of a weird title.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

The sudden arrival of the global pandemic has shifted the playbook for founders and venture capitalists. As high-conviction, seed stage investors, we are inherently relationship-driven, and we value meeting exceptional founders face-to-face. The majority had dedicated more time to guiding the portfolio companies through the pandemic.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

shout out to our portfolio company Echo3D who’s working on this) Improved collaboration tools By default, both the Unity and Unreal level editors only support a single designer editing a level at a time. But it can also present an opportunity for new founders entering the space. Jonathan Lai, General Partner, A16Z Gaming fund.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Today’s online communities for those with chronic illnesses are quite outdated. One example is Wana , a community that fosters hope, direction and healing for people with chronic and invisible conditions. I’m going to continue the trend by highlighting some of the key areas in healthcare that I’m most excited about right now.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Gina Diaz, entrepreneur and top immigration and real estate attorney, Ms. What relationship do you see between immigrants and the startup community? Diaz: I passionately believe that immigrants are a major part of a startup community.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As startup founders ask themselves this question, some of the answers might be specific to their product: i.e. we should improve our onboarding, change our freemium model, etc. Or Briga, Co-founder and CEO of Novos.gg. We co-develop our product with our community. Alon Grinshpoon, Co-founder and CEO of Echo3D.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

My talk was about the 7 lessons I’ve learned on the journey from founder to CEO. with the portfolio to show for it. I started off my talk emphasizing that the journey matters most in your transformation from founder to CEO. The CEO also has the ability to shape how the company serves its communities. in our Series A.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Tal Raviv is the co-founder of Ecquire. Whether that means chasing down a technical co-founder, learning to code, or even building that “Lean MVP” – the conventional wisdom is that without tech abilities you’re nothing more than a dude (or dudette) with a Powerpoint. This post was originally published on OnStartups.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

L to R: Tiara Zolniez (Co-Founder & Sales), Dr. Roshawnna Novellus (Co-Founder & CEO), Alisha Griffey (COO) The Forrest Four-Cast: February 4, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx.

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community?

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