David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

How Modern Marketers Earn Trust Today written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Melanie Deziel. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Melanie Deziel. Questions I ask Melanie Deziel: [2:25] How does trust fit into marketing? [3:37] Storyfuel.co.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

One of the highlights of my trip was a startup dinner which included Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of 37signals. At the time, they had just come out with their new book " Rework " had downloaded a copy to my Kindle, but hadn't had a chance to read it yet. Now I have. Yes, even bootstrappers.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

My job is to look for new opportunities and new markets. In addition, 83% of companies had a racial composition that was entirely Caucasian, while only 12% of founders were Asian and less than 1% of founders were African-American. I break down the opportunity set this way: Target Market. Mass Market.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Short answer: no. They also avoid Reg D.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. how to market our products and company. Experience.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

The schedule of panels in New York is: Monday, January 14 th : Angel Investing Best Practices – 9-11AM, Edwards Wildman offices (750 Lexington, 8th floor; at 59th Street). Promising start-ups exist in the region but the lack of a robust ecosystem for IT companies is a challenge, as is the lack of a link with US market.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

9- How my life and finances came to be. It’s about my life and how I managed my finances , and now I want to help other people that happen to be in the same shoes. We picked up this name because I, as the founder, consider myself a nerd. Thanks to Lisa Sigman, intheknowlegal ! #9- Photo Credit: Derek Sall.

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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. 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. Bigfoot Capital.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

I find it intriguing that species not only evolve against their environment, but their environment co-evolves simultaneously against them. When you look at a biological ecosystem, the creatures in it have spent thousands and thousands of years co-evolving against one another in a careful dance. A nice account of Stuart’s story is here.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a business which helps enterprises to execute initiatives which require coordination across diverse stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a critical client, or lobby for a change in regulation. I’m a VC in New York with 8 years of experience; more about me here.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

One of the impact initiatives I’m proudest of is founding Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York , a nonprofit and now the East Coast’s largest angel group. It provides users in emerging markets mobile access to their financial lives, who were previously typically not served by financial institutions. Why is that?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Connect with John Jantsch on LinkedIn This episode of The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by ActiveCampaign Try ActiveCampaign free for 14 days with our special offer. Exclusive to new customers—upgrade and grow your business with ActiveCampaign today! Duct Tape Marketing podcast listeners who sign up via that link.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

We’ve collated a number of different stories to show you how you can go about getting funding to grow your business or to launch a new venture. Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. They emailed billionaire investor Mark Cuban, asking him for financing.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. “You 1) Twitter. 3) Facebook.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a business which helps enterprises to execute initiatives which require coordination across diverse stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a critical client, or lobby for a change in regulation. It’s preferable that you live in the New York tri-state area. A nonprofit?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. A big thank you to my friend Josh Webb who provided the transcription for This Week in Venture Capital with Tige Savage , Managing Director and co-founder of Revolution.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2013

Once a year New York City is overcome at 5 p.m. I cleaned parks in Brooklyn, served meals in soup kitchens, and mentored underprivileged youth on personal finance. By Melissa Thompson, CEO of Talk Session. The foundations and processes we establish early on yield exponential returns in perpetuity.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Or maybe the co-founders have a poisonous relationship that will hinder the companys growth. Maybe they never thought about product-market fit. Check out the tips below from founders, CEOs and investors alike. Make sure that new hires understand your rate of innovation. Have another tip from your own experience?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For the next entry in The Startup Magazine’s founder interview series , we are featuring Alejandro Russo, founder of Candela Mamajuana. He seized the opportunity to bring a unique offering to the beverage market. Candela is not Alejandro’s first startup. Candela is as pure and fresh as can be. Quality control?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 23, 2022

How Self-Coaching Can Transform Your Life And Career written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with David Novak. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview David Novak. More About The Certified Marketing Manager Program Powered By Duct Tape Marketing: Learn more here.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The first step in the process of expansion is identifying which markets are of the most strategic significance to your business. Once you’ve targeted a market, however, things can quickly become convoluted and overwhelming. BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S. Follow Miguel on Twitter @MiguelValdes.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. the company raised a strong $3.3M

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To draw titular inspiration from a New York Magazine article entitled Ellen Pao and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove (we’ll talk more about Pao later on), I entered into this topic less with the desire to try to “prove” a specific point, but rather to explore an issue that continues to rise to the top of conversation in the entrepreneurial space.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In the summer of 2015, our co-founder/managing editor, Stephanie Choporis, was a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and tasked with the following assignment: develop an idea for a new media product. The market for podcast consumption also continues to grow! Sounds like a great team.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Tom Peters. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Tom Peters. Take The Marketing Assessment: Like this show? Connect with Tom on Twitter: @tom_peters. Check it out.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

“There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones. There’s also a small New York team that works out of a coworking space.)

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 21, 2021

Founded in Bucharest, and now headquartered now in New York City, UiPath rang the bell this morning at the NYSE, becoming the largest public cloud company born in Europe. After going $0 to $1mm in their first 10 years, UiPath has now hockey-sticked to over $600mm in revenue in 2020, and the automation market is still in early innings.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2015

The narrative I often hear goes something like this: “Consumer companies are all about great marketing, and Boston doesn’t have enough great consumer marketers.”. Now, for context, there are a number of classic consumer companies headquartered in Boston, including Gillette, New Balance, Keurig, Staples, and a few more.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Finance, IT, Legal).

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The YCombinator founder believes this means great things for entrepreneurs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

So I considered resources that I use on a regular basis, that provide real value to me in my own life as a startup co-Founder and that I think others will benefit from. My favorite business section of any newspaper is the one I read daily in The New York Times. Photo: Armando Maynez.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. The company's market cap at the time of their entry into the public markets topped $100 billion dollars. I'm curious.

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