Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. He co-founded it in partnership with High Alpha (we are LPs) and SVB. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Fred Wilson was his lead investor.

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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. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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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. I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. .

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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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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. ICAS® can then be scaled up across the customer’s portfolio bringing enterprise-wide benefits.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The technical mastermind behind Replay is Brian Hackett (CTO, co-founder) who has been thinking about and working on this concept for a long time… in fact, his PhD at Stanford 10+ years ago laid the foundation for Replay. And of course, they are hiring! And that leads us to why we’re so excited: the team!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

If you are a small business operator, risks are something you often want to avoid. Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. Overcoming Challenges of Growing Globally. Attracting Overseas Customers. Diversifying.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

Talent development can even strengthen a company’s investment portfolio. Depending on your startup’s needs, it can be a toss-up on whether to hire for attitude or skill. When he founded ClientLoyalty , Barnett leveraged the proven skill sets of his first two hires to attract more funding from investors.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. The result?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. CEO Network – CEO’s from the portfolio companies are introduced to each other.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

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. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. He co-founded it in partnership with High Alpha (we are LPs) and SVB. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Fred Wilson was his lead investor.

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Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 70

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. Contact + Operations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

” I want to do the best deals wherever they are, but I thought, most VCs I met didn’t have very good operational experience, so I thought, “Well, what if I created a blog called Both Sides of the Table and could emphasize the fact that I used to sit on your side of the table? [00:14:38] Technical founder.

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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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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. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020. Here we go! Epic Games. There are now 2.8B

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. The operational improvement research study I mention above is an example of this.

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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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Rob Go

JANUARY 18, 2012

In a prior post about what it’s like to be a VC I made the claim that even if an investor has operating experience, that experience gets stale after a few years. This led to the following question in my comments: “You mention that operational skills begin to decline 2 years into the job. Couple observations.

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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. In its first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants. Who hasn’t?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2022

Xenia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Planable, a content review and marketing collaboration platform used by over 5,000 teams behind brands such as Hyundai, Christian Louboutin, Viber, and United Nations. I think I, I was just having a conversation with my co-founder today on this topic. This is John Jantsch.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 21, 2013

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the unsung hero of many start-ups: the other founder. A lot has been written about the founder/CEO and her growth and evolution as a company grows. In the image above, most everyone knows the name and image of Larry Page - cofounder and now CEO of Google. Larry Page is the other founder.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

They have obligations to the founders they back and to the LPs they represent. The entire role is “find deals, execute deals, manage the portfolio.” . If they no longer have time for the third job, they need to admit that to both founders and LPs before stepping down. A great board is one of a company’s greatest assets.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 13, 2024

Pat’s recent blog post “ A VCs Most Critical Task ” both caught my eye and went in an unexpected direction: helping founders bring on great executives, while simultaneously preventing bad hires. Is it hiring for resume vs fit? PK: Yes, I’ve made every mistake as a founder. An executive now at a big co.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

One of their secret: acqui- hiring. If you wonder how to pick your next launch country first, see my earlier post here. ** One of the most important decisions any company of any size will make is how it will successfully launch operations in a new country (the following applies to launching in new cities or states within an existing country).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. And to keep executing large organizations hire employees with a range of skills and competencies. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Apple owned 0%.

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View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

These funds would regularly share deal flow with one another and could share the work in supporting founders and helping to push the company forward. This post will try to describe why this is happening and what repercussions are for founders and investors. Is This is Good or Bad for Founders?

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Portfolio company Jobber is an operations management platform for small home service businesses (e.g. We can learn a few key lessons from how Jobber’s co-founders Sam Pillar and Forrest Zeisler have built the company over these years: 1/ You can build a large company anywhere.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . 9% (1 / 12). 1) Market fund.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. How do you get to that point if you have that kind of a view of the world, of founders, and of this space? On Sushi and VC. You have to pick one.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Disclosure: * denotes a current or former Greylock portfolio company.). Once achieved, leadership in a Glengarry Glen Ross market can provide decades of substantially profitable operations, repaying and justifying the costs incurred in blitzscaling. Operational Scalability. billion and expenses of $2.9

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

If you are looking to add experienced people to your team but can’t afford to pay employees, look at finding a cofounder or using venture labor (hiring someone you pay in equity instead of cash). Use relationships in your hometown or the hometowns of your founders to seek investment from other cities and states.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

M&A experience (Morgan Stanley and later co-headed M&A for Barry Diller at IAC). Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles. So there you have it.

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