Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

He is the founder of Nudge, an analytics company, that was a commercialized product from his agency. Prior to Nudge, he co-founded an agency in New Zealand that was the 8th fastest-growing business at the time. He's the founder of Nudge, an analytics company that was started as a commercial venture or product from his own agency.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

Looking back, I believe that Jeff is one of most iconic, successful founders and CEOs of all time. Another of Bezos’ trademark strengths is his willingness to embrace management innovation. For example, one of the management innovations that distinguishes Amazon from all the other major tech companies is its writing culture.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

What is it, and how should founders think about it? Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. [Ed. NVV: Let’s talk about the seed stage specifically. We’d look at a company and the relationship we have with investors, management team, founders, etc.

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Term Sheet Equity Startup Seed Stage 120

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. Obviously they see big things in Wildfire. 4mm in Series A. 13mm in Series B.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Did I mention it only took the founder a month? From what I've seen, smart instutions are extremely interested in backing top new managers that show progress. They're just not very good at raising venture capital--which, in the later stage, has more to do with your own ability to run a sales process. There is no fork.

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Venture Capital Marketing Term Sheet Software Review 114

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. – Thoughtful fund management. When I talk with non-founding insiders at many alternative investment firms, I regularly hear complaints about the quality of firm management. The result is a poorly managed organization.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. – Thoughtful fund management. When I talk with non-founding insiders at many alternative investment firms, I regularly hear complaints about the quality of firm management. The result is a poorly managed organization.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

Between my experiences as a management consultant, as well as my product and marketing roles at multiple tech companies, I felt that I had enough operational experience to make that leap sooner than later. This can be particularly important for founders with “non-traditional” career backgrounds. It helps mitigate startup risk.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

I know that some founders feel uncomfortable with this as though they might somehow be sharing something so confidential that it ultimately hurts you. Many VCs will have a distribution curve where they’ll do a small number of early-stage deals (say $1.5–3 Why shouldn’t most founders just name a price? After all?—?we

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. Most importantly, we have regular meetings with later-stage VCs and enterprise clients both in the US and internationally to discuss our companies which fit their investment mandates. For example, consider public relations. . Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

In announcing these finalists, David Teten, Founder and Chairman of HBSAANY, and Partner at ff Venture Capital ( ffvc.com ), said “VCAP has introduced us to entrepreneurs looking at opportunities which would otherwise have been invisible to us. We think the potential of the companies we’ve met through this initiative is exceptional.”.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

In announcing these finalists, David Teten, Founder and Chairman of HBSAANY, and Partner at ff Venture Capital ( ffvc.com ), said “VCAP has introduced us to entrepreneurs looking at opportunities which would otherwise have been invisible to us. We think the potential of the companies we’ve met through this initiative is exceptional.”.

Programming 114

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 114

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2016

by Krista Morgan, CEO and co-founder of P2BInvestor. Anyone who has managed a growing business will tell you that there is a big difference between profit and cash flow. And if you have good cash management you can get through it. Krista Morgan is the CEO and co-founder of P2BInvestor. Asset-based lending.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. Entrepreneurs with early stage companies typically look for local funding before going out of region to pursue other funding sources.

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Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ). And so it goes.

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View from Seed

JUNE 5, 2018

We launched the Hiring Bootcamp to equip portfolio founders and hiring managers with the best practices around building a hiring machine , so they can maximize their chances of getting the best talent into the door efficiently. The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. What are some of the unique benefits and constraints from the point of view of a founder? . However, founders shouldn’t take money from corporate VCs because of an exit expectation. Can the founders communicate well?

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 22, 2013

Later stage companies have the reverse situation. In these businesses changing market or product destroys a lot of value but it is possible to bring in new managers (with pain). The product and market can be changed (with pain) but if you take the team out the business is unlikely to survive.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We’re a crossover fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.” You have secret doubts about your co-founder. It’s not.

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Monaco Cofounder Chicago Mexico 420

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Many MBA programs still cater too much to the needs of large, corporate management jobs or prepare students to enter big consulting companies or investments banks. Erin’s main points: “As a former tech sales executive, I agree with many of [Mark's] lessons — when applied to later-stage, post-traction point startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. The sooner you pass your work on to a later stage, the sooner you can find out how they will receive it. If peer pressure doesnt work then it looks like a management problem. Small batches mean faster feedback.

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San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

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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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

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. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Mint is the best way to manage your money. This is how you can determine if the company management is optimistic (good), delusional (sometimes good, often necessary), or just plain pathological liars (always bad). But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. Live your life.

Software Review 68

Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Richard Witten , special advisor on entrepreneurship to the President of Columbia University ; and Kathryn Minshew , co-founder of the popular online career platform TheMuse.com both joined me in Sirius’ New York studio and shared their version of being knocked down and coming back stronger. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2011

It almost invariably means being dismissed by arrogant investors who show up a half hour late, totally unprepared and then instead of saying ‘no’ give you non-committal rejections like ‘we invest at later stage companies.’ Tip of the Hat to Michael Arrington for The Pirate in the Arena , his post today pointing out this one.).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. The Innovation Center at Houston’s TMC (TMCx), co-located with Johnson and Johnson’s J-Labs, and the Center for Medical Device Innovation, drive medical innovation. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

You could argue that choosing the name “first round” paints them into a corner in case they want to ever do a late stage fund, but I suspect they named it FRC precisely because they wanted to excel at early-stage investing. I know that I call them often to co-invest.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

When speaking with founders and private growth investors, we hear countless references to “multiples paid” on current or near-term revenue; both obsess over this because a higher multiple translates to a higher valuation. But would that be a good deal for the shareholders entering at this stage?

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.”. You have secret doubts about your co-founder. You’re where you should be.

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Monaco Cofounder Chicago Mexico 122

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. He's been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 11, 2020

My Blitzscaling co-author and friend Chris Yeh helped me record a Greymatter podcast episode where I share some of the great memories of and learnings from working with Jeff. One of Jeff’s superpowers is creating a culture of compassionate management AND performance. The following essay is a condensed version of that conversation.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. When I started my first company in Berlin, I lived and worked in my apartment with one of my co-founders. Co-Up , mobilesuite , Raumstation. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Wesabe taught us that social doesn't necessarily make managing finances online more appealing--and given Facebook's propensity to change privacy settings, I'm not sure a lot of people are going to want to manage their money on Facebook. What will Facebook do to things? What's the business model?

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

As my classmates were rushing off to high-paying, high-powered jobs on Wall Street, I joined a Series A start-up with 30 employees as a product manager, making $65,000 per year - lower than my pre-MBA salary at management consultancy The Boston Consulting Group. Your co-workers in one start-up become your co-founders in another.

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