David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Some VCs have identified a number of new advantages that distinguish them in the marketplace: – Portfolio acceleration. I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit. – Portfolio company diversity.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Some VCs have identified a number of new advantages that distinguish them in the marketplace: – Portfolio acceleration. I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit. – Portfolio company diversity.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

And What This Means For Founders. In some ways it’s ALWAYS to an investor’s benefit to suggest a potential new investment wouldn’t be competitive to an existing portfolio company, and it’s ALWAYS to the current portfolio company’s benefit to suggest it might be. So what’s a founder to do?

Early Stage 114

Early Stage Cofounder Vertical Portfolio 114

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.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

The reality today is that capital is more available than ever and entrepreneurs have become more sophisticated, so founders are looking for more than just cash from their venture backers. I’ve seen many founders not fully grasp how the venture capital business works and what incentives investors have.

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). Obviously they see big things in Wildfire.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

The type of deals and industries they invest in, the company stages, and the amount they invest depends on the individual or angel group. I have pitched to hundreds of angel investors over the years as a result of co-founding two tech companies and raising just shy of $1M in angel capital. 51 percent). What impresses angels?

Angel Investor 161

Angel Investor Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 161

View from Seed

JUNE 5, 2018

Last week, we hosted our very first portfolio-only Hiring Bootcamp in NYC, led by NextView’s talent advisor Kristen Caldwell. The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages. Intense discussion on what are the right metrics to track around recruiting.

Hiring 120

Hiring Portfolio Metrics B2C 120

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? Nearly half of the teams I’ve backed have female founders.

Venture Capital 162

Venture Capital Cofounder Deal Flow Later Stage 162

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.

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Advisory Board Greece Cofounder 60

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

This followed the firms founder Don Valentine handing leadership early to Mike Moritz and Doug Leone who then entrusted Jim Goetz. He did what every LP did, looked at returns, talked to portfolio companies, talked with our competitors and so forth. And so it goes. Lindel Eakman led the discussion with Fred and Andy.

Leadership 161

Leadership LP Venture Capital Silicon Valley 161

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. Edward’s University.

Venture Capital 54

Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

Version One Ventures

MAY 22, 2018

Some of the best later-stage investors walk founders through an institutionalized “reverse” pitch. At Version One, we effectively act as a hotline: we strive to be the first investor that our founders call and often times, it is because we are the most responsive. Outside of formal check-ins (i.e.

Cap Table 60

Cap Table Cofounder Syndicate Syndication 60

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most are sitting on large portfolios of private companies that are raising money now or will need to do so in the future and they know that they’re up against some headwinds. So the multiples paid by publics matter and when they drop, the late-stage markets drop, too. There is reason for despondency.

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Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

A good example of this is Peter Boyce at General Catalyst, who seemed to be everywhere and seemed to know everyone when he was a senior at Harvard (in addition to having been a cofounder of Rough Draft Ventures, HackHarvard, and working at a USV funded startup, among other things).

Technical Review 28

Technical Review Due Diligence Deal Flow Early Stage 28

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

That’s because the making of the company relies on the founders, the CEO, the executives, the team members–in other words, the people who are putting in 80 to 100 hours per week, rather than the board members who are putting in one to two hours per week. Right now, our whole bet is on the CEO and the founders and making them successful.

Startup 36

Startup Cofounder Advertising Hiring 36

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. He says they are just as selective on seed investments as they are in later stage deals. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO.

San Francisco 230

San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

And that product is a highly engaged seed-stage investment where we are usually the lead or co-lead in a round and will often take a board seat. I’d also question a founder who asks his or her investors to comment falsely on something — that puts the investor in an awkward spot.

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Boston Syndicate Syndication eCommerce 120

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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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

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.

Community 304

Community Los Angeles Startup Silicon Valley 304

thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

While the initial fund is $120M we will have access to ru-Net’s (the Russian LP) $700M of capital to support growth of portfolio companies and opportunistically invest at later stages where we can add value beyond capital. As a venture capitalist, I am excited that RTP will address these market gaps.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Ghana Venture Capital India 69

Version One Ventures

MAY 15, 2019

Most importantly, we loved the vision that Mike Howell , Dolly’s co-founder and CEO, has for the company and the kind of world-class culture he has created. While this might be a later stage investment than what we usually do, we think there is tremendous potential here to build a multi-billion-dollar company.

Demand 24

Demand Seattle Later Stage Cofounder 24

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Because it is a “series&# I plan to get into some of the deeper complexities of funds such as “cross over funds&# and “why VC’s hate to price their own deals&# at a later stage. You were a VP at a company that sold for $200 million making the founder very wealthy. The last post was a high-level primer.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Term Sheet Early Stage Silicon Valley 265

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

Your co-workers in one start-up become your co-founders in another. Pick a Stage. The first company listed is an earlier stage company (either jungle or dirt road) and the second company is a later stage company (either dirt road or highway). This is easier than you would think.

Boston 52

Boston B2C Salary Cofounder 52

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

The modern form of the venture capital firm — dating to American Research and Development Corporation and JH Whitney & Co. local/state QSBS) to encourage high-risk, early-stage investing. Simply put, later-stage capital travels easier; seed-stage capital providers are homebodies. Federal government The U.S.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 6, 2011

Founder and Partner at AOL Ventures , a few weeks ago. We also tend to focus on repeat entrepreneurs but are not opposed to funding first time founders who have significant domain expertise. Later stage opportunities are also out of the mandate of our fund. Do you look at portfolio companies as future acquisition targets?

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