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. Alternative Capital. “

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

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. Money management is a very odd business because what we are assessed on is, to borrow a phrase, “judgment.” On Sushi and VC.

Silicon Valley 88

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans. We’re trying to limit our exposure.”

LP 286

LP Silicon Valley Venture Capital Startup 286

BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale( ).

Stealth 78

Stealth Cofounder SQL Open Source 78

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Thoughtful fund management. The result is a poorly managed organization.

Venture Capital 60

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. a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Thoughtful fund management. The result is a poorly managed organization.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Tech stack.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. For example, our limited partners have major ownership interests in such companies as Adidas , LafargeHolcim (largest building materials manufacturer in the world), and SuperNAP International (developer of data center facilities worldwide; used by Amazon, Intel and Microsoft).

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. We all can intuit the benefits to founders of these trends so there’s little reason to elaborate. How founders get screwed on convertible notes. The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth.

SEC 352

SEC Venture Capital Early Stage Cofounder 352

Haystack

JULY 3, 2019

Earlier this year, I reflected on the difference between “fund investing” vs “fund management.” ” It’s a useful post for emerging managers, I’d recommend reading it. I should be clear, not everyone who manages capital needs to build a firm in the traditional way — I do not, for instance.

Chad 106

Chad Cofounder Angel Groups Limited Partner 106

VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

For founders reading this, hope its help you better understand how investors think and address it in your pitch. For the market to develop, new talent must come in to the space, and developers, designers, product managers etc, who are looking to enter this space must go through the ‘rabbit hole’ and face the steep learning curve.

Cofounder 179

Cofounder Venture Capital Equity 179

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

2) You’re not a specialist—so a company at that stage would be hard pressed to hire you as a head of sales or marketing, for example, because there are plenty of people out there who already have that specific skill set with startup leadership experience behind it. You’ve got to bring something valuable—like talent, money, or visibility.

Startup 191

Startup Cofounder Angel Groups Limited Partner 191

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

David Teten

AUGUST 20, 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 more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Underaddressed market.

Revenue 60

Revenue SBIC Cofounder Venture Capital 60

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

First, a formal definition: According to Capital Dynamics , “Co-investments are direct investments in a company made alongside and on the same terms as a lead [General Partner]. We see our potential coinvestors in four primary buckets: 1) HOF Capital ’s own limited partners. 2) Investors with very specific value-add.

Syndicate 60

Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

David Teten

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Keynote Speakers are Andrea Bonomi (Chairman of Investindustrial), Mark Dzialga (Managing Director and Chairman of the Investment Committee at General Atlantic) & me.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Equity Leveraged Buyout South America 114

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wasnt sure what to talk about at Startup School, so I decidedto ask the founders of the startups wed funded. So I sent all the founders an email asking what surprised them aboutstarting a startup. Be Careful with Cofounders This was the surprise mentioned by the most founders. What hadnt Iwritten about yet?

Technical Cofounder 110

Technical Cofounder Startup Cofounder Founder 110

David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

I met some time ago with Brad Wisler, co-Founder of SproutBox , and shared with him our research on portfolio value creation by venture capitalists. We aim to focus our operational involvement on finding the product-market fit. Co-Founder of SproutBox. I hope this is useful. Thanks again! Brad Wisler.

Portfolio 114

Portfolio Indiana Cofounder Operations 114

David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

I met some time ago with Brad Wisler, co-Founder of SproutBox , and shared with him our research on portfolio value creation by venture capitalists. We aim to focus our operational involvement on finding the product-market fit. Co-Founder of SproutBox. I hope this is useful. Thanks again! Brad Wisler.

Portfolio 114

Portfolio Indiana Cofounder Operations 114

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas.

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This happens both to investors and entrepreneurs as well as colleagues or co-founders. . Funds may have initially launched with a view of the market that changes. One partner may have a different appetite for risk in comparison to another. There may be differing opinions about how to manage a portfolio and so forth.

Portfolio 70

Portfolio Limited Partner Early Stage Cofounder 70

David Cohen

JANUARY 28, 2015

It’s $150M of fresh capital focused on Seed and Series A and we’re now managing $265M in total. After that random day meeting, Brad became a co-founder of Techstars along with me, Jared Polis, and David Brown. Another moment was meeting Jason Mendelson , one of Brad’s partners at Foundry Group.

Boston 48

Boston Cofounder LP Partner 48

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

They’re trying to get exposure and diversification at the same time, while potentially seeing co-investment deal flow. A lot of VC fund pitches—and I know this because I used to vet VCs for a living as an institutional limited partner at a pension fund—sound the same. No current non-accredited founders, please.

Accredited Investor 106

Accredited Investor Term Sheet Deal Flow .Net 106

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It just seemed like a fitting title for a company built around narrative by a founder who used to write stories for a living. I'm joined by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, NucleasHG, the founders of Seamless, a host of extremely helpful angels, and a CircleUp syndicate led by my friend Tom Potter, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Cofounder Syndicate Syndication 60