www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. View More in Mobile ›. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. New York ›.

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San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

– Austin Hill , co-founder Blockstream (FPV’s newest portfolio company). I founded FuturePerfect Ventures earlier this year because I believe that technology’s potential for positive social impact is still in formative stages.

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Kenya Africa United States Global 109

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

During that time, we watched the first wave of mobile apps take off — Foursquare, GroupOn, Instagram, Twitter, etc. We were roommates at the time and launched two different companies out of a kind-of dumpy apartment: We both went on to raise millions in venture capital and build meaningful businesses in interesting spaces.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Austin 48

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” So when I got into venture capital, I thought, “Well, what can I do that’s different?”

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder San Diego Startup 337

David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

Another portfolio company of ff Venture Capital that targets this market is Voxy , a mobile app that creates an immersive experience in teaching English as a second language. Endeavor recognizes that although entrepreneurial activity already exists in Miami, it remains difficult for founders to reach scale.

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Miami Private Equity Florida Technical Review 114

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Which brings me back to your mobile phones. It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

Forerunner Ventures is one of Homebrew’s favorite co-investors for consumer commerce/retail startups. Firm founder Kirsten Green has an amazing analytical mind combined with empathy for the consumer. HW: Is venture still an “apprenticeship” business? . EK: Absolutely. EK: It’s a great question.

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Naming Technical Review Early Stage Green 48

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

– Austin Hill , co-founder Blockstream (FPV’s newest portfolio company). I founded FuturePerfect Ventures earlier this year because I believe that technology’s potential for positive social impact is still in formative stages.

Kenya 40

Kenya United States Global Cofounder 40

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

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. And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. This lasted from about 2001-2004.

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San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . 3) Raise capital. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). spray-and-pray?

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2015

I remember a meeting with the Microsoft Mobile 6.0 team as they were pitching us their vision for Microsoft Mobile 6.5. A year or two later they had less than 3% market share on mobile. ” Second, I went through the scale up of the organizational VC firm in the late 1990s at Mobius Venture Capital.

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Advisory Board Venture Capital LP Seed Stage 70

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 22, 2012

Guest author Arie Abecassis is co-founder of AppStori, a crowdfunding startup for entrepreneurs of mobile apps, and a Venture Partner at DreamIt Ventures. Many ventures that work their way through accelerator programs create value in other ways. But those metrics don't tell the whole story.

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Startup Portfolio Metrics Bootstrapping 133

Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

We try hard to bring our own blank canvas into these meetings so that we can better conceive and appreciate the vision of founders we meet with. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. But it’s something we strive to do and I believe serves us well. Read More ».

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Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 124

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. One of the highlights of my trip was a startup dinner which included Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of 37signals.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Term Sheet Startup 175

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We each independently fell in love with enterprise software 20+ years ago as seed investors (cos like gotomeeting/Citrix, greenplum/EMC, livperson/IPO LPSN) and founders (workmarket, onforce/Adecco, spinback/buddymedia/salesf0rce) and are now benefiting from the ecosystems, knowledge and network that we’ve collectively developed.

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Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 60

ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

God said I need somebody to sit and patiently listen to thousands of pitches, even get up before dawn and have conference calls and sit in board meetings all day, make sure those portfolio CEOs are doing fine, eat sushi while driving a Prius. Negotiate a $20 million pre-money with a 19-year-old founder CEO. So, God made a VC!

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Liquidation Preference IRR Due Diligence LP 55

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Institute includes a co-working space and accelerator (the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas), an incubator, a training group, a seed fund, and much more — all working together under the unifying, umbrella theme of entrepreneurship. In the early days of the current internet age, the center of Dallas venture capital was the Galleria area.

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Dallas Austin Texas Cofounder 60

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

A similar pattern exists for venture capital funding: In 2020, just three regions — the Bay Area, New York, and Massachusetts — accounted for 70%+ of total venture funding in the U.S. Venture capital. Silicon Valley didn’t create venture capital, and venture capital didn’t create Silicon Valley.

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Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

the European leader in ride-sharing) and Shopmium (offering coupons via a mobile app) and as a result have contributed to creating close to 600 jobs. The first amendment relies on the definition of « founder » and imposes a minimal ownership of 10% of the company and a holding period of two to five years to benefit from a lower tax rate.

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France Europe Capital Gains Dilution 71

Cracking the Code

APRIL 27, 2018

A lot of people still see e-signature as a simple problem to solve (as easy as a tap on a mobile screen), but this is only the tip of the iceberg. With the first global enterprise-wide deployments, the team strengthened the scalability, security and certifications of the platform.

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Seattle Global Cofounder Security 48

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Why Register? Todays Paper.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Venture capital is basically the complete opposite. But that the work - in our case including mobilizing the whole firm - needs to be done every time to win the trust of the entrepreneur.” You're competing against other top tier VCs for your deal flow--as top founders look to get backed by top investors.

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Non-Compete Cofounder Cap Table Reputation 97

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. The other “first call” went to Founder Collective.

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Term Sheet Mobile Cofounder Early Stage 303

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. It’s free.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Hundreds of startups will succeed in this world over the next few years, like all the mobile app companies over the past 5 years. Alexia Tsotsis: Oh, the mobile –. Marc Andreessen: The mobile billing. Alexia Tsotsis: Let’s see, what about other companies that aren’t in your portfolio? Are there any that I have missed?

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Quite simply, the digital, mobile, and Internet revolutions are transforming the way customers access financial products and services of all types, and across all consumer and business sectors. The panelists are: Mr. Rafe Furst , Co-Founder Crowdfunder. Mr. Alo Ghosh. What does financial disintermediation really mean?

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Disintermediation Cofounder Venture Capital Angel Investor 48

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Carbonmade helps over 100,000 people create online portfolios that require zero HTML skills. Starting as a tool for one of the founders to update his portfolio, co-founders Spencer Fry, Dave Gorum, and Jason Nelson launched a self-funded, $12 per month plan in 2007, alongside their established free plan.

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Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 24, 2010

It was a great group, in a cool space, talking about building web and mobile web services. I saw Marco Arment talk about building Instapaper on the side while he was CTO of our portfolio company Tumblr. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. And I saw a bunch of demos of beta services spliced in between the talks.”

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Coder New York Venture Capital Cofounder 96