David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

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

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. This evolves the VC from a server to a router.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot. Within a few weeks, the Great Lakes Brewing team transitioned their operations to meet the needs of their community by offering free delivery on orders over $50. We’re seeing about a 70 to 75 conversion rate from appointments in terms of purchase ,” said Joanna Griffiths , Founder and CEO.

eCommerce 155

eCommerce Cofounder Community Channel 155

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. Mentorship. Experience.

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Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co. and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. David Teten, HBS 98, Partner, ff Venture Capital, will discuss his research study on VC portfolio operations, recently featured in Forbes ).

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Tunisia Libya Algeria Mauritania 114

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll likely organize a Harvard Business School Angels of NY event on this topic in 2012. - Studying best practices of VCs in supporting portfolio company operational improvement. I am now leading a Columbia MBA team (ex-Mckinsey and BCG) on a study regarding best practices of VCs in supporting portfolio company operational improvement.

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Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business.

Software Developers 60

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. 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. Bigfoot Capital.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

They share strategies and techniques of how they implement Profit First, which has become a great tool to keep minority partners actively involved/supportive of the business. As founder and CTO of several businesses, I love to see ideas become reality and build sustainable businesses that create real value. Corporate Partners.

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Fractional CTO New Jersey New York City United States 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. DEAL OF THE WEEK. Rumored to be appox.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We are pleased to announce that Leah Fessler has joined the investment team at NextView based in our New York office. . For those of you who don’t know Leah, her career has spanned across journalism, operating at early-stage startups, venture investing, and hedge fund management.

New York 180

New York Early Stage Cofounder Operations 180

Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

“I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. The company operates on six continents and boasts more than 250,000 graduates worldwide. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So Feed a need. Beth’s advice.

Detroit 156

Detroit Technical Review Cofounder North America 156

ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2022

“Adding NatureBox to the HUNGRY platform enables us to provide our clients with exclusive access to NatureBox-branded snacks,” said HUNGRY co-founder and CEO Jeff Grass. and has rapidly growing operations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, New York City, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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Los Angeles Employee San Francisco New York City 152

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. 3) Facebook.

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Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

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Boston Cofounder B2C PR 120

View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

As an adult, I know the world operates on story first and logic second. Tiny Speck decided to sunset Glitch and began winding down its operations. I find it intriguing that species not only evolve against their environment, but their environment co-evolves simultaneously against them. A nice account of Stuart’s story is here.

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Founder Technical Review Cofounder Non-Compete 120

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Now nearly a “double unicorn,” the company plans to use the new investment to further grow its business operations and expand its current suite of mobile applications. The new Series D round includes $100 million in primary and $30 million in secondary funding, elevating Lightricks’s total funding to $335 million.

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Private Equity Developer Venture Capital Merger 144

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. was having coffee with a friend who teaches at the U.C.

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. It was originally called Romotive, and I still remember founder Keller Rinaudo just crushing it at demo day that year. These are sorted by the year that we funded them.

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San Antonio New York City Seattle Los Angeles 171

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

We’ve collated a number of different stories to show you how you can go about getting funding to grow your business or to launch a new venture. Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. How a law firm got funded thanks to partners that wouldn’t give up.

Cofounder 137

Cofounder Green Small Business Administration Business Plan 137

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

I lived in Düsseldorf for some time, and there I came up with the company name idea: “one (idea) for one (client)”, “each custom product for each client”, and “one and only solution for each business partner. We picked up this name because I, as the founder, consider myself a nerd. That’s why ein (one in German) is present in the name.

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Naming SEO Entrepreneur CPA 95

David Teten

JUNE 12, 2011

HBS Angels of New York is holding its first full investor meeting Monday night, June 13. For more information on HBS Angels of New York and how to join, visit hbscny.org/angels. Co-Founders Jeff Fernandez, Surag Mungekar, and Nick Narodny are CEO, CTO, and Chief Content Officer, respectively.

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Technical Review Private Equity Fractional CTO Cofounder 84

View from Seed

OCTOBER 10, 2017

We are very excited today to announce that Melody Koh is joining NextView as a Venture Partner based in our New York office. She had previously held roles at Fab.com as well as being the founder and CEO of a seed-funded company in the food and beverage space.

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New York Cofounder IPO Early Stage 120

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition. I don’t know this world on an intimate, personal level. I have no idea exactly what it takes to get inside that inner circle.

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban. New York City.

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SEC Accredited Investor San Diego New York City 61

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

At Coremetrics, I had to use mainframes and dumb terminals, clients and servers, the credit card industry, and any other analogy we could think of when explaining our idea to prospective investors, customers, and partners. Brant Barton, my co-founder, and I had left Coremetrics to start it together. Application Service Provider.

Software Review 48

Software Review Cofounder eCommerce Austin 48

ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2018

Eighteen months later, I’m keynoting at conferences and serving clients in London, Sydney, Singapore, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Vancouver, and 50 other cities,” says Logan Young, the co-founder of BlitzMetrics, a Facebook dashboard and advertising company. Learn, Do, Teach: Build Your Expertise First.

Technical Review 115

Technical Review Technology Louisville Los Angeles 115

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. Check out his website if you live in or are visiting New York! Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. And there you have it. Not a chance.

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286