Community Design New York City Portfolio 
David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
An incredibly talented interaction designer who lacks presentation skills might not be the right fit if she’ll be expected to also pitch ideas to clients. Austin has a relatively small tech community, so reputation is a stronger factor there than it would be in a huge market like New York City.
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David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
– Encourage founders to turn to other founders and their broader community as resources, not just the VC’s own staff. First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource. – Provide hands-on operational support for portfolio companies.
David Teten
DECEMBER 12, 2017
These take considerable time to design, build and populate, and require regular use and “feeding of the beast”, as we call it. 645 Ventures , a New York City based VC firm, is one of the pioneers of a data-driven investment model to the seed stage. I’d expect a similar shift in venture over the next decade or two.”.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. Third most powerful economic city in the world after NYC & Tokyo.
David Teten
JULY 12, 2013
We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. These conferences are not only a great way to raise your startup’s profile, they also serve as valuable networking opportunities within the tech/VC community.
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. Tyler Tringas, General Partner, observes, “Almost all of these new [RBI] forms of financing really only work for more mature companies (say $25-50k MRR and up) and there are still very few new options at the stage where we are investing.” ARR of $500K+.
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