David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market .

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 31, 2024

— Boris Wertz (@bwertz) January 11, 2024 While I was aware of many emerging GPs raising right now, I didn’t realize just how many were in the market. The first is the fund that you would ideally raise if LP capital was not a constraining factor. Or an LP wants to anchor the fund, but asks for a large piece of the carry.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In 2019 market conditions often are such that founders retain control of the board through the A-round, usually in a 2–1 (common to investor) ratio but sometimes it’s 3–2 (common to investor). If the CEO is popular in the community no VC wants to face the backlash in the community for firing a CEO unless it really is seen as the last resort.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Growth will slow, partly due to internal limits and partly because the company is starting to bump up against the limits of the markets it serves.” He talks about making things that people want & going after a big enough market. Tim Barker is the CPO of DataSift (and heading European marketing for Salesforce.com).

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. GCVF specializes in providing critical support to founders based in small communities, while connecting them to an unfair network well-beyond their small-town headquarters. . (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2020

by Dr. Jim White , founder and president of JL White International and bestselling author of “ Opportunity Investing: How To Revitalize Urban And Rural Communities With Opportunity Funds “ COVID-19 has disrupted the business world, and the “normal” of a few months ago may never return. and Growers Ice Company, Inc.,

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

– SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks. Clients typically use it to create and strengthen local community initiatives: bake sales, barbeques, political organizing, etc. .

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I took my last LP meeting the first week of March and clearly, I didn’t close anyone that I had met with at that time. I could never have imagined going from a 25-year-old analyst at an institutional investor to seeing what I’ve seen and being a part of this community. It was the first anyone had asked me about it. He seemed paranoid.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

Last week we held our first annual LP meeting, when venture funds get their investors together with updates on operations and results. There are several Homebrew investments going to market for their Series A this year. In bull markets we’re told to expect a seed failure rate of ~40% and closer to 50% in typical markets.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

The modal VC thesis is: “We invest in great teams addressing large markets with disruptive solutions” Who invests in lousy teams addressing tiny markets with outdated solutions? J-Angels “is a community and a VC fund of top American investors (Jewish-American & Israeli-born) in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.”.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2015

Last week Homebrew held its second annual LP meeting, coinciding with our second anniversary as a fund. They all became quite familiar with Homebrew during their diligence process but post-close is when we actually start to work together and bring them into our community.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

We offer investors venture economics with public market liquidity. As entrepreneurs, Tushar and I immediately knew that when product-market fit hits you in the head, you jump on it. Fund Details We identify the most promising use cases for cryptoassets and within those use cases we vet the teams, projects, and communities.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common ways in which the Fortune 500 are working with the startup community at scale is through corporate VC arms, contests, packages of benefits geared to startups, and accelerator programs. I worked with our intern team to look for the Fortune 500 companies making the strongest effort to reach out to the tech startup community.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Lower level of community familiarity. (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Of the Inc.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

This will continue while we’re in a tech bull market and I predict will wane when we’re not. I believe some VCs have entered the early-stage market as simply an option on future financing rounds. In a bull market many players see drift in their activities. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. 1) Market fund. Why is it now more feasible to use technology in the VC investing process?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I just returned from 3 days in Cincinnati including attending the annual meeting of one of Upfront’s LPs – Cintrifuse. I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Flow is a function of reputation and share of mind in target market. Signature and messaging will vary by market and audience, but must be internally consistent. Benchmark yourself to overall market activity. Intermediaries.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Startups are lucky that they can’t afford research, so they test in market and land upon on ideas that would never fly based on what we think or what focus groups would respond with. Given technology is becoming the major form of market access – it should now be viewed in the same realm as access to medicine and education.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

Build a long-term LP based, anchored by diverse asset types (Universities, Endowments, Family Offices, Pensions, Insurance Companies, Sovereign Wealth Funds & Fund of Funds). But his challenges only make us a better place, he’s pushed us to make sure we’re building systems to better track our markets and measure performance.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is above and beyond whatever events and educational opportunities the fund provides for its community, which could also be very useful. However, the private markets are very different—with the returns being much more positively skewed towards a smaller number of bigger winners. Access to other investors.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It’s an exciting time to be launching a new fund as our focus on network effects and broad geography are driving opportunities in both existing and emerging markets. As competitive as venture capital often seems, we are incredibly humbled by the amount of support and love we have gotten over the years from our community.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Last Friday, June 21st I sent the following message out to our community of users, colleagues, friends and supporters. While the journey of JuiceBox Hero is coming to a close, we know that our small but mighty team’s commitment to innovation for women, families, and under-represented markets is far from over. in a huge $77b market.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

10/ Community is a moat. Yes, but it turns out physical spaces lost out this year and virtual spaces and communities won the day (year?). With the advent of programs like CartaX and what I call streaming venture funds , the liquidity in private markets is going to get the foundation to grow significantly in 2021. No, but close.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The great thing, if you can find them, is that the excitement around early stage investments in New York City is carrying over to a lot of investor interest--and the story of being actively involved as a hands-on investor is one that the market appreciates. Another GA community member introduced me to the team at KEC holdings.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

Every year the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst puts together a show where fund managers can listen to what the LP community is interested in and where they plan on allocating their dollars. In the early morning, a show of hands revealed about a 20% LP audience and 80% fund manager group.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

The company's market cap at the time of their entry into the public markets topped $100 billion dollars. Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? You just keep doing that until you find product market fit. ER : And the rest, as they say, is history.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

On paper, only one is in positive return territory as a fund, but the SBIC leverage is a substantial negative factor for the LP investors in that particular fund. As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 28, 2017

For VCs, annual LP meetings are combination Board Meeting + Community Event. We spent an afternoon with our investors, providing updates on fund performance, market dynamics and future plans. Several founders gave 10-12 minute updates on their companies, and then, a dinner with our LPs, Homebrew founders and fund advisors.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Relationship Cost of SPVs/Direct Co-Investment and LP Credibility. Especially during the past decade bull run, when everything was up and to the right, venture investors loved to increase their exposure to companies by syndicating SPVs (or direct investment opportunities) to their LPs, friends and other industry luminaries.

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conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Step Zero – Really Understand Your Target Market. Do This: Really get to know your market. These questions help you uncover trends within your market and tell you things analytics alone can not. Recommended Reading: How to Find Your Target Market So Your Content Sticks . Step 1 – Set Up Actionable Analytics.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

GPs strategically invite trusted [Limited Partners and others] to co-invest, often based on the LP’s ability to add value or when the amount of capital required to complete an attractive transaction is larger than they are able to invest alone.”. Market Insight. Fundraising is burdensome. Alpha pursues a similar model.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

So a sincere hope of mine in building Frank isn’t that we’re right, it’s that we can be part of growing an ecosystem or community of folks building tools specifically for worker power (LaborTech). It looked more like a market map than a competitive landscape slide. HW: Frank is venture backed. It was our flywheel.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

I thought it would be helpful to put together some notes on market norms and issues to consider in negotiating a partnership at an institutional investment firm. So I would start by sharing with the fund an institutional LP due diligence checklist , and ask them to share their data room with you.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 9, 2012

It’s basically all in the marketing. It’s been a pretty popular move for New York area politicians to jump on the bandwagon of the emergence of New York tech growth—a phenomenon they largely had nothing to do with—and say they’re supportive of the community. Let’s take a step back from a moment.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We call these investors “LPs” for limited partners. I had lunch with an LP. I like to meet people like this because in an hour I get catch up on everything going on in the startup community. Marketing. Marketing = deal flow = share of mind = start of future relationships. They become my eyes and ears.

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