SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

I actually think you can push the conversation pretty far with most investors and a few good mockups. Investors demand more than that. A Beginner's Guide to Investors How to Speak the Language of Venture Capital " The "this product" will be a well formulated mock-up or clickable prototype.

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VC Adventure

JULY 1, 2021

Based on our research and the conversations we had in the course of writing our book , we believe there are countless potential Denarises out there. According to Kauffman Foundation research , beyond the 1% of startups receiving venture capital financing, only about 17% take any outside financing at all.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

The downside is that with so much venture and angel capital available, investors have been willing to fund the 10 th Groupon clone. For the last few years, there really hasn’t been a demand to innovate on top of the ecosystem that’s been built. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. As I like to tell people who ask about Bird, “consumers have literally voted with their feet.” Is Bird really defensible?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

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. Cryptoassets have fixed supplies; therefore increases in demand drive up prices. But we never lost the finance bug.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) And so is venture capital. You don’t really have much to go on to decide who would make a good fit. Of partner?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

The downside is that with so much venture and angel capital available, investors have been willing to fund the 10 th Groupon clone. For the last few years, there really hasn’t been a demand to innovate on top of the ecosystem that’s been built. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. These are many of the steps I went through when I joined HOF Capital. The post How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm appeared first on David Teten.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Once you’ve been around for a few years, attracted some great people, landed real, paying customers and raised venture capital you’ve likely got a talented team around you. I opened up with a very blunt conversation about self confidence, self doubt, family pressure, peer pressure and the demands on a CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Venture capital isn’t right for many business but if you do want to raise from a VC at some point you need to understand that often investors care more about growth than profits. They raised $5 million in venture capital to fund growth. Are you looking to potentially sell the company in the next year or two?

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

The problem is made worse by the fact that LP demand to invest in the handful of serially successful VCs well outstrips supply and most LPs have to invest most or all of their venture allocation in other VC funds. Conversely, several VCs are much worse.” Venture Capital'

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

The two most obvious are: Why did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? How did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. So GLG started connecting our clients directly to the smartest people on any given topic. It started in healthcare.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On the heels of the announcement we made last month about our Series B financing , we are now announcing the launch of a new program called Bolster Prime and a new venture capital fund called Bolster Ventures. Brad’s visceral response in this conversation was a very clear, “you should hire Jenny.”

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Sean Seton-Rogers of PROfounders Capital recently claimed that of the more than 3,500 business plans they had received, his London, U.K. based venture capital fund had just invested in 17 companies. The signs to me are all too obvious from our conversations.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

ABM/Demand Gen), Richard Crowley (Slack, Ops Architect), Misha Brukman (JanusGraph, co-founder). Balanced growth vs. growth at all costs: No conversation about 2019 will be complete without considering the uncertain economic, financial and geopolitical environment in which we are currently living.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. I said both in the article but felt compelled to provide a statement up front for the skimmers. I thought I’d post on one of the topics before hand.

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Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

At the maturity date, there is a risk that investors may demand repayment. ” The theory is that the number of seed stage Series A deals led by venture capital firms is decreasing, meaning that it will be difficult for startups to raise a new round of financing. .” Convertible debt may need to be repaid.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The VP of Sales comes to a board meeting, still optimistic, and provides a set of reasonable explanations – “our pipeline looks great, but orders will close next quarter” or “we’ve got lots of traffic to our site, we just need to work on conversion.” Just had a conversation today with a student taking Steve’s class.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2018

If an investor is hierarchical and doesn’t see diversity as a competitive tool, look for capital somewhere else. Imagine having the tough conversation when things go wrong. Conversely, if your startup only needs $150,000 to validate the market and prove the concept, don’t accept millions because some VC offers it.

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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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. Your design or ad agencies can impress you with their awards, but if you’re not moving product or creating demand, you’ve missed the point.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. There is demand to apply the problem-solving methodology to a range of public sector organizations where success is measured by impact and mission achievement versus revenue and profit. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

You can imagine the rest of the conversation; my sounding reluctant to let our own tests outside our building, the magazines begging us to let them have them, and finally a deal gets struck where we let the benchmarks out to the test labs of these magazines under their own name “The Potrero Benchmark Suite” without attribution to us.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Scooter-sharing has presented itself as a worthy category to invest in and the attention it has garnered from leading venture capital firms like Sequoia Capital, show that the new frontier in transportation startups might have nothing to do with cars at all. Focusing on a Great Product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

As Hisham explained, the demand for this addition was obvious “in our debriefing and analysis both from the qualitative conversations and interviews that we did, as well as from the MVP. The discovery process brought us two major insights: 1. From all of this work, the conference’s new Core Concepts track was born.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We recently had a conversation with him to get his tips on managing hybrid office setups and learn how his company’s foresight and proactive approach helped it thrive as the COVID pandemic wore on. Over time, poorer productivity and exhaustion can result from these extended workdays and demands for nearly continuous contact.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

A waiter requests money from you at the end of a meal, a doctor looks into your open mouth, and demanding strangers get into your car if it's yellow and has a number on the roof. One relationship that isn't so commonplace is having a venture capital investor--especially for the first time.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

Magazine calls it a “hybrid venture capital fund and business school”. Watsi - the first non-profit to receive venture backing from Y Combinator. You have demand. Run an Adwords campaign targeting keywords that are relevant to your idea – make sure to set up conversion tracking or the whole exercise is pointless.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Here’s what I suggested they do: Mei and Bill are building a better version of an on-demand help service like TaskRabbit. Even more interesting, their product might have a much higher initial order size and much greater lifetime value than existing on-demand help services. And “better” didn’t do it justice. So what was the problem?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Mature startups with proven business models and the potential to reach the public markets within a few years will be the safest place to park any new venture capital that comes into the ecosystem. Two weeks ago in San Francisco, a conversation with tech lawyers from the US and Europe was a confirmation of what I read in the news.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

She has spent twelve years in startups and built three successful companies without venture capital backing. The rise of the on-demand webinar has happened over the last ten years. We turn any video into an interactive webinar that you could set on a recurring schedule or join on demand. This is John Jantsch.

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Austin Startup

MAY 15, 2020

This reflects the need to pump additional capital into our most promising alumni who need growth capital due to epic demand, and the expectation that many angel investors are limiting new investment. First, we’ve increased our option to invest up to $500k in your company from $350k where it was earlier.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This is going to show you the dependency on several critical variables: Cost per lead Conversion rates at each stage of your sales process Level of touch required Then compare this to your expected monetization. Banks and wireless phone companies ignore this rule, but they have access to tons of capital.)

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Austin Startup

MARCH 8, 2021

Learn more about our 15 female led investments at [link] On International Women’s Day: A Peak Inside 5 Female-Led, Early-Stage Startups was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The CIA set up In-Q-Tel to be the venture capital arm of the intelligence community to speed the insertion of technologies. There is demand to apply the problem-solving methodology to a range of public sector organizations where success is measured by impact and mission achievement versus revenue and profit. Lessons Learned.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Community 120

Austin Startup

APRIL 14, 2017

We share stories, anecdotes, rants and observations about the club and bar scene and engage into a conversation regarding nightlife-related topics and issues. He also launched Cofound Ventures, Harlem’s first venture capital fund. Feedbak Host: Bak Zoumanigui On The FeedBak Podcast, we talk about the nightlife experience.

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