David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Over the past 15 years we’ve built this amazing membership to serve our core clients – leading investors, corporations, consulting firms, and nonprofits. For example, if you’re an early stage company dealing with complex regulation (think Uber in transportation, Oscar in healthcare, LendingClub in finance), we have people who can help.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

It takes a tremendous amount of effort to remain customer focused — something we often struggled with. The needs of the lead investor for ownership? A round that is most accommodating for the existing investors while allowing you to get new people involved? Is it driven by size of round you want to raise?

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Founder Acquisition Startup 89

Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

You should know EVERYTHING about your business, product, customers and competition. You should know every metric regarding customer acquisition, conversion and retention. This is the case for two reasons: first, because the bare fact is that investors simply do not fund ideas.

Software Review 164

Software Review Term Sheet Technical Review Angel Investor 164

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Favor investment rounds with strong leads that haven’t raised millions of dollars before you. If a company does not have a strong lead investor AND has raised a lot of money before, there is probably some baggage that you may not really be equipped to decipher. There is no sub-prime market in early-stage investing.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Favor investment rounds with strong leads that haven’t raised millions of dollars before you. If a company does not have a strong lead investor AND has raised a lot of money before, there is probably some baggage that you may not really be equipped to decipher. There is no sub-prime market in early-stage investing.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The winning moment for an entrepreneur is when an investor concludes on their own volition that an investment thesis is worthwhile, rather than having the entrepreneur tell them what to conclude. For early stage companies, it’s important to show that you’re on path, that you have prospects, and that you can get to your vision.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. While I agree that many VCs are crummy seed investors, I think there are some that are excellent seed investors.

Startup 191

Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 6, 2011

Sure – AOL Ventures is the VC arm of AOL , focused on early stage investing in consumer internet businesses. We’re not looking to be anyone’s 80% customer and we frankly pass on a lot of entrepreneurs who have unrealistic expectations about what they want out of the relationship with us (it is a marriage after all).

Early Stage 58

Early Stage LP Later Stage Balance Sheet 58

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 19, 2015

If you build a good company, investors will hunt you down. So move on, recruit awesome people, build product, make your customers happy by delivering value to them and build your company by making them pay you for it. ” That is precisely how things seems to be operating in late stage private markets.

Venture Capital 48

Venture Capital Liquidation Preference Valuation Portfolio 48