Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. When the show has been processed it will be available here (estimated 8pm PDT).

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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. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Make sure these people understand the nature of early-stage angel investing. I think it stands for those people who have money but not the sophistication to understand the world of early-stage tech funding. All deals – especially (but not only) those that got venture funded. Lists are available everywhere.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

How do you decide which investor you should target and raise capital from? . I wrote recently about Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? That said, venture capital is just one of many options to finance your business, and it’s typically the most expensive.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 2, 2020

Anecdotally I’ve heard that early stage valuations are already down 30-50%. It’s early and not clear where this will end up, but I’ll keep my eye on it and will report here what we’re seeing. Funds will smaller portfolios are more likely to be looking at new deals.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 29, 2011

At the same time, I had lunch with someone yesterday who regularly ran into early stage entrepreneurs who was surprised to hear that I didn't mind if they made intros to me. Made sense--and made me think I need to spend more time trying to get great intros from the people I know and trust.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Quarterly reports about venture capital investment are fairly commonplace. But information about early stage investment can be more difficult to come by. and Canada, providing data that entrepreneurs and early-stage investors have long sought after.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. We had to buy expensive Sun servers, Oracle databases, Unix licenses and build complex software.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Tapulous had raised $1.8mm. TechCrunch. TechCrunch.

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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

I know this because, as an early-stage investor, I subconsciously began to think about making investments partly based on answering this question in my head: “ Will this get to a venture scale Series A? Lots of VC firms will cross-check various databases Crunchbase, Pitchbook, and Mattermark, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” ” “Okay, well you can be an operating partner or a venture partner.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge.

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A Crowded Space

MAY 18, 2017

I recently appeared on TwentyMinute VC podcast and declared that highly concentrated portfolios are the best way to invest as a venture capitalist. This started a debate between concentrated and diverse portfolios in venture capital. My issue is with the inputs and underlying assumptions in the model.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. We have a myriad of connections to local Venture Capital firms, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and many other important individuals. . Who We Are: We’re two individuals with a strong background in strategic consulting and management.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The following organizations and databases can help: [link] [link] [link] 2. If not, one of the expressions in the equation could be holding you back from unicorn status, and therefore venture capital funding. Author: Amanda Eakin, Associate at Sputnik ATX Venture Accelerator. Edited by: Ingrid Garcia and Emily Jones.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 30, 2016

So they hire a bunch of recent college grads, stick them in a room, and tell them to collect information on early stage companies in different sectors, and populate their databases with this information. This happens because several VC firms believe that they need “market intelligence” on sectors.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year! [Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 8, 2017

However, venture capital is a dynamic business and good focus areas don’t last forever. Suitable for early stage investment. conversational interfaces to FAQ databases can improve customer service). We can articulate a few underlying investment theses. We can articulate use cases.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

After mulling over seemingly endless spreadsheets of data and complex formulas for either our financial projections or our databases, Brickbreaker represents the perfect mind numbing entertainment pause I require to keep from going insane. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Venture News. Matthew Olivieri.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Venture Capital.

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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. WordStream solutions both create, generate, manage and analyze the performance of large keyword databases.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In old-school resume databases, most talented professionals didn’t want or need to participate. 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. The usual tempo for raising money from venture capital is at a minimum of a year between financings.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They have a cute little app that takes a picture of a business card, populates your contact database and data is confirmed through crowd sourced labor. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Congratulations on the Best Venture Capital Investment. Venture News. ► July. (1). ► May. (1).

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

To put things in context, global venture funding in Q2 2023 reached $65 billion, an 18% decline quarter over quarter, and a 49% drop compared to the second quarter of 2022, when startup investors spent $127 billion, according to Crunchbase. I tried to consolidate my thoughts as well as other perspectives from leading venture capital funds.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Build and maintain large email database. Having flexible, searchable databases accessible on mobile devices Move from partner- or people-oriented function to more institutionalized, systematic, and scalable. Question : How many PE firms are in your databases? Phone is slower and less scalable, but good quality and intimacy.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. So the shift from buying a lot of servers and databases and software licenses and networking equipment, the shift instead to just renting it all.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

According to Israel Venture Capital (IVC), Ra’anana-based Advasense raised $31 million in 2005-07 from Giza Venture Capital , BlueRun Ventures. million Series B funding round led by Rhodium , with participation by Gandyr , 2BAngels and existing investor Magma Venture Capital ?

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Austin Startup

JULY 24, 2017

Link: Austin Early-Stage Investors Spreadsheet My overall goal in creating this spreadsheet was to build a living resource for founders who aren’t sure how to approach fundraising. This is not how you grow plants by the way. Full credit to them for, you know, spending the time to collect information on several thousand investors.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

125 theses so far submitted by investors into the OpenVC database. Our four primary learnings: Public theses are often inconsistent with how firms actually deploy capital. A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: .

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

So how do Israeli ventures scale up? To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. These are also questions that will concern late-stage investors who provide the companies the opportunities to scale and, eventually, go public.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An The next round of funding is the one in which you might deal with actual venture capital firms. undergrad could build something better as a class project.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Johnny Good post.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. SCVNGR Uses Googles Places Database. View More » Apple iOS 4.2

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2013

But what if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently? At the same time, Venture Capital, which had viewed therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices as hot places to invest, is fleeing the field. Venture Capital Issues.

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