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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. Investors: Google Ventures. In the program we also talked about much debated topic of large VC’s and whether they should have seed programs. If you’re interested in the topic you should check out the program. Wildfire Interactive.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.

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Welcoming the Newest Partner to Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

Today is amongst the proudest days I’ve had at Upfront Ventures — getting the chance to announce that Kevin Zhang has been promoted to Partner. years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital. I mentioned at the start that Kevin has taught me something about Venture Capital.

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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

The cloud platform could replace the existing relational database and office productivity applications that were serving as a piecemeal solution. For the past four years Ryan has been a senior associate with late-stage venture capital firm Next Level Ventures.

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Bridging the gap between tech startups and the Fortune 500

David Teten

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. 1) Corporate Venture Capital. 4) Accelerators. SAP also has a dedicated fund for startups using HANA.

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Outbound VC Dialing Programs – Total Disrespect for Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

Many of the growth equity firms have had outbound dialing programs for years. Perhaps outbound dialing / emailing programs worked well for growth equity firms in their core business. What disrespect they show founders / CEOs with these programs. These kind of companies were seldom startups. What a waste of my time.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

We maintain a database of these corporations’ priority needs — allowing us to identify early clients for companies we back. Similarly, we have an ongoing program to introduce our companies to later-round VCs, and have more credibility in presenting our companies to other investors than an independent investment banker would have.