Version One Ventures

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you start a new fund, you need to be clearly differentiated: what’s your unique insight into a specific opportunity, your unique network that generates deal flow, your unique value proposition that gets you into deals? Too many funds are still pitching themes that aren’t fresh (e.g.

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LP Differentiation Deal Flow India 73

Steve Blank

AUGUST 12, 2013

. —— Jason, an entrepreneur I’ve known for over a decade, came out to the ranch today. Since he wasn’t from Silicon Valley, he decided to use his time up here networking with other meetings with VC’s and company executives. I’m not an investor, and I’m really not looking for meetings with entrepreneurs for deal flow.

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Silicon Valley Deal Flow Customer Development Stock 335

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. New England Investment Network. angels entrepreneur funding groups startup' Keiretsu Forum. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. USA Angel Investment Network. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. New England Investment Network. With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard.

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Angel Investor North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor 270

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 16, 2011

It should stick in your head as a metaphor for networking. It’s the entrepreneur’s equivalent of “ 10,000 hours.&#. If you wait until you need to fill somebody in a roll you’re losing valuable time as an entrepreneur. You send them update emails. Increase your deal flow. Are You a VC?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ). Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 4) Manage deal flow.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. There’s lots of lore, emotion, and misconceptions of what VC’s do or don’t do for entrepreneurs. What this meant for entrepreneurs and VC’s was simple– the gold rush to liquidity was on. What Do VC’s Do?

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Blasting the same quick email to a dozen investors will never work in your favor. The best introductions come from people who have brought good deal flows to investors in the past. Savvy entrepreneurs put in the time doing their due diligence on potential connections and then ask the strongest connector for the introduction.

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Due Diligence Venture Capital Deal Flow Social Media 161

Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

« Compensation for Entrepreneurs | Main.   Tomorrow, you're going to close your first professional investment with "Fred," a wealthy individual you met at a networking event.    Deals that were put together so poorly that the entrepreneur had little room to work. 

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Wisconsin Offshore Warrant Angel Investor 60

ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

On July 1, 2006, commenting on the Indian startup scenario, I had written a blog post called Too Much Money, Too Few Deals. Today, the Indian scenario has improved greatly, but still the issue of lack of a mature deal flow remains. An ad-supported network, the company has achieved over $1 million in revenue and is profitable.

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Incubator Silicon Valley Malaysia Entrepreneur 128

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

In exchange, these VCs/companies get early looks at new deal flow and offer aspiring entrepreneurs feedback and advice on their business plan. Win, lose or draw, these students have a life changing experience where they can network and get smarter as they see what good startup thinking looks like.

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Business Plan Silicon Valley RSS Venture Capital 140

David Teten

DECEMBER 1, 2020

As an example of cross-alumni SIG cooperation: HBS Alumni Angels of NY organizes periodic pitch nights geared to women, African-American, Latino, Arab, and LBGT entrepreneurs, joint with all the relevant HBS and Harvard affinity groups. This helps create diversified deal flow and closed investments.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Database Florida America 60

Genuine VC

JULY 6, 2011

A lot has been written for entrepreneurs about optimizing a venture capital fundraising process, but one aspect which isn’t discussed very often is the pacing of it. Two (seemingly contradictory) maxims that are often repeated in this context are: “it goes slow until it goes fast” and “time kills all deals.”

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Term Sheet Deal Flow Venture Capital Conversion 150

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Sure it still takes time to build trust, but if you think back to the limitations of 5, 10 or 20 years ago, it’s clear email/LinkedIn/Twitter are far more open platforms than, say, a Rolodex. One path would be to crawl this network and ask them for introductions to other tech Bold Faced Names.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live … the show were Jason speaks with entrepreneurs looking to improve their businesses. We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. Meetings are definitely one of those places, but email is another primary way that that comes in. That’s a challenge.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2016

We had several high level goals: Understand how AngelList and Syndicates worked by actively participating; Be able to experiment with seed investments outside of our themes; Extend our network of entrepreneurs and angel investors; and. Most active syndicate member investment total: $905k across 41 of our 42 FG Angels deals. %

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Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor Portfolio 70

K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

They wake up earlier than a lot of entrepreneurs do, and, I get a lot of late night emails from VCs working through their email inboxes late at night. the flow of information and connections happens quickly and efficiently. The combination of your existing network plus your Valley network can prove to be even more potent.

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Silicon Valley San Jose Portfolio Cofounder 124

Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

Every email, phone call, meeting, and text message was noted. Free CRM for Small Businesses - HubSpot I wrote a lot of emails. Every single prospecting email was hand written for that specific investor. I used Rocket Reach to get the email addresses for those contacts. Facts I tracked my raise using HubSpot’s free CRM.

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Austin Institutional Investors Angel Groups Deal Flow 54

K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

They wake up earlier than a lot of entrepreneurs do, and, I get a lot of late night emails from VCs working through their email inboxes late at night. the flow of information and connections happens quickly and efficiently. The combination of your existing network plus your Valley network can prove to be even more potent.

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Silicon Valley San Jose Portfolio Cofounder 112

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Despite the seemingly not so humble tagline (“VC Done Right”), I found him to be a ‘grow the pie’ guy who excitedly looks for opportunities to help entrepreneurs and collaborate at the seed stage. They ignored my emails, so I found out the CEO was leaving town to attend some fashion conference in Brazil.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 21, 2006

One of the speakers this afternoon, talking about helping entrepreneurs get ready to present to investors, said something like this: "Instead of letting people who I dont think are investable spend a lot of time on presentations to investors, I just tell them they either arent investable or shouldnt be in business." And so forth.

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Wisconsin Warrant Angel Investor Deal Flow 60

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I know there are at least a few of you as I received several emails this week along the lines of "no new posts since November???" Rather than going through their networks or targeting specific sectors for deal flow, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. Well, Im back.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Venture Capital Angel Investor 28

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 23, 2019

They really have a hard time at a conference or a trade show or a networking event just walking up to someone, sticking their hand out, and saying “Hi, I’m Tom Martin,” and starting a conversation. I want to create deal flow for years, not just today because man, that’s really hard. Go for four.

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Sales Conversion Social Media Networking 58