David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. I said we had a lot of deal flow. 2) Market . Her answer? ‘I

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In that capacity, I co-founded the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Venture Capital Access Program, a joint venture with the National Association of Investment Companies (“NAIC”), which helps women and diverse entrepreneurs raise capital. The results were more diverse inbound deal flow, and which we assessed using a neutral filter.

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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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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, announced the 10 startups selected for the 2020 class of Techstars Austin. ABOUT TECHSTARS: The Techstars Worldwide Network helps entrepreneurs succeed. Investors connect with Techstars to gain access to quality deal flow. billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

Sure, there is always some seed funding (10% of overall deal flow), but you can bet that this money goes to entrepreneurs who have been there before and won. Get introduced via one of the social networks, or a professional organization, before you approach a VC with a business proposal.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “ Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”. 4) Manage deal flow.

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View from Seed

MAY 12, 2015

For entrepreneurs setting out to raise a round of VC financing, with some diligent research, it’s reasonably straightforward to put together a list of target firms to pitch. Through some informal queries of fellow entrepreneurs, you can learn some additional data points on a VC’s reputation. Don’t overthink it.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

Startup deal flow is the most important thing in an institutional investor’s life. Startup deal flow is the least important thing in a non-institutional (angel) investor’s life. If they go dark it means they are not going to invest. Just move on. Remember that. I write for fun about topics I find interesting.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Rather than going through their networks or targeting specific sectors for deal flow, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. might very well be a good way to find some promising first time entrepreneurs. Was amused to read about Right Side Capital this week.

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