thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

The stories outlined by a number of brave women in the NY Times last week recount investors using their power and position to proposition female founders. Just a week before, Justin Caldbeck, founder of Binary Capital , admitted to sexually harassing a number of women who were seeking investment from his fund.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

That means they spend a lot less time actively seeking out new deals than they do responding to inbound deal flow. VCs therefore use whatever heuristics they can in order to triage the deal flow. One of the primary ones is the referral source. If they’re legitimate, they will.

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David Cohen

JUNE 18, 2022

That’s why, this Juneteenth, I’ve invited Makisha Boothe, Founder and Head Business Coach of Sistahbiz Global Network , a business accelerator for Black women entrepreneurs, to write this guest post which I invite you to help amplify. This is our country’s core work for some time to come if we are serious about freedom for all.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The Assistant Director will manage the deal flow process and lead our due diligence efforts to admit new members. The Assistant Director will also work directly with the startups that are supported by these programs and support UT-related startups that are part of the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy or Bioscience incubators.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

In 2018 and 2019, we connected together all four cities with staff, programming and a Texas-wide mentor network. that’s a full third of our deal flow in our first full year of operation. The money is flowing in Dallas too?—?our Texas entrepreneurs shouldn’t need to fly to the coasts to raise funding or meet customers.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

With SXSW starting later that week, the companies will be fresh out of the Techstars Austin program, ready to leverage the SXSW event as well. For more information about the Techstars Austin accelerator program, see here. “I This is a very strong group of founders building some of the worlds next amazing companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

I first met Daniela Perdomo , goTenna’s founder, at SXSW. Not only that—these people are doing all sorts of different kinds of deals—and you don’t do deals without deal flow. By being full time in the community—they can make connections to help market various programs and opportunities.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

I suggested that Andrew tap into some family offices and corporate CSR programs to inject some liquidity to the exchange, otherwise entrepreneurs would not engage. Andrew also asked how he could partner with the 1M/1M program. Well, we have a well-developed affiliate program , and I encouraged him to join. Quipu Applications.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

At the event, there will be an interactive panel moderated by Trevor Boehm, Techstars Program Director and lead writer of “Get Backed,” a best-selling book on fundraising. I’ve spent my entire career helping to build early stage companies and I feel very fortunate to share my experience with founders everywhere.”

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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. This way we can stay in touch and it will help you to decide if 1M/1M is a program for you.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

You can see a list of the 70+ investors and other partners who have signed on to participate in local programming at the bottom. You should come along for the ride if you are interested in investing more in Texas technology and disruptive commerce companies and want to develop relationships with local investors who can be your deal flow.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 28, 2011

This becomes more important as deal-flow gets more and more competitive and investors try to proactively discover these startups. Earlier this month, TechCrunch covered a new program by Google Ventures to basically turn all 25,000 Google employees into scouts for deal-flow. It starts at 29:11. What do you think?

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” Surprisingly, this isn’t just an LP kind of question, I actually get this a lot from founders or even just friends who are not directly involved in the startup community. The stock answer from most investors is that they get most of their deal flow from referrals.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Who is actually building a portfolio whose founders reflect the diversity of the greater population? I went back and calculated the number of companies in the first Brooklyn Bridge Ventures portfolio who have at least one founder who is female, from an underrepresented minority group, or LGBT. Not directly, anyway. And does it work?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Andrew Wong, CEO of MAD, has been working with us for almost a year, and we have made a mutual choice to deepen the partnership by making MAD a premiere value-added reseller partner of the 1M/1M program. This, we believe, will create a strong downstream deal flow for all of you - incubators, angel investors, and VCs.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 1, 2017

In the beginning, I started the blog, because writing was cathartic for me and was a way for me to write down what I was advising founders already on a 1:1 basis. Special thanks to my co-founder Thea Koullias, CEO/founder at Jon Lou , who has helped me pull this all together. I feel lucky to have such a great team.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

Have domain expertise in an emerging area that the VC cares about and wants to develop more authority and deal flow around. An alternative path for people very early in their career is to join a firm that has a structured analyst sourcing program. And even better if you have a relationship and can connect them with the founder.

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Rob Go

MARCH 10, 2012

We try to maintain a pretty steady investment pace each year, although it tends to ebb and flow a little bit based on our deal flow and valuations in the market. As an investor, I’m building a portfolio, but a founder has a portfolio of one. But our intention is not to let things swing too much.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Build a specialized outbound origination program. The largest practitioners of these programs – including Battery Ventures , Great Hill Partners , Insight Venture Partners , Platinum Equity , Summit Partners , TA Associates , and TCV — typically have between 0.75 They are typically among the top quartile performers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. In exchange, these VCs/companies get early looks at new deal flow and offer aspiring entrepreneurs feedback and advice on their business plan.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 24, 2014

Every single topic about running a company has been written about ad nauseum, there are incubators, accelorators, mentoring programs, events, talks, etc. So what about a Techstars-like program for new VCs? In particular, I''m always trying to improve as a board member, but their aren''t any programs or classes for that.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2016

. # of investors who have participated in at least half of FG Angels deals: 30. Most active syndicate member investment total: $905k across 41 of our 42 FG Angels deals. % of investments with a female co-founder: > 20%. Our plan was not to generate investment deal flow for us to follow on with our main funds.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

The upperbound is obviously the total amount the founders want to raise.The lower bound is 5-10% of the total or $10,000, whicheveris greater. Dont get hung up on mechanicsor deal terms. Similarly, founders also should not get hung up on dealterms, but should spend their time thinking about how to make thecompany good.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 23, 2019

He’s also the founder of Converse Digital , and he’s got a new course that he’s been working on called Turning Conversations Into Customers: The Sales Prospecting Method for People Who Hate Sales Prospecting. I want to create deal flow for years, not just today because man, that’s really hard.

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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. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The interesting thing about working with angels (the tech founder kind) is that they’ve all run their own startups before so there is instant resonance with what you’re going through, the issues you’ll face and how to best help. Founders need to see eye-to-eye or things will be very difficult.

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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. Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype. Are you politically active? Why is that?

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