thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

Over the past month, Silicon Valley has been at the forefront of many conversations outside of the technology world. This tends to reinforce the lack of diversity in deal flow. Unfortunately not for groundbreaking technology, but for rampant sexual harassment and predatory behavior.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 12, 2013

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. Silicon Valley has a “pay-it-forward” culture where we try to help each other without asking for anything in return. Perfect World. What are you offering? Lessons Learned.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But with its growth and success it will encourage many people to enter the market who will lack 5 critical success criteria for earning positive returns. It’s the same with business – choose a market in which you have better odds at winning because you’re playing against less sophisticated players. Unfortunately that’s a myth.

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VC Cafe

JULY 31, 2020

To be an effective VC, proactivity is part of the job description: Proactively learn about new companies trends and markets Proactively network (deal flow, peers, industry partners) Proactively seek opportunities to help. For me it’s about obsessing myself with the company and its market.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. Most people think that being a successful investor is about finding the right deals and nurturing the teams through the difficult times to come out with a great company. He’s backed so many of the Silicon Valley’s young elite tech professionals.

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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. Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active. Initial investment targets are usually larger than $2M, sometimes up to $25M or $50M.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

One theme seems to come up over and again, especially from geographies outside Silicon Valley: lack of a reliable pipeline of deals. On July 1, 2006, commenting on the Indian startup scenario, I had written a blog post called Too Much Money, Too Few Deals. Healthcare e-Market.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

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. a lot of them are moving here from Silicon Valley! Venture Capitalists and Family Offices from around the U.S.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2016

His popularity is largely rooted in his personal success—he originally worked as a VC and was in charge of deal flow in Silicon Valley. Spotting Market Inefficiencies. Kimbrell is a top rated instructor teaching nine different courses on entrepreneurship, with over 20,000 students enrolled.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Schwartzfarb describes “Sell More Faster” as the indispensable guide for entrepreneurs seeking product-market fit, building their sales team, developing a growth strategy and chasing accelerated, repeatable selling success. “I Early stage sales and product-market fit are topics that I love talking about,” said Schwartzfarb.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia. Well, you can't really go "global" without a go-to-market strategy that evaluates different markets, and assesses the competitive positioning in each of them.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

Startups and the business of financing them have, with the help of Twitter, HBO Silicon Valley, and Shark Tank have become part of the global business lexicon. 4/ LPs noted that the term “pre-seed” is really a U.S. phenomena and the contagion has yet to spread to other geographies, though they expect it to eventually.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. peerbackers. efforts to get them.

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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. At a university business plan competition, for the first time they can swim in the sea of expertise that we/I take for granted in the middle of Silicon Valley.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 8, 2005

While there are not nearly the amount of startups on the East Coast as in Silicon Valley, being in New York I do have tremendous access to Fortune 500 companies. In other words, inventing great products that no one wants to buy is a waste of time, money and effort.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Out of 5,923 investment professionals in our dataset, 916 (15.5%) were focused primarily on origination and marketing. Their late stage deals outside of the venture centers outperform by ~5% vs. those in the venture centers; early stage deals outperformed by ~4%.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs. He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro.

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Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

It was a great product addressing a large market opportunity and was interested in seeing how the AngelList syndicate process worked. As with all M&A exits, there was a round of congratulatory messages to the founder in the Silicon Valley echo chamber. I have heard from many investors who think they got a raw deal.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

The modal VC thesis is: “We invest in great teams addressing large markets with disruptive solutions” Who invests in lousy teams addressing tiny markets with outdated solutions? Real sees 80% of all seed deals in Canada. . They exist as heuristics, but at the end of the day, deal flow trumps everything.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There is an ongoing debate between investors whichis more important, the people, or the idea—or more precisely,the market. Whereas Marc Andreessen says hed back ok founders in ahot market over great founders in a bad one. [ 9 ] These two positions are not so far apart as they seem, because goodpeople find good markets.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. .&# The “haves&# possess money, power, influence, or the right friends with those qualities.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

Micro Ventures ) or provide a secondary marketing between investors (i.e. Second Market ). FC's approach is much more akin to the deal flow and social proof model of AngelList, with the ability to make small investments in a number of companies. Of course, this is comparing apples to oranges.

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