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Steel In Their Eyes – Why VC’s Should Be Startup CEO’s

Steve Blank

Today, you can start a web/mobile/cloud startup for $500,000 and have money left over. Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio). Then take a year as a product manager in a startup in the firm’s portfolio. Here’s why. ——-. People skills. People skills.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

Setting up a clean, effective web site that lists companies seeking funding and provides accounts for investors to interact with them is not rocket science. There are literally hundreds of platforms currently operating that connect investors and startups, and there have been at least a hundred others that have come and gone.

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Open Positions at the ATI

Austin Startup

The current portfolio ranges from 60 Ghz chip sets (Nitero) to enterprise 2.0 ( InXero ) to family media ( Famigo ) companies. The Assistant Director will manage the deal flow process and lead our due diligence efforts to admit new members. ATI also works closely with MobileMondayAustin and Semantic Web Austin.

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

And if you don’t hit one or two right, you end up with a mediocre portfolio. 1/ Bottoms-Up Competition – Seed funds are getting scooped by the well-heeled alumni of today’s web scale companies. 1/ Bottoms-Up Competition – Seed funds are getting scooped by the well-heeled alumni of today’s web scale companies.

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How Investors Can Bring More Than Just Money To The Table

YoungUpstarts

Building out your own network of other Angel or Seed investors increases the quality of your deal flow. Even if you can only shift the needle a few percentage points, over a number of years investing that could have a significant effect on the performance of your portfolio (and individual companies you back).

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. Perhaps in direct proportion to the number of “freemium” and “eyeballs” web deals funded.) What Do VC’s Do?

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

Mamoon Ismail Khalid, Venture Associate at Quake Capital Partners in New York City, describes their deal sourcing approach as follows: “We use a new Web Interface to collect information from our applicants in a standardized manner. What tools to VCs use to manage their deal flow and internal processes?