David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . Why is it now more feasible to use technology in the VC investing process?

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

Seed venture capital firms can make more significant follow-on investments to keep or increase their equity stake in the company. Because of this, getting seed venture money, for example, becomes more feasible for many startup companies, particularly those in the technology industry.

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ithacaVC

MAY 24, 2014

Good perspective though I am favorably biased towards activity that I see “up here” Our deal flow is strong and constantly growing. Hello Friends and Colleagues, We are pleased to pass along to you our recent paper “Entrepreneurship in New York: The Mismatch between Venture Capital and Academic R&D”.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Every potential early-stage Venture Capitalist should take a year and do it before he or she makes partner. Venture capital as a profession is less than half a century old. Market/technology acuity (patterns of success, domain expertise). Market/technology acuity (patterns of success, domain expertise). Here’s why.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?”

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

It feels like a tsunami of deal flow , and for me, I’ve outlined how I pay attention to inbound flow in terms of what gets priority. And one of the sources of that flow are the new accelerators (I’m lumping incubators, accelerators, etc.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When I was new at Venture Capital I was trying to figure out the business. What kind of deals should I be doing? One of the major calibration pieces for me was where to find deal flow. As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. What stage? What price?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Last week, we looked at one of the latest reports from the investment research firm CB Insights , tracking the top venture capital firms across the U.S. in terms of their deal activity. Healthcare was the number 2 sector for both the deal numbers and deal size.).

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Haystack

JULY 13, 2018

About a month ago, I wrote a post about how the Bay Area seed ecosystem is generating deal flow levels that are nearly impossible to keep up with. To set the context, all new inbound deal flow comes to me via text message (20%) or email (80%).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

I’ve been writing checks for 8 years, and was lucky to get my start in the industry with the team at Spark Capital where I was able to witness some amazing early investments as part of that team. As I start my second 10 years in venture capital, I want to both reflect on some recent learnings that have changed the way I approach the business.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably. Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. .

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

At the time, LA and Santa Clara were both the epicenter of the technology industry due to the significant overlap between the aerospace/military industry (Los Angeles) and the computing business (Silicon Valley). At the same time, the consumerization of the technology business made Silicon Valley the de facto capital of all things tech.

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Los Angeles Southern California Silicon Valley Technical Review 138

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

In our funds we do about 12 deals / year and see several thousand so the funding rate is somewhere between 0.2–0.5% of deals we evaluate depending on how you count what constitutes “evaluating a deal.” This is Venture Capital. Chances are you’ll see a lot of good deals. Don’t rush to do deals.

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Angel Investor Deal Flow Portfolio Forecast 301

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google. Investors will be bullish on startups.

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Technical Review Venture Capital India Startup 93

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

Over the past month, Silicon Valley has been at the forefront of many conversations outside of the technology world. Unfortunately not for groundbreaking technology, but for rampant sexual harassment and predatory behavior. They decide which VCs receive capital to invest in entrepreneurs.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

But that’s where it gets interesting, because whether or not you could replicate Gust’s platform… It’s irrelevant: despite the award-winning platform and the technology under the hood, Gust’s primary advantage is NOT in our engineering, surprising though that may seem.

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aweissman.com

JULY 31, 2007

Venture Capital. Rarely have I read a more interesting essay about the psychology of venture investing than this piece written by Todd Jaquez - Fissori. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jul 31, 2007. One could argue what really causes the compromise.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Founded in May 2013 by Atlanta Technology Angels, Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Invest Atlanta and the Metro Atlanta Chamber, Startup Atlanta has also recently refreshed its website to achieve its aim of helping entrepreneurs connect with one another, as well as get supported by the ecosystem within the greater Atlanta region.

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Gust

APRIL 23, 2014

That’s likely why SWIFT, the international banking consortium, this year named Gust the world’s most innovative financial technology startup, and why the US software industry has awarded Gust the CODiE for Best Collaboration Solution for two years in a row.

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Silicon Valley is a very special place – the nucleus of high-growth, high technology entrepreneurship in the US, indeed, in the world. The Valley produces world-class entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists and successful high-tech companies – all growing and creating jobs on one relatively small peninsula.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably. Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. .

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Haystack

JULY 15, 2018

Recently on this blog, I’ve been attempting to unpack how an investor can sort through deal flow and potential investment opportunities. After writing about “ the quick kill ” to discard of inbound flow, next I wrote about what actually captures my attention and graduates to a meeting.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). High Road Capital Partners Deal Sourcing Keynote. Prestegaard, High Road Capital Partners.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Is it no accident, then, that one of the founding fathers of venture capital, Don Valentine of Sequoia, also came from Fordham? Maybe a key to being in venture is a desire to help others? To be a good VC, you're going to offer up a lot of time to companies that may never pay back a dime--or even to deals you never wind up doing.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. When more capital is chasing the same set, entry prices go up and returns are likely to go down. You lose way more than you win. You wait the longest for liquidity.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Early Stage Malaysia 108

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 19, 2018

FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. Earlier this year at the FUND Conference in Austin, Texas, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 18, 2019

1/ Consumer feels dry: I can’t prove this but simply based on how our deal flow has changed and frankly what is getting funded by the top institutional funds, consumer is increasingly harder to get right. These entrepreneurs are able to build off of advances in SaaS and fintech technologies to help enter these new markets.

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Haystack

JULY 4, 2019

I spend a good deal of time sharing deal flow up and downstream with Series A and B investors, and when they ask me about opportunities coming down the pipeline in 6-12 months, I usually share what I’ve been told from the founders themselves over email or phone — I become their subtle pitch man.

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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. Venture Capitalists and Family Offices from around the U.S. and around the world. To learn more how J.P.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

We’ve heard this trope below, but the data does show it and in the last year, this is what I’ve observed — it’s easy to the pre-seed round, but then folks line up to pitch the best seed funds, but those seed funds are drowning in deal flow from the pre-seed funnel.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

There are too many angels, accelerators, scouts, and seed funds who are giving them checks early, potentially diverting deal flow. Acceptance that they face legitimate competition from the below and above. There are too many startups to keep track of.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Deal flow, then, is often a random walk. Yes, they can filter their inbound and hone their decision-making skills and processes, but given all the new startups forming, unless you’re Y Combinator or First Round, I don’t know how you can see even 50% of what end up as great companies.

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