Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 13, 2014
People often ask me what VCs look for when we hire partners and many have asked how to become VCs themselves one day. In Kara’s case I got to see her work on deal structuring first hand having worked closely with her on her board at P.S. XO. That turns out to be much more difficult than non-investors often imagine.
David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well. Details here.
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David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. I’ve been looking for suggestions for an initial deal structure that is appropriate for the theoretical case of a trusted dev shop putting in $100k in market-value of services over a 6 month period in time.
Cracking the Code
OCTOBER 10, 2008
Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. To understand when the business has started to climb the sales learning curve and is in a position to hire more reps profitably, you have to think in terms of CMRR instead of bookings.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JANUARY 21, 2011
That said, I have some of my stock portfolio in hedge funds managed by folks I know (I know you are thinking Madoff at this point), and most in vehicles that are on auto-pilot. A small part of my portfolio is purely in speculative plays, but I believe in value investing over time. The arbitrage simply works. The same places as above.
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