Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. Encyclopedic knowledge of term sheets and startup buzzwords can be quickly learned, trained, and packaged. Ability” vs. “Knowledge”. The top tier funds see almost all of the best deals.

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Los Angeles Southern California Silicon Valley Technical Review 138

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

If the entrepreneur wants total control of their own venture, with no one looking over their shoulder, they should work within the limits of their own resources, a process called bootstrapping. Progress milestones become management objectives. Funding can be pulled, and future distributions withheld, if objectives are not met.

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Term Sheet Advisory Board Liquidation Preference Portfolio 140

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. These are many of the steps I went through when I joined HOF Capital. Compensation : base salary, share of profits of management company, carry. Union Square Ventures ( [link] ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2014

If the entrepreneur wants total control of their own venture, with no one looking over their shoulder, they should work within the limits of their own resources, a process called bootstrapping. Angel and venture capital money always comes with strings attached, starting with the obvious ones outlined in the term sheet for the deal.

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Term Sheet Advisory Board Liquidation Preference Startup 237

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2015

If the entrepreneur wants total control of their own venture, with no one looking over their shoulder, they should work within the limits of their own resources, a process called bootstrapping. Progress milestones become management objectives. Funding can be pulled, and future distributions withheld, if objectives are not met.

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Term Sheet Advisory Board Liquidation Preference Angel Investor 120

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet. Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. Fear & Greed.

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Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

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. . 1) Manage the firm . Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. There have been a lot of management shuffles at Twitter.

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LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. He's been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion.

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Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I have a standard aphorism I share when I speak with a group of MBA students: “There are two things that need to be explained away in order for me to invest in your startup: An MBA or a background in management consulting.”. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I have a standard aphorism I share when I speak with a group of MBA students: “There are two things that need to be explained away in order for me to invest in your startup: An MBA or a background in management consulting.”. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. Today, we are lucky to welcome Dan Kimerling of Deciens Capital. Venture Capital is not a complicated business.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. And this is a company that has managed to get an A+ list of investors and is executing very well. offering to invest $75K if we could find another $250K by September 30, 2005.

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San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

These mutual funds “mark-to-market” every day, and fund managers are compensated periodically on this performance. In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where “growth at all costs” had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. His term sheet series helped me at a time when I needed help. years where I developed skills building distributed systems over networks. He asked for nothing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. With Huddle, you can manage people, projects and information inside and outside your company, securely.&#. We were doing an educational session on term sheets.

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Term Sheet Europe Wiki Cloud 266

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

This is where numerous ventures fail. Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, RS: What makes 1M/1M unique?

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The 1M/1M program aims to help a million entrepreneurs globally reach $1 million in revenue (and beyond), thereby building the foundation of a robust, distributed and sustainable economic value creation that would add up to $1 trillion dollars in global GDP. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0,

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Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery. About VC Cafe.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53