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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

You can stop making new investments, but it will take years to actually work through your active portfolio companies. I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund.

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The Different CTO Roles

www.allthingsdistributed.com

All Things Distributed Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. ThisCTO’s responsibilities often include advanced technology, competitive analysis,technology assessment, prototyping lab, partnering, planning, and architecturestandards.

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Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund

K9 Ventures

Four of the portfolio companies have had successful exits: CardMunch was acquired by LinkedIn , BackType was acquired by Twitter , IndexTank was acquired by LinkedIn , and just this week, card.io K9 Ventures II will still be syndicating most investments with other seed and angel investors. was acquired by PayPal.

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Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund

K9 Ventures

Four of the portfolio companies have had successful exits: CardMunch was acquired by LinkedIn , BackType was acquired by Twitter , IndexTank was acquired by LinkedIn , and just this week, card.io K9 Ventures II will still be syndicating most investments with other seed and angel investors. was acquired by PayPal.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

But in business, you want a lot of partners. However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm .