David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. —– Indie.vc

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends. It’s a new year – 2016.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

In addition, I think that a “peace treaty&# between early-stage investors and startup companies on standard terms (at least at a term sheet level) is a step in the right direction. If you don’t, please educate yourself on this site, Venture Hacks and the term sheet series by Brad Feld/Jason Mendelson, among other places.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Transcript of Honest Startup Advice From Somebody Who’s Been Through It written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: If you’re a founder of a startup, maybe you need some brutally honest advice from somebody who’s been there. Back to Podcast. Transcript. ” Rand, thanks for joining me.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. You’re a small fish.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

Almost all technology startup companies that I work with are C corps. Any company that raises venture financing will need to be a C corp in order to issue preferred stock. Such inflexible features are typically unattractive to venture investors. citizen/resident stockholders.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America?

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Our goal was to be the best first check partner for enterprise founders, bringing the value add of a VC firm while moving with the speed and conviction of an angel investor. Most importantly, we wanted to thank our amazing group of founders that we have had the privilege to partner with over the years. Sincerely, Team Boldstart.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Education plays a major role in venture capital. For example, digital startups are more likely to secure funding if someone on their founding team holds a doctoral degree. When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ).

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. Venture capital is one method of getting a company off the ground, but it’s not the only method. Venture capital is also not a guarantee of success. VC funding gets you startup capital and a chance.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” At the same time, we also started to see an increase in startup failure.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

It’s to highlight some of the key parts of your opportunity and what makes it so amazing that whoever it is that you’re talking to, whether it’s a bank, or an investor, or a family member, or a potential business partner, that they are on the edge of their seat and they ask for your full plan, and they want to know more.

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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

In the early days, tracking the percentage of ownership in a startup is easy. There’s the owner—maybe a partner or two—but unless employees are offered equity from the get-go, there’s typically not a whole lot of dilution. Things can escalate quickly, however, when a startup decides to seek investors. Why do cap tables matter?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. The goal of this talent is to help mentor startups as they scale and navigate the myriad of issues they will face in growing their business. I visited Bend last year and caught up with his progress.

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Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2017

million for the SaaS startup I founded because sometimes we see success coming out of the blue, when really that person benefited from a broad network of support. See Also: What Do Venture Capital Firms Want? If you want to run a startup, go with what you know. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading.

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