David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “ Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”. 4) Manage deal flow. Pitchbot.vc

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors. Teten: The new generation of entrepreneurs is asking more from their investors than just money. Mari has been a serial intrapreneur for a large part of her career.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. Btw, here’s our startup [link] We are bringing yield management to the restaurant industry. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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 . 2) Market .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Genuine VC

JULY 26, 2010

Micro VCs are notorious for building large and friendly syndicates. While traditional VCs sometimes have a love/hate relationship with their syndicate partners (often depending on how well their mutual portfolio companies are performing), it seems as though in the Micro VC arena all of the players speak and act like best friends.

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Syndicate Syndication Due Diligence Seed Stage 128

Rob Go

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

This week, we helped organize an Angel Bootcamp where some of Boston’s most successful angel investors shared their experiences and lessons learned to a crowd of aspiring angels and entrepreneurs. The reason is that most seed syndicates have room for 5-10 angels or more, but only room for 1-3 funds.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2016

Specifically: Put Entrepreneurs First. It’s reflected in how we treat entrepreneurs, how we work with our portfolio companies and the kind of structures we use for our investments. Many are approaching the market in ways that are antithetical to successful startup investing.

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Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor Colorado 48

VC Adventure

AUGUST 10, 2010

As a result, we are all emotionally involved in the investment (a phrase you’ll see in later posts about this topic) which I believe is both beneficial to the entrepreneur and extremely important to the VC firm. In this case neither Niel (nor I) had any interest in creating a traditional syndicate to fund the company.

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Syndicate Syndication Due Diligence SEM 74

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000.

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Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

Ten questions the entrepreneur should ask the (prospective) investor. If they’re making it as part of a group that the entrepreneur likes, fine. If they are “solo,” though, the entrepreneur will want to know a lot about their attitudes and expectations, especially when things go wrong. What is your due diligence process?

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Entrepreneur Valuation Sweat Equity Common Stock 60

Rob Go

JANUARY 17, 2017

In the last three investments I’ve made, there has either been a lifecycle VC involved or one was interested but didn’t end up being part of the syndicate. But I usually counsel entrepreneurs in this position to do the extra legwork to push the investor closer in the direction of a high-conviction seed.

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Due Diligence Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 28

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

million and is established by negotiations between the entrepreneur and the angel investors. Working within a network of angel investors also expands the pool of expert resources and helps divide the work of screening companies and investment due diligence. Strength of Entrepreneur and Team. TARGETCOMPANY. 10% max.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Detailed due diligence. At ffVC, our primary origination strategy is to provide a high level of services to entrepreneurs, and then let word of mouth spread. They’re the entrepreneurs on the cutting edge of their respective disciplines. We just need to assess each entrepreneur against our decision criteria.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the things we frequently discuss with founders is how to interpret and manage their dialogue with VCs when raising capital. Good VCs try to pass as quickly as possible once they decide on that outcome, in order to be respectful of an entrepreneur’s time. The ultimate reference is through a portfolio founder.

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