Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

They had been introduced by my friend Brian Garrett, a partner at Crosscut Ventures and the ambition outlined in their deck seemed almost unbelievable, “to make wireless charging of phones (and other devices) as easy as WiFi” that I had to see it for myself. The practical uses for uBeam technology is limitless.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Any outside advisors or board members available for discussion? Is there a real customer willing to give a testimonial?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2020

Then it extends to the hiring process. The Google team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage. When it’s time for due diligence, we will talk to your team. Instill optimism and self-confidence, but stay grounded in reality.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Here are a few tips to ensure that you and your partners start out on the right foot. Hire professionals. A CPA provides input on tax structure and metrics, and assists with due diligence related to your industry. You need to ask questions and perform due diligence before you invest substantial time and money.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

If you don’t perform a background check on your potential partner before doing business with him, you’re setting yourself up to get duped. It’s imperative to perform a due diligence check before entering into any business relationship — especially for an entrepreneur. But those who have something to hide will hide it.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2019

For instance, some focus solely on technical support, and others that work specifically in the marketing industry. Here are some benefits of partnering with a virtual assistant: · They help put processes in place. Hiring a virtual assistant can provide a way to set up these processes without having to focus on them yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As the rate of change continues to increase in business and technology, the more I’m convinced that marketing is the primary key to success for a new venture. Yet I find that many technical founders don’t feel they need it at all, or at best point to one person on the team who is marketing.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to be a Partner at two different VC firms over the past 9 years, and we’ve grown AUM 10X both times. Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. . The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. Lastly, gather feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2015

As an advisor to startups, I often get asked what to look for in an ideal co-founder or business partner. After some reflection, I now realize these attributes are necessary but not sufficient to be an ideal business partner. This means every entrepreneur needs partners who are smarter than they are in complementary domains.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

What makes this anniversary so special is that it marks my first full year as General Partner. And I work with my partner Boris to build the business that is Version One. What this means is that I am either making more quick gut decisions or am conducting even more due diligence than before. What’s next for Year 7?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. Now they are partners.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We’ve kept ourselves intentionally small as a firm so can keep our close connection with our portfolio founders from due diligence, to investment, and throughout the lifecycle of our investments. Foundry Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies and venture fund managers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Some investors are all about making money, while others care more about changing the world, advancing technology, or curing a disease that has ravaged their family. If you project a sense of desperation, or ignorance of the options and implications, no potential investor will give you the credibility to be your partner in a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. due diligence employees investors startup' Any outside advisors or board members available for discussion? Marty Zwilling.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles. A chief technology officer (CTO) is a C-suite executive who is focused on scientific and technological issues including web applications, mobile applications, electronic and digital media development.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

by David Nagrosst, head of sales for Cyxtera Technologies in Asia Pacific, Australia and Japan. Security-focused code reviews and rigorous penetration testing are also highly recommended. Of all the security threats mentioned here, this is probably the one that requires most due diligence and is the most difficult to identify.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2012

Then it extends to the hiring process. The Google team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage Minimize status differences and insist on courtesy and mutual respect. When it’s time for due diligence, we will talk to your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2013

Then it extends to the hiring process. The Google team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage. When it’s time for due diligence, we will talk to your team. Instill optimism and self-confidence, but stay grounded in reality.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

Before the advent of cloud technology and the Internet, company files had to be stored away in physical data rooms (PDRs). A 2012 study done by IBISWorld revealed that VDRs experienced a steady growth of about 17 percent annually as a result of technological advancements as well as the growth of global demand for these storage services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact. Focus on talent and people growth.

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David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. And even the firms that hire a placement agent almost always still have to run their own internal process. . Homebrew doesn’t report hiring a placement agent for their Fund I, despite (or because of) a well-pedigreed team.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

Although I put the general terms together, I will ultimately utilize an attorney for formality of the deal and to review anything that I may have missed. Due Diligence. Here are the 14 points not to forget: 1. Use plain language. Thinking Aloud deal making deals JP James Libreum Capital Management startup'

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Picking the right attorney in your startup is as important as picking the right business partner. My business partner and I made many mistakes in our first tech startup, and so many of them were the result of choosing a lawyer who was a terrible fit. My business partner and I were elated. We were on a roll.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Every potential early-stage Venture Capitalist should take a year and do it before he or she makes partner. Over time Venture firms realized that the partners in the firms needs a variety of skills: People skills (ability to recognize patterns of success in individuals and teams). we have a partner-track associates program.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

GRP Partners is looking to hire two analysts (maybe even three) to join our practice in Los Angeles. If this isn’t you, we’d probably still have a look if you did something truly exception – probably at startup or tech firm. And none of our partners actually worked for any of these firms. Yesterday.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Angels invest in one out of every forty deals they review (2.5%) versus the one out of 400 by VC’s (0.25%). They are professionals with full-time jobs, who often don’t have time for due diligence (and may not even know how to do it) and often make decisions through trusted referrals or based on gut feelings (more on gut feelings later).

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 9, 2014

He is Director of the Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurism and Business Ethics, and Chairman Emeritus of the Tech Coast Angels, the largest angel group in the United States. Nowhere is this more evident than with the issues related to business partners. In many ways having a business partner is like getting married. Enjoy! .

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Then it extends to the hiring process. The Google team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage. When it’s time for due diligence, we will talk to your team. Instill optimism and self-confidence, but stay grounded in reality.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Any outside advisors or board members available for discussion? Is there a real customer willing to give a testimonial?

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

What tech stack should a microinfluencer use? Many investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in our job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Tech stack.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. So we think about scaling a lot.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 6, 2013

For additional reading on this topic, check out this great article at the FRC review from Neil Roseman on Technical Hiring at Amazon. Instead, many decisions are driven off the occasional anecdotal datapoint that happens to stick in a partners’ memory. More diligence doesn’t make VCs perform better.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My Is that when it became big?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

If I’m interested I get to spend more time with them, if I’m not I don’t have to – A few companies per month come in that have fascinating business ideas that warrant my spending more time trying to understand their people, company, technology and market. I work hard, don’t get me wrong. We travel together.

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