Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The current portfolio ranges from 60 Ghz chip sets (Nitero) to enterprise 2.0 ( InXero ) to family media ( Famigo ) companies. The Assistant Director will manage the deal flow process and lead our due diligence efforts to admit new members. ATI also works closely with MobileMondayAustin and Semantic Web Austin.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 12, 2010

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: Please differentiate between the governance of a VC fund versus the governance of companies in a VC fund’s portfolio? Is one more important than the other?

Government 28

Government Portfolio Technical Review Due Diligence 28

Version One Ventures

JUNE 3, 2013

Performing market research and due diligence for potential investments (interviewing customers/users, testing products and services, and/or financial modeling). Working with existing portfolio companies, including helping out with hiring, financial modeling, and research. Strong written and oral communication skills.

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Hiring North America Los Angeles Advisory Board 156

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

“When I was the lead [venture] investor on a deal, it was very important to be the industry expert,” Coats says, chiefly because of the knowledge and experience that experts bring to the due diligence process. It’s time consuming, but it makes sense for the first one or two venture investors to do that. Xconomy on Demand.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). Most indices are cap-weighted - more in line with a concentrated portfolio (i.e. startupcto

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2018

In fact, his work on this front for an earlier employer went so well that the client looked at the higher-than-expected returns and had Waseem divest the entire portfolio for a tidy profit of $2.1 Waseem Malleye: It’s very important to carry out thorough due diligence on any investment, especially in commercial real estate.

Management 124

Management Due Diligence Private Equity Forecast 124

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Remember, it’s a two-way street – do your due diligence too. Talking to their current portfolio companies usually provides little insight into the downside of working with them. All of this has had a way bigger impact on our business than sub-optimizing investors to try and get a better valuation.

Asia 132

Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

David Teten

AUGUST 18, 2017

To the extent possible, we try to use our social media presence to point back to our website, our Partners, and/or our portfolio companies’ websites. Fundamentally, we control our web presence. These often link to specific pages on our website. Social media presence. There is some inevitable duplication here of the website content.

Due Diligence 60

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

Other signs of engagement are: they ask you to meet with portfolio companies (they want feedback on your product and you), they ask you to meet a colleague, they set up a call to go through a product demo / financial walk-through, they ask to speak with customers, etc. even if it’s just a web conference call walk through.

Term Sheet 332

Term Sheet Due Diligence Campaign Sales 332

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 29, 2011

Just make sure you're easily findable on the web and various social networks so I can pinpoint your location in the graph within a few seconds. I don't mind cold intros at all--but it's hard when I can't figure out who you are in the context of my network. So how do you balance? CC them or give them a heads up.

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Technical Review Early Stage Due Diligence Venture Capital 114

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before taking equity in a company I go through a VC-like investment and due diligence process. Also, because I have equity in multiple tech start-ups I gain portfolio diversification benefits (meaning Im more likely to get lucky). Also, no matter how good a start-up looks there are many reasons it can fail. Next Gen Artisans.

Equity 40

Equity Technical Review San Jose Stock 40

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For both deal origination and due diligence, a host of companies aspire to be the “Bloomberg of private companies”. The goal is to intelligently structure the information collected and combine it with additional information scraped from the web and social media. How do VCs originate investments?

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Mistake #5 : not doing your due diligence on potential investors (at 38:36). Mistake #5: Not Doing Your Due Diligence on Potential Investors. issues to address include: How have they treated their other portfolio companies? Mistake #5: Not Doing Your Due Diligence on Potential Investors.

Software Review 111

Software Review Delaware Accredited Investor Due Diligence 111

Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

issues to address include: How have they treated their other portfolio companies? (i) issues to address include: How have they treated their other portfolio companies? (i) issues to address include: How have they treated their other portfolio companies? Are they good guys or jerks? Can they be counted-on and trusted?

Software Review 111

Software Review Delaware Accredited Investor Due Diligence 111

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

The workshop participants, of which there were about 30, brought diverse experience and expertise to the table – from young entrepreneurs with just a few years of experience in the consumer web, to seasoned executives with decades of experience in semiconductors, telecommunications and enterprise software.

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Software Review Technical Review Community Due Diligence 116

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

But the short answer is that the best intro is from a portfolio company of that VC or by other entrepreneurs whom that VC respects. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. I wrote a longer post on how to access VCs that you should read.

Developer 366

Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I had a portfolio of 8 or 9 small apps and websites. So I began divesting myself of my portfolio of websites and web applications. But luckily, but this time a secondary market for web applications had started to develop. A few years ago, the options for selling a small web application were bleak.

Software Review 27

Software Review Due Diligence Thailand Acquisition 27

Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I had a portfolio of 8 or 9 small apps and websites. So I began divesting myself of my portfolio of websites and web applications. But luckily, but this time a secondary market for web applications had started to develop. A few years ago, the options for selling a small web application were bleak.

Software Review 27

Software Review Due Diligence Thailand Acquisition 27

Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I had a portfolio of 8 or 9 small apps and websites. So I began divesting myself of my portfolio of websites and web applications. But luckily, but this time a secondary market for web applications had started to develop. A few years ago, the options for selling a small web application were bleak.

Software Review 27

Software Review Due Diligence Thailand Acquisition 27

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

At Fliqz, we met or exceeded the sales plan every month during the due diligence process. However, as we soon discovered, many of these firms were forced to hoard capital for existing portfolio companies and focus most of their time and energy on deciding which ones deserved these reserves. Tuesday, January 20, 2009.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

Austin Startup

AUGUST 9, 2017

Ask the users — the portfolio companies that have already taken money from them and gone through ups and downs. As much as the web has made finding direct feedback easier, it’s also magnified the opportunities for untruthful marketing. Should you join a particular accelerator? Should you accept money from a particular fund or investor?

Due Diligence 48

Due Diligence Social Media Portfolio Vesting 48

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We wanted a name that sounded studious and statistical, and was one or two short words — and, the name should reflect our business, which was mainly reporting on the performance of apartment properties, submarkets, markets and portfolios. “We We went through the dictionary looking for words to use.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur Haiti Nigeria 48

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

So the opportunity to learn from other entrepreneurs and the companies that we’re seeing in our portfolio companies was really enough for me to take the plunge and jump on board. . I think one of the most exciting things is that we’re seeing a lot of startups that aren’t just building a new web app.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco Boston 60

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Post-Mortem Title : Lessons from Kiko, web 2.0 If you are a web startup , you can take max 6 months to release your first version( for something like mint.com).Simpler In my mind, speed is a feature for all web apps so this was unacceptable, especially since it was used to run live, public websites. Company: Home Portfolio.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 31, 2011

No matter what you are involved with today, you can easily establish a niche website to add yet another passive stream of income to your portfolio and further diversify your risk across several income baskets. To be successful however, you must take your time and conduct the necessary due diligence up-front when selecting a topic or niche.

HTML 108

HTML Social Bookmarking Affiliate Engineer 108

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 31, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How Much Information Should you Give VCs for Due Diligence? 7 Inspiring Interviews That Every Web Designer/Developer Should Read – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Technical Review 91

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

That said, I have some of my stock portfolio in hedge funds managed by folks I know (I know you are thinking Madoff at this point), and most in vehicles that are on auto-pilot. A small part of my portfolio is purely in speculative plays, but I believe in value investing over time. The arbitrage simply works. The same places as above.

Internet 80

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon Web Services. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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