David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

If you’re from a major media outlet, please contact me to attend as a guest the pitch night in midtown Manhattan on June 27. For media and corporate sponsors interested in attending Pitch Night, contact Jennell Lynch, jlynch@naicpe.com. ###. Media Contacts. About Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

If you’re from a major media outlet, please contact me to attend as a guest the pitch night in midtown Manhattan on June 27. For media and corporate sponsors interested in attending Pitch Night, contact Jennell Lynch, jlynch@naicpe.com. ###. Media Contacts. About Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

Our unique approach to investing, coupled with a pioneering spirit, provides the vision to guide early stage growth companies beyond today and toward future success. Bryant Stibel - Value Growth Cowboy Ventures Cowboy Ventures helps seed-stage technology companies grow.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Network.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Network.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. For example, if you’re an early stage company dealing with complex regulation (think Uber in transportation, Oscar in healthcare, LendingClub in finance), we have people who can help.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Before you start talking to large VCs, find some early stage investors. Stefan Tirtey, Partner at Doughty Hanson Ventures , created this document with Berlin early stage investors. We’ve had a lot of success promoting job openings through newsletters to our user base as well as through our social media channels.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2017

Early-stage companies need to define their niche in the market they serve and iterate, iterate, iterate until they’ve got a solution that delights their customer and can scale. Later-stage companies are in operating mode. It’s not magic, but it can be magical when it all comes together.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

The biggest media attention in our industry went to the so-called “super angels&# during the 2009/10 timeframe and while I don’t believe there is such thing as a super angel I believe that much media attention was deserved. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. There has been a preponderance of early-stage deals that have seen quick exits. And the best early-stage investors know this.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It continues to be highly dependent on company, stage, and location. At the early stages, raising the first $2m tends to be straightforward in most geographies that have meaningful startup communities. Since we are early stage investors, it simply doesn’t matter if we are a short term bull or bear.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

You thought media twitter was bad… You thought tech twitter was bad… — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 24, 2015. So why invest in that period of uncertainty unless it’s early-stage and thus valuation matters less. At least later stage investors. It was a nerve racking morning.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. As you can see in this Cambridge Associates data, early-stage investing beat later stage investing in returns in 70% of the past 30 years. Yeah, true.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 9, 2011

The event gives emerging companies the opportunity to pitch and network with investors, executives, customers and the media. Bigger companies like Google have tons of cash and are looking to buy early stage companies (so you can get a big payday). Last week marked the 6th year for the conference "Launch: Silicon Valley."

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Editor’s note: Local tech media company BostInno (a division of the American City Business Journals) hosts an annual Boston State of Innovation conference. So, the bar will be different for each investor, and for very early stage fundraising, the goal is to find true believers more than convincing skeptics. (My

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

In my view the terminology being used for early stage investors by the press and the media is not as clear as it should be. I’ve talked about this on several occasions when I’ve been at conference and on panels, but I figured it would make sense to do a post explaining my taxonomy of the early-stage investing world.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. He then went on the create an early-stage VC that I track closely?—?

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

A few things jumped out at me: We all know that software companies get the lion’s share of dollars (about half), but it’s impressive to see how consistent the investing is from early stage $1-2 million rounds to late stage $10-15 million rounds. 11% of deals were Cleantech and most of those were early stage.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets). This means more noise in the system for seed stage investors.

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www.ashmaurya.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

Running through the complete process in the early stages makes you much more efficient in later stages as you get a feel for the industry and have warm introductions. You then package that material into an e-book, report, video, or other media. Use FollowerWonk to get a feel for their followers.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Their late stage deals outside of the venture centers outperform by ~5% vs. those in the venture centers; early stage deals outperformed by ~4%. Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts. I’m looking forward to seeing how they evolve.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

FYI – this is tuned towards an individual who is still in the relatively early stages of their career. Usually, people who take this strategy are extremely social, go to tons of events, consume and retain information they read on social media, techcrunch, Medium, etc. So, here it is.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While there have been times in the last dozen or so years, usually during times of venture capital excess, that cash to founders, early-stage executives and other key employees has matched regular market compensation (still with the upside of the equity), this is not true in the vast majority in the start-up game. Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I’m an early-stage investor. I normally look to invest my first money below a $20 million valuation and when deals get to lofty prices I normally bow out to later-stage investors who have deeper pockets. Social Media Tech Market Analysis' And from an investment perspective I remain incredibly long DataSift.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

John Jantsch (10:49): Now let's hear from a sponsor, you know, today everybody's online, but are they finding your website, grab the online spotlight and your customer's attention with Semrush from content and SEO to ads and social media. From Content and SEO to ads and social media, Semrush is your one-stop-shop for online marketing.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. Ada Ryland continues to help founders gain clarity and navigate through some tricky territory in the early stages.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

For a long time, they were basically the only game in town for seed and early stage funding in NYC. Not only has the NYC ecosystem changed, but the whole ecosystem around early and seed investing has innovated. This is thanks to my participation in social media. It means having a diverse set of business relationships.

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The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 6, 2011

Sure – AOL Ventures is the VC arm of AOL , focused on early stage investing in consumer internet businesses. Later stage opportunities are also out of the mandate of our fund. While we definitely understand that AOL is a large media company and acquisitive, we’re not really involved in those discussions.

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2010

Here’s Audrey’s excellent summary: In it, Sacca observes that 10 years ago, it cost more than a million dollars for a tech business to launch, with steep hardware, software, office and internet costs, not to mention the “lavish parties so print media would write about their pipe dreams.&#. Lowercase Capital’s Creed.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

the dip in capital invested but rise in deal flow is a sign of health as investors return to funding more early-stage deals,” said Jessica Canning, global research director for Dow Jones VentureSource. Through its Local Media Group, Dow Jones operates community-based newspapers and Web sites. This is a slight decrease from $7.9

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. would love your thoughts on our startup (well its well started) imorial.com [link] Be a social media star: a menu board of 5 competences « flowing motion [.]

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

You may think, “But I don’t use social media, and neither do my (conservative, old-school) potential investors!” The reality: you and your target investors are in the social media matrix whether you like it or not. For early-stage founders, I suggest AngelList and Crunchbase.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. Old media’s problems are the costs not the lack of paywalls. November 28, 2012.

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