Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund. If we’re doing too many deals in eCommerce or healthcare IT we might ask whether we’re seeing enough deals in other categories. Far from it.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Early this year Amie Fineberg, who has been my amazing assistant for over 10 years, mentioned that she and several other employees at Benchmark had fallen in love with a new ecommerce service, and that I might want to check it out. Fundamentally, we share the common concern that many of the new “Ecommerce 2.0”

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 1, 2015

A Fireside Chat with Bill Gurley of Benchmark: The Future of Ecommerce — September 15, 2015 from Sailthru on Vimeo. Gil Dibner recommended this video with Bill Gurley in a recent post about the five forces of venture capital. That’s significant because the top of the funnel is the most valuable place to be.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Tech stack. Crunchbase.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Practical Advice for Raising Early Stage Venture Capital – [link]. Fred Wilson on Why the Collapse of Venture Capital is Good – [link]. The Ecommerce Graveyard: How 37 Popular Sites Used to Look – [link]. Common portfolio mistakes (and how to fix them) – [link]. Staffing your startup?

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Prior to joining Quigo, Mr.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A new flock of startups has launched to support content creators to craft (videos, art, newsletters, music, games, courses, etc), find an audience, generate income (subscriptions, tipping, ecommerce, NFTs, etc) and engage their communities. “What the creator economy promises, and what it actually does”, The New Yorker.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

So I started introducing him to portfolio companies. And we’ve designed the economic incentives so that Greg is aligned with the overall performance of GRP in addition to his investments so I’m excited to get him involved across all of our portfolio companies helping provide fresh perspectives on the important topic of growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We have a few portfolio companies going through brand changes. We are trying hard to live up to the guidelines we laid out for our investors, our portfolio companies and our community. And over the past 4 weeks I’ve worked on 6 transactions (2 brand new fundings, 4 portfolio events). You can follow Greg on Twitter here.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 29, 2011

I'm quite possibly the least fashionable person in the entire venture capital industry. Yet, I wondered whether or not she had accidently met with the wrong VC. She saw the sneakers, right? I think I might have been wearing my Android robot walking the dog t-shirt. Lucky for me, she didn't seem fazed, and we hit it off.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 18, 2013

As cash requirements drop, and as capital gets commoditised, competing on value add is the key to making money as a venture capital fund. Doing that well requires that we combine great investment decisions with the capability to really help our portfolio, and I mean really help.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The consensus is definitely negative, but one thing that has buoyed my optimism about the prospects for our portfolio is the number of new funds raised in London recently. A lot of them are focused on Series A investing and favour the ecommerce and marketplace sectors that Forward Partners focuses on.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands. eCommerce is hot again! Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. I think you’ll enjoy watching.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 12, 2016

OpenView are one of my favourite venture capital funds, largely because they are one a small number of VCs globally pioneering a similar model to Forward Partners. We are focused on idea and seed stage ecommerce and marketplace companies in the UK. They are focused on expansion stage SaaS companies in the US.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

That's why people often take the portfolio approach when managing their career. If you're going to start the next daily-deal site, you better eat, sleep, breathe deals, ecommerce, and customer acquisition, because that's what it's going to take to be successful.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 22, 2015

In recent years VCs have been rushing to add value by hiring non-investors to help their portfolio companies. I touched on this subject last week when I wrote that Capitalism is being replaced by talentism. Google Ventures: has teams that help portfolio companies with design, engineering, recruiting, marketing and partnerships.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

They are at the tops of their classes and want to get into private equity or venture capital some day. So this summer we sent him to work in one of our portfolio companies in product management on our dime. I have nothing against these young people – the dialers. And that is how it should be. Kelly is younger.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 14, 2011

Last Thursday night, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels joined a small group of technical folks from cloud and commerce related First Round portfolio companies for dinner at Double Crown. It was hard to keep our dinner small as there were very few companies in our portfolio that couldn't benefit from a relationship with the company in some way.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

As a venture capital fund, our success is driven by backing companies with large financial outcomes. This huge value will come from user purchases in virtual goods, eCommerce, digital collectibles/NFTs, etc. What opportunities do we see in the Metaverse? We’ve made several investments in this space.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Often times that will mean the companies are ‘close to the transaction’ or ecommerce related. Lyst and MoviePilot are good examples of businesses from our portfolio that fit into this category. For me the sweet spot has now shifted to businesses that are able to able to extract a high ARPU from a focused community.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 28, 2012

Ecommerce has gone through a similar evolution – starting with the simple idea of selling stuff of on the web, with books as the first category, to filling out all the other, more difficult categories (clothes, jewellery, etc.). Ironically, social networks themselves were a much weaker investment theme.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

For example: If you had brick and mortar locations, how much can you pivot to Ecommerce (for basics), so customers can acquire goods without having to leave the house? They may have seen new ideas from other companies in their portfolio so be open to additional suggestions. Can you also offer specialized services?

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). There are few VC firms in the US taking this approach and at Forward Partners we intend to lead with this approach in the UK and reinvent venture capital.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 8, 2017

Until now we have focused on marketplaces and next generation ecommerce. That meant lots of consumer and small business focused marketplaces and next generation ecommerce companies. Lost My Name, Appear Here and Thread are three of the better known examples, but overall there are 37 companies in that portfolio.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Prior to NASDAQ, Mr. Weild spent 14 years at Prudential Securities in a number of senior management roles, including President of eCommerce, Head of Corporate Finance, Head of Technology Investment Bankingand Head of Equity Capital Markets in New York, London and Tokyo. He serves as a Managing Partner of both funds.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The second panel will focus on collaborative investing in non-public alternative investments (private equity, venture capital, receivables, etc.). . He also worked in the ecommerce division at General Electric. Nic Perkin is the President and Co-Founder of The Receivables Exchange. and Economics, both from Cornell University.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

It is still unclear how much capital these businesses will require or what the exit market will be like. Venture Capital' A number of factors are combining that enable faster product iteration in hardware. 3D printing is reducing the cost of prototyping.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

We are in 62 startups and 19 VC funds now ( our portfolio ), and I have some good data at this point on how profitable our endeavors have been, so I feel pretty qualified to share these lessons with you. We invest in VC funds when it serves to diversify our startup portfolio in the hands of proven experts. capital being capital?—?we

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. I think how hard it is for me to be hands-on with a handful of portfolio companies. He was talking profusely about their portfolio company email lists and the knowledge that is shared.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We can see ecommerce/marketing has been boosted by COVID and security is in second place, with cyber criminality not slowing down. As you can see, both the data and security categories are booming, and we welcome the addition of payments and banking infrastructure fueled by the expansion of a new generation of financial services.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

unfortunately, social commerce morphed to mean solutions like Facebook eCommerce stores offered by numerous small vendors who are now mostly no longer in business. When we consider investing in SaaS startups at Hurt Family Investments (34 SaaS startups and counting in our portfolio ), we always look for natural network effects.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital. Venture Hacks equity section. Pingback: The Entrepreneur’s Wish List from VCs [part 1] | Venture Capital Cafe.

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