David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Just a few years on and Snyk has evolved from being an open source vulnerabilities scanner and to becoming the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon. What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? The rest is history.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Legal docs don’t have to be a source of stress when you’re trying to set up a business. Don’t use these documents blindly ” Taylor Wessing – offers a suite of seed investment documents which are available on an open-source basis. All docs are here: [link].

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. Series Seed Financing Documents. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Series Seed Financing Documents : 1 Reblog. This is all built into a typical founder stock purchase agreement. This is great.simplified funding/founders docs out of the box. SeriesSeed.com.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

For a startup founder, this stage is when the “big idea” has become a passion for him, but he hasn’t written anything down yet. Lean startups operate on minimal money, an open source environment, and assume multiple iterations, with customer feedback, to get it right. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Because they are open source.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 30, 2023

Auto-GPT is an experimental open-source application showcasing the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model. Github AutoGPT is essentially goal-seek Auto-GPT is an open-source application, created by game developer Toran Bruce Richards. I gave AutoGPT access to my bank, financial statements, credit report, and email.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents? Startup Company Lawyer , March 14, 2010 After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source” equity seed financing documents.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Oh sure, founders work 60-80-hour weeks, but not employees. Maybe that means going to a conference or two, or working on an open-source project, or instituting “10% time&# at work (like Google’s 20% time but more reasonable for those of us who don’t have billions in profit from a cash-cow). But you can do it.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. So angel and seed stage investors’ returns will be dependent on good times continuing or on the ability of their portfolio companies to get financed. Nobody understands this better than First Round Capital.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

For a startup founder, this stage is when the “big idea” has become a passion for him, but he hasn’t written anything down yet. Lean startups operate on minimal money, an open source environment, and assume multiple iterations, with customer feedback, to get it right. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 2, 2010

Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR). Series Seed Financing Documents (by Fenwick & West). Then we’ll open source these and evangelize them across the startup world, at least in the US.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Let’s have a look at what early stage founders can expect in terms of oxygen. Capital Factory runs not only a tightly-knit co-working space, but also an incubator-accelerator type of organization with very founder-friendly terms.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. High Quality, and open sourced!

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised. Of course CapEx has been transformed into OpEx via changes in the tech infrastructure layer (open source, virtualization & cloud computing, offshoring, etc.). That’s no secret.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 24, 2020

AI has the power to solve really important problems and transform industries like healthcare and finance. The platform is flexible, adaptable, and open source. This marks the second time we’re investing in Gavin Uhma , Cape’s co-founder and CTO. are also the most sensitive. .

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

If you and your co-founder(s) are friends, why not work on your home instead? The internet has a ton of open-source software and other free services you can use for your business. Don’t have the money to rent a good office space yet? You have more options than you think; you can: Turn your apartment into an office. Stay online.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Cheered on by finance professors, Wall Street analysts, investors and hedge funds, companies have learned how to make metrics like Internal Rate of Return look great by one; outsourcing everything, two, getting assets off their balance sheet, and three only investing in things that pay off fast. This never ends well.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. I’m now in my second founder/CEO role, having raised more than $18.5 million in venture financing. Getting funded is hardly the end-all.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To help Horizon 2 and 3 organizations navigate all the processes, procedures and metrics the company has built to support Horizon 1 activities, individuals from support organizations (legal, finance, procurement, etc.) are assigned to work inside Horizon 3 organizations. Horizon 1 operates on goals and incentives. Do it Again!?

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc. Founders: Well-rounded founder teams >1 person, demonstrated understanding of entrepreneurship, relevant technical and business knowledge. Here’s the type of startups TechWildcatters is looking for: -Applications: B2B Web/Enterprise 2.0,

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc. Founders: Well-rounded founder teams >1 person, demonstrated understanding of entrepreneurship, relevant technical and business knowledge. Here’s the type of startups TechWildcatters is looking for: -Applications: B2B Web/Enterprise 2.0,

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Droid X Feature Comparison [INFOGRAPHIC] iPad By the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC] LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC] September 1, 2011 by Ben Parr 15 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share Where does the ideal startup founder come from? Whom is he or she connected to?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Teach ‘em Finance and Chase or Accenture will come and pick ‘em up 30 at a time. If there’s anything that hackers and founders hate, it’s an ivory tower attitude. 3) Open source your real estate. So what role, then, should local schools be playing in the innovation ecosystem? It was easy peasy.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. Robert and I talked about how it's working, the science of pseudoviruses and reporter genes, how his father's example in science and business set him on his path, and how to bridge the gap between science and finance.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. 3) Raise capital.

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