David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our categorization is not a technical one. As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Their only option is to work with management to try to fix the problems. Early liquidity.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

By Raj Narayanaswamy, cofounder and Co-CEO, Replicon. But a slowdown in venture capital financing and questions about a technology bubble have led to many entrepreneurs and startups considering other avenues for growth. Photo credit: Canada flag from Shutterstock. Immigrating from Canada to the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. It was all technical. Technical founder.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. Make sure you are perfectly clear on what skillsets will be most needed for the success of the business, and best fill a hole in your own resume and desired management team. How to go about it?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. But we never lost the finance bug. We were infatuated with tech. Factom, Inc.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. This evolves the VC from a server to a router. – Hire more non-Partner staff.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital , reports that “37% of our portfolio companies would be considered ‘impact’ qualified companies.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

  Growth financing, for example.  Mike Markulla came with the first investments - as a cofounder -- because investors felt the company needed leadership that could attract talent to be able to grow and he brought in Scott.   Growth financing, for example. Angels and Advisors. Managing Company Growth.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Advisor. ); STARTUP. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Consider whether or not youll be raising financing down the road.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

The mailing list works in two ways: Every two weeks the 10 most interesting listings are e-mailed to more than 40,000 startups on the “Help a Startup Out Digest” listserv, and every week the best technical listings are sent to the “Hackers Digest” listserv. Because there’s a fee to post jobs and resumes, there’s not much spam.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. The fact is the technical co-founder will be doing more work at the start. The number one thing holding back new startups is funding.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. They are so happy that they finally have a tool to manage their business.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it. Thanks to Ostap Bosak, Royal Fur ! #17

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David Teten

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I hope you can join us at some of DC Finance’s upcoming Family Office conferences in NYC. I have no financial interest in DC Finance or any of their conferences, but I will be speaking at some of their events.). If you use registration code 207 , it will facilitate their tracking. (I Register here.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. There will be one to three issues that are potentially problematic for your financing — address them head on. What will their concerns be?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Be Careful with Cofounders This was the surprise mentioned by the most founders. There weretwo types of responses: that you have to be careful who you pickas a cofounder, and that you have to work hard to maintain yourrelationship. The lesson: dontpick cofounders who will flake. These were the biggest: 1.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

but it’s manageable. Two founders works because unanimity is possible, there are no founder politics, interests can easily align, and founder stakes are high post-financing. He can be technical, but he must be able to wield the tools of influence. Four is an extremely unstable configuration and five is right out.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. But a lot of people are very apprehensive and we’ve seen a lot of failures with companies like Blippy who tried to make finances and money with social. Jason: I agree.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. Advertisers are brought to the site and driven mainly through self-service channels, so there is no need for a large sales force or account management team. and EBITDA margins are 47%.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

to build the satellite office and to personally oversee the recruitment and management of American executives who can lead the sales and marketing efforts. Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. to assist with the local go-to-market approach.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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