David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

We market to four populations: High-potential founders. High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. Mailchimp.com **, to manage my mailing lists, which people join by registering on Teten.com or PEVCTech.com.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 4) Manage deal flow. 9% (1 / 12). 1) Market fund. Pitchbot.vc

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 19, 2020

Software has been eating venture funds by simplifying syndicates, managing SPVs, and even traditional fund management. What rolling funds do not address is traditional portfolio construction that requires a thoughtful capital deployment strategy. How much capital are you reserving for follow on financings?”

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In our prior lives, the Bolster founders worked together to scale up a business called Return Path and also. worked as advisors and mentors to numerous early stage founders and startups. The roots of Bolster Prime and Bolster Ventures pre-date the founding of Bolster. What about the middle?

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cap Table Early Stage 62

Version One Ventures

JULY 6, 2016

Here’s a quick recap of some of this quarter’s news clippings for V1 and our portfolio companies. They are all yet to be announced but include our first Fintech company, a dev tool company and knowledge management company. Portfolio companies in the news. Hope you had a great Canada Day and Fourth of July weekend!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

But they are also a tax on your time with portfolio companies, looking for new investments, running your shop and honestly they are a tax on your family life. Co-founder discontent. Reference checking is to confirm or disprove a strong, positive intuition you already have about founders that could lead to an investment or a pass.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

When John Brockman ,founder of Edge , interviewed NathanMyhrvold his first question was “ What’s a CTO ”,to which Nathan replied: “Hell if I know. But then subsequently, the CTO isresponsible for actually integrating and running the technology, i.e. the roleof the ‘operations manager.’

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

And if you don’t hit one or two right, you end up with a mediocre portfolio. It may be easy to mock these moves as “touristy,” but these fund managers didn’t build empires by being silly — they were strategic over the long-term and methodical. If you hit one or two right, you can make a fortune in seed.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Early Stage Malaysia 108

Agile VC

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In addition, investing in startup tech companies turns out to provide only a modest level of diversification… angel investments tend to form a high beta portfolio, with reasonably close correlations to public equity markets. ” But as an angel one can overweight this factor. .”

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 4, 2014

Part of our presentation will be portfolio financials, which, because we’re relatively new, aren’t exceptionally volatile (LP speak: most of our investments are still carried at original value since no additional fundraising has occurred). The result has been many new managers, many new funds. high net worth individuals.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 27, 2014

The first were people who know the founder really well, and believe in them. They wrote a check because they believed in the talents of the founder and wanted to support him or her. Almost all the founders we back have seed and series A syndicates that look like this. But this is slowly changing.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Today, startup founders focus on the fundamental challenges of our time with energy, life sciences and industrial technologies dominating Houston’s tech scene. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I suppose there may be a sense of prestige or credibility garnered by managing a fund of capital, but there are some major advantages to being independent. The reason is that most seed syndicates have room for 5-10 angels or more, but only room for 1-3 funds. Your choice whether you want to do a call to check me out or not.”

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2015

.”) But at the end of 2013, when the JOBS Act became official and AngelList created Syndicates, we decided to understand the phenomenon better by participating in it. With Select, we are no longer limited to investing $15 million per company. Matt states in his post: “A company’s values should never really change. .”

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Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

It’s been a yearly tradition for me to share a semi-quantitative view into our portfolio at NextView. Three years ago, I published our first “Stroll through the portfolio” and I’ve published updates each year in January. Syndicates: We have a bias to lead rounds. Traction in Ad Tech Portfolio.

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VC Adventure

JULY 23, 2013

I just tweeted about an unfortunate email exchange I just had with a company founder, but 140 characters isn’t enough to really do the matter justice. Update below with the final email in the chain where the entrepreneur apologizes (and talks about some challenges around fundraising that led to his frustration). I need to deal with it.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 10, 2010

At the end of his post Brad lists out the companies in the Foundry portfolio that started as seed investments ( AdMeld , Gnip , Lijit , Mandlebrot , Next Big Sound , Standing Cloud , and Trada ). To be clear, while there is a small group of us that are Trada founders, the idea of Trada is completely Niel’s.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Active angels invest in a diversified portfolio of 10 or more companies, usually spreading their investments over a few years. In the end, such a portfolio might yield the angel investor a total return on investment of 25% per year or more. A local network of angels is critical to achieving a diversified portfolio.

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VC Adventure

JULY 23, 2013

I just tweeted about an unfortunate email exchange I just had with a company founder, but 140 characters isn’t enough to really do the matter justice. Update below with the final email in the chain where the entrepreneur apologizes (and talks about some challenges around fundraising that led to his frustration). I need to deal with it.

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Genuine VC

JULY 1, 2014

In every single venture investment I’m involved with here at NextView Ventures, I learn a lot from the Founders of their company. Of course, the kudos go to the Founders and entire TapCommerce team , plus our syndicate coinvestors Bain Capital Ventures, RRE, ENIAC, and Metamorphic. Prioritize the right customers.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the things we frequently discuss with founders is how to interpret and manage their dialogue with VCs when raising capital. The ultimate reference is through a portfolio founder. Work on securing a lead investor who can then help in forming a syndicate.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

This is most clearly highlighted in the “unicorn” boom we all saw over the past few years, where founders raised very large rounds, with terms very onerous to the underlying common stock, hoping they could eventually justify billion dollar valuations to skeptical acquirers or public market investors.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Back in 2015, Google acquired Bebop, a company founded by VMware founder Diane Greene and that’s when Google Hire came to life. Scenario: Imagine that your company has 80 hiring managers and an average of 100 open job listings at any time. Hence, the monthly subscription will be as follows: 80 hiring managers* USD 80 = USD 6400.

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